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I present a middle ground on antidepressant withdrawal, where both sides are understood to have origins in wanting to help people.

Written testimony submitted to the Connecticut State Legislature in opposition to a bill removing legal protections against forced ECT.

This week on MIA Radio we present the second part of our podcast to join in the events for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020.

Calgarys Dr. Eddy Lang said overdiagnosis is a pervasive problem in mental health treatment across the world.

May is mental health awareness month. Today we're exploring how psychiatric medications are prescribed in the United States and the process of informed consent. When can medication help in a mental health crisis? When can medication create worse outcomes to that mental health crisis? And when should those medications really not be prescribed at all?

Mad in México, which launched in September of last year, exists to make “los abandonados” heard. It aims to amplify those voices.

Medicating Normal speaks with the psychology professor and chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal on topics from deprescribing to attachment.

Stefania Di Cio Family-run Genesis cinema in Whitechapel - Credit: Stefania Di Cio A Whitechapel cinema is one of the many indoor entertainment venues which have reopened in England as the lockdown measures ease. Family-run Genesis cinema in Whitechapel, voted number one in TimeOut’s 25 best cinemas in London, is one of the many venues which will welcome audiences back in east London. The cinema has been showing independent films for more than 20 years – although the site has been used fo...

The Facts: UCLA Professor David Cohen explains how there is zero evidence that antidepressant medications work in the long term and calls out the relationship between big pharma and big politics as a cause for the lack of long term studies. Reflect On: Why is there so much focus on medication as the only solution for depression when many studies show they are not only ineffective, but can also be harmful and dangerous. Why arent other holistic/natural alternatives explored? Before you begin... ...