Mad in America

From CBC News. “Elements of British Columbia’s involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person’s capacity to make health care decisions, are unconstitutional, the B.C. Supreme Court has ruled.

In a decision published Thursday, Justice Lauren Blake ruled provisions in the Mental Health Act violated both patients’ Canadian...

Hello, my name is J.E. I’m almost 50 years old and I have struggled with OCD since around the age of nine, and I have also been diagnosed with C-PTSD.

My first memory of OCD symptoms, at the age of nine, was a painful memory about how we moved into this apartment after losing my mother. I specifically remember not being able to walk barefoot on the carpet in our apartm...

Marianne Apostolides is the award-winning author of eight books, four of which have been translated and published internationally. She is a two-time recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and winner of the K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Her books include

As you will see in this article, antidepressants don’t work for depression despite their misleading name.

The story psychiatric leaders have told to the public is the opposite, that these drugs are highly effective. I shall debunk this claim and give advice about the drugs that is in accordance with the science.

Last March, a group of beaming politicians with shovels posed for a photo-op at a ground breaking ceremony on the 110-year-old campus of Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California. Governor Gavin Newsom had signed