The Mirror
It was rage, I can see now, that seemed the best means of self-protection. Like a siren song, rage beckoned me: Shoot me at them so they can’t control you anymore. I’ll keep you safe. I’ll protect you.
Silence and Sovereignty
Could there be a better way of subverting that traditional link between music and healing than by replacing it with a simulacrum of the same and to habituate people to elite-supplied assaults on their physical integrity in the name of health?
Schools Make Kids Crazy
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative.
Psychiatrists Deny the Harm of Antidepressants for the Fetus
Antidepressants are being increasingly used in children and adolescents, although they drive some of them to commit suicide and don’t work for them. Even the unborn are being harmed on a large scale. Will this madness ever stop?
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Beware Universal Mental Health Screening
There are good reasons to object to the new Illinois program based on general principles. If sufficient resources are not provided to allow careful and precise identification of children in distress, it has the potential to be a disaster.
What Makes a Germophobe?
Germophobia isn’t generally considered a condition all by itself. Not all people with OCD are germophobes, but it’s much safer to say that most, if not all, germophobes are further along the OCD spectrum than most.
What Autism Is
Autism is advertised as a natural divergence. Autism is attributed to a range of causes, from childhood vaccination to the impersonal routines of metropolitan societies. Yet we do not know what autism is.
The Modern Slave
Most people hear ‘modern slavery’ and picture trafficking victims or sweatshop workers—suffering that’s clearly visible, obviously wrong. What if the most effective slavery in history isn’t hidden—but public, celebrated, and defended by the very people it enslaves?
Laura Delano’s Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
At a time when psychiatric drug use among children and adolescents continues to rise, Delano’s voice is not just important—it’s essential. Her story gives voice to the many others whose experiences remain silenced or dismissed.
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We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives
What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness between individual citizens and their understanding of their own bodies.
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Surviving Psychiatry
Anyone whose life has been touched by emotional, mental, and addiction struggles, particularly of the type that psychiatry has labels and medications for, and maybe of the type that proves ‘treatment resistant,’ will find comfort and insight in this book.
The Coward’s Bargain
We’re not just living in fear—we’re teaching our children that fear is the price of participation in society. And a society built on fear isn’t a society at all. It’s a comfortable prison, one where the guards are ourselves.