Recent research from across the world has found that stigma towards people with mental health diagnoses is either increasing ...
This week, Mad in America examines three studies around mental health diagnosis, psychotropic drug use, obesity, and diabetes ...
My wife died ten months ago. In another two months, I will have a new mental disorder: “Prolonged Grief Disorder.” ...
There is such a thing as mental health, but it is not the same for everyone. It is a subjective good that depends on a person’s own standards.
Hundreds of mental health professionals left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office. “This ...
From CounterPunch by Bruce E Levine: "Until recently, the predominant life pains that I have long seen in my psychologist day job include: abusive and ...
Big Tobacco drafted the plays that Big Tech is enacting today: manipulating public opinion by partnering with the medical field.
I fought mentally with myself and was afraid of the future. In the clinic I was diagnosed with moderate depression, whereupon I was given the medication a few days later.
Research shows that coercion in psychiatry is common, with some experts calling it a near universal standard practice. Both academic literature and the A new Japanese study finds that informal ...
Ph.D., is a staff psychologist at Eastern Michigan University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Audrey has a clinical focus on serving the needs of autistic college students and co-authored a ...
It is common parlance to talk about psychiatric diagnoses as if they were something that existed in nature, like dogs and bacteria, that can attack us. As this reification has many harmful ...