Personality disorders Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
MAY 12, 2025
It was written by David Hansen, a crisis worker at a person-centred, survivor-led mental health crisis service. I have tasked myself with mapping out my understanding of how therapy and mental health relate to politics. Mental health is also political. Is therapy political? Of course it is.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
Perhaps if I took a different prescription or combination of prescriptions, my brain would magically adjust and rid me of my alleged ‘chemical imbalance’. I had been diagnosed with numerous ‘disorders’ because I had a traumatic childhood. Throughout the decades of consuming psychiatric medications, my mind and body slowly deteriorated.
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