Established drugs were repurposed, “me-too” drugs were approved, and even the few new biological approaches lacked clinical ...

ADHD diagnosis, which largely originated in the United States, began to spread to the rest of the globe in the late 1990s, ...

Ideally, there would be publicly funded voluntary respite services for people experiencing psychosis and other forms of ...

Refusal to take clozapine was considered evidence of mental illness, and forced ECT changed her mind; the researchers call ...

I am now almost completely released from the traditional mental health system, but as a paid peer worker I come back in five ...

Critical psychiatry should continue to point out where mainstream psychiatry falls short, but mainstream psychiatry must correct itself.

This week, Mad in America examines research around increased suicide risk in children and adolescents related to bullying in ...

The idea that the FDA black box warning led to increased suicide is just as easily refuted by the data now as when it was ...

Medical trainees using chatbots to do their homework and write their papers will not develop the skills needed to be a ...

Lala Buckstar This week's Song of the Week is suggested by Lara Buckley (Lala Buckstar), who writes: "I am a musician and ...

My daughter, London, was only 12 years old when she tragically died from an overdose of pills, shortly after being prescribed an SSRI.

For a person, the knowledge that their “illness is so severe that conventional treatment will not help” can of course be ...