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One of the best guarded secrets in psychiatry is that antidepressants increase the risk of violence, including suicide and homicide.

It took 13 years, after having denied it at a hearing,1 before the FDA admitted in 2004 in a black box warning, updated in 2006, that children, adolescents and young adults taking antidepressants have an increased risk of suicidal ...


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Warning Label: This true personal account, released 20 years after the fact due to the dreadful incapacitated state in which the events described left the author in, will, taking a highly confrontational approach, no doubt be thought highly offensive to many (especially the perpetrators!). If you cannot tolerate a little salutary poison and malice in your pana...


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Dinesh Bhugra is a leading voice in social and cultural psychiatry. He is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King’s College London and has served as president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the...


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On January 24th, 2023, after months of debilitating insomnia and polypharmacy, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children before attempting to take her own life.  She is currently on trial for their deaths, which her defense attorneys argue resulted from postpartum psychosis.

It may seem strange that I could relate to Lindsay Clancy at all.  I’ve never been pregnant, ...


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Benzodiazepine use is common, with research estimating as many as 12.6% of US adults report past-year use. A 2019 study found signi...


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