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Time to Change Our Vision of Mental Healthcare

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Emma Bragdon

Current Trends in Mental Healthcare Robert Whitaker (above) is an award-winning journalist, most well-known for his impeccably referenced, breakthrough book, Anatomy of an Epidemic. In it he describes the harm of taking psychiatric medications long term, something that you would not see in ads from Big Pharma that proliferate the media. John Horgan recently published

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health adverse childhood experiences, cause of mental illness, dainius puras, heaing voices, john horgan, mental health, open dialogue, psychiatric times, Robert Whitaker, scientific american, soteria house

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality