Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

S omeone asked me the other day: but what has changed in terms of psychiatric treatment in twenty years? I can reflect on this question because I have been dealing with the psychiatric system for a long time. I got my first psychosis twenty years ago, and they came back every couple of years until two and a half years ago, when I finally met a brilliant psychiatrist who found me a medication that seems to keep me stable, without any side-effects.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Joey Marino, an actor on the 90’s television show ER who developed a horrific case of tardive dyskinesia after being prescribed Seroquel for anxiety, passed away on January 14th. In 2021, he had published a poem called “ Bedridden ” on Mad in America, and a video of him was included in Peter Gotzsche’s blog “ Psychiatry’s Denial of the Horrors of Tardive Dyskinesia. ” Another video posted to the Coalition to End Psychiatric Harm YouTube channel shows Joey stru

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Hospitality 144