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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

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Laura is clear in her message: we’ve been told a story for decades: that mental illness is the result of a “chemical imbalance,” and “lifelong brain disorders. Laura and I were born right around the same time. She and I were also diagnosed with bipolar, right around the same time in the ‘90s.

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Are We Sober Yet?

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M y sobriety ended when I was fifteen years old. The first drug I ever took was Lexapro. I was an angry young man growing up, and Lexapro took my anger from me. My second drug was alcohol, years after Lexapro became part of my daily diet. To this day, I can remember staring at the cold can of Coors Light in disbelief at how good it made me feel.

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

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T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. On ce a healthy young man preparing for college, he seemed to be escaping his own body.

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A Mad Perspective on IFS Training

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On day one of this sixteen-week course, I hoped that this popular methodology, Internal Family Systems, might be the answer to addressing my own complex trauma. On day one of this sixteen-week course, I hoped that this popular methodology, Internal Family Systems, might be the answer to addressing my own complex trauma.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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The real question is whether the “brighter future” is always so distant. When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health. Yet these things are not acts of God.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

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Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

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To be a doctor aiming to practice the art of healing is almost impossible today due to the power of big pharma and insurance companies. Psychiatric medications serve to suppress and disempower individuals from claiming and digesting their own traumas and global sufferings. Is it not our responsibility to look deeper and ask, “Why?”