What Autism Is Not
Appreciation of structures and arrangements requires precisely the same baseline aptitude that is required by appreciation of thoughts and feelings – and it is this baseline aptitude that autistic people lack.
The Sacramental Underpinnings of Vaccine Culture
One of the pernicious conceits of our age is the idea that by declaring oneself irreligious, one is immediately freed from the longings for transcendence that have fueled religious practice among humans since the beginning of our experience here on earth.
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Why Lawsuits about Psychiatric Malpractice Are Difficult to Win
We must systematically educate lawyers and judges so that they can rule fairly in lawsuits related to psychiatry. Judge Picard’s biases and lack of courage in this verdict were one of the causal factors that led to Nathalie’s suicide.
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The Hidden Cost of Mental Health Parity
Parity’s intentions were compassionate. Its effects are corrosive. The answer is not cruelty but correction: fund recovery, not lifelong maintenance; support communities, not bureaucracies; reward healing, not helplessness. Addiction is a detour, not a destiny.
To Yearn for Sincerity Amidst Doubts
A population filled with defensive, hyper-sensitive, and fear-corseted young is the tyrant class’s fondest dream. One made up of young people possessed of a sense of their essential worthiness is that same group’s biggest nightmare.
Antidepressants Increase 130% for Teen Girls, Drop 7% For Boys
Every teenage girl convinced that her emotions are symptoms is being severed from power that terrifies those who would control us. Every dose of SSRIs is a vote for a world where human intuition is replaced by expert opinion.
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Hysteria Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
The big mistake of so-called rational thinking is consistently underestimating the power of people’s need to believe in something transcendent of what they, at one point or another in their life, come to realize is their own cosmic insignificance.
The Pandemic of Fake Psychiatric Diagnoses
Like me, Sami is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in England. My experience with lecturing for psychiatrists has led me to believe that over 99% of psychiatrists are uncritical towards their practice.
The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees
In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not approved of by some significant minority of the population. But Charlie’s murder does not feel like that.
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Pharma’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
The Nobel Prize narrative is not a harmless compliment. It is a calculated effort to sanctify one remaining pillar, while the others collapse beneath the evidence. If the vaccines “saved millions,” then all else can be forgiven or forgotten.
The Only Medical Specialty That Survives on Lies
My advice to patients is: If you have a mental health issue, don’t see a psychiatrist. It is too dangerous and might turn out to be the biggest error you made in your entire life. Don’t look up a family doctor either, as they are also programmed to make psychiatric diagnoses and hand out psychiatric pills.
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My First Therapist
In an instant, control of my life’s narrative was ripped from my grasp. After a childhood fueled by an abiding commitment to honesty, I walked numbly to unlock the door and face their concerned looks.