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Selma was taken into care as a two-year-old following severe neglect. Both her parents had substance misuse problems. After failed foster care placements, she was placed in a residential children’s home at age eleven. Diagnosed with an attachment disorder when she was fi...
Editor’s note: This story discusses self-harm, suicidal ideation and suicide methods.
“Hi, honey!” My mother’s voice blasted cheerily over the car speaker.
“Hi, Mommy.” I knew I had to tell her. My hands gripped the steering wheel, knuckles turning white.
“So, how’s your day going?”
“Um, fine. I just had an appointment with my psychiatrist...
Thomas Szasz’s The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) is perhaps the most famous critique of psychiatry. Many people, through either their lived experience of being labeled as mentally ill and/or through their critical thinking, agree with Szasz—concurring that it is not only logically false but also damaging to medicalize our emotional difficulties, disruptive behaviors,...
I remember the time I took my very first antidepressant pill. I was just eighteen years old, still in high school, living with my parents. I remember being so nervous as they sat me down at our kitchen table, looking at me with their sad, sorry eyes.
I remember thinking it felt so wrong, expressing concern that it was going to change my personality, numb my emotions, a...