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In the coming months, Mad in Brasil will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche's book, Manual of Critical Psychiatry. In this blog, he discusses the lack of evidence of benefit and evidence of harm for psychosis drugs used in early intervention or first-episode psychosis. Every fortnight, a new section of the book will be published and all chapters are archived here .
“Disturbed” I feel, seeing not just a woman but a “person”. Acceptance is important If not, equality remains, remains an empty word.
The chemical imbalance theory of depression – what was once considered the gold standard reason for why people take antidepressants, was, apparently, ‘a figure of speech’.
"I am slowly but surely learning to remove the extra weight in my suitcase. Courageous and strong work is what my psychologist calls it, I agree. I'm a mess of emotions, but I agree, I'm brave and strong."
I am a "cloud catcher" because if I hadn't had the dream of imagining myself "different", I wouldn't have survived. I remember the words of a doctor who said: “Everyone is born only if dreamed”. And so I did.