My new article: “The 110-Year ‘Schizophrenia Genetic Research’ Train Wreck.” "The schizophrenia/psychosis causality puzzle pieces will fit together much better once we knock the ‘genetics’ pieces off the table.” www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/the-...

Join us online this Wed to hear Child &Adolescent Psychiatrist Sami Timimi talk about his book ‘Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity’ &his work that challenges the pathologising of emotional distress. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1222883701...

On Love in America by Kermit Cole After I nearly died during open-heart surgery, I realized that there is no room in this second life for anything but gratitude — and love. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/on-l...

Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... #publishers #retractions

Public Citizen, the FDA, and SSRI Safety by Allan Leventhal The safe and effective treatment for depression is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/publ...

So many studies from Iran with red flags. This time a RCT on CBT. No reduction in suicide ideation at all in the control group, same for Beck's hopelessness scale (sometimes referred to as despair, sometimes as hopelessness) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

‘Dismissing the risks and reassuring women that these drugs are ‘safe’ is a paternalistic approach that obscures the central role of the pregnant woman herself’ www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/anti...

Antidepressants in Pregnancy—Turning a Blind Eye, Again by Joanna Moncrieff, MD, and Adam Urato, MD Dismissing the risks and reassuring women that these drugs are ‘safe’ is a paternalistic approach that obscures the role of the pregnant woman in deciding her own medical treatment. buff.ly/AlI3RNB

Not Even the Unborn Are Safe from Psychiatric Harm An MIA Report by Robert Whitaker Medical organizations and the media dismiss the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to antidepressants during pregnancy. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/not-...

We need to act fast to close the NHS artificial intelligence safety gap - an article by Yvette Khozam, published by @digitalhealth2.bsky.social, featured on the hub this today. www.pslhub.org/learn/commis... #patientsafety

"We urge practitioners to treat patient-generated data as a valuable resource. Without this shift, patients with contested illnesses like long Covid risk remaining stuck in a system where they have to be their own doctors." Dr Jayadeva www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...? #LongCovid #PatientAdvocacy

Kein Zusatznutzen von Antidepressiva in der stationären Behandlung einer Depression (eher das Gegenteil!) Wie konträr zur gängigen Praxis! Sehr gutes Interview mit Links zu der bemerkenswerten Studie von Maß. www.depression-heute.de/behandlungse...

This study demonstrates a promising approach to screen for PIP at a population level by applying coding to a large database of health administrative data. Want to help tackle Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP)? Find helpful deprescribing.org resources here: buff.ly/PoE6sPh

Venlafaxine protracted withdrawal diary: never think you're getting better

1/n Our systematic review & meta-analysis on the effect of ketamine/esketamine on suicide ideation/behavior is now out as a preprint. Ketamine/esketamine are considered by some as transforming suicide prevention due to their rapid and large effects. Here's the evidence:

🔎 Is it keeping you safe… or just routine? Our blog on why some safety routines in #Healthcare don't benefit patients is now available to read on @careopinion.org.uk careopinion.org.uk/blogposts/12... #PatientSafety @rebeccalawton.bsky.social

Doctors Who Accept Industry Cash Get More Patient Complaints, Study Finds Physicians paid by drug and device companies are more likely to receive unsolicited complaints, pointing to the corrosive effects of industry influence on care. By Richard Sears www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/doct...

Pro-tip if you seriously messed in a paper: just do nothing, don't reply to emails. Chances are high that nothing will happen. There are no incentives for journal editors or universities to get the records corrected. And even if someone takes action, it may take years until retraction/correction.

Doctors: Patients Don’t Want You to Use AI New survey shows patients will avoid doctors who use AI, considering them less trustworthy, skilled, and empathetic. By Peter Simons www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/doct...

Fully Recovered after Psychosis, Without Antipsychotic Drugs By Peter Simons A new study demonstrates that far more people are able to fully recover from psychosis than typically thought—and that many can do so without antipsychotic drugs. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/full...

Please watch and share this new Australian brief video clip of antidepressant withdrawal. Thank you Melissa youtu.be/0-VLOX-FeCc?...

1. Took a look at this study again bc I am doing a similar study. It's about lithium in drinking water and suicide. below is the scatterplot. The linear model did not produce significant results. But the cubic model did. However, they removed an outlier🚨

1. Our paper on suicides and levels of lithium in Switzerland is now online (open access). It is to our knowledge the first pre-registered study on this topic. We found a near perfect null-result. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

U.K. Crisis Care Model Prioritizes Trauma, Empathy, and Collaboration A new approach known as Comprehend, Cope, and Connect is reshaping mental health crisis with promising early results across inpatient and community settings. By Ashley Bobak, PsyD www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/u-k-...

In 2022, The Sunday Times found that thousands of pregnant women took sodium valproate in a scandal that’s been called worse than thalidomide. Three years on, calls for compensation have been met with silence

Medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) exaggerated while cons downplayed, survey findings suggest | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

"It seems to me only appropriate and necessary for the government to acknowledge unambiguously that compensation is due," says John Glenn MP adding: "There’s a lot of suffering going on here and I’m dismayed by the lateness of any meaningful response. It’s just not good enough.”

New PNAS paper: "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

"It should not take the government this long to respond. Every day’s delay intensifies the harm caused to these patients who have been harmed by the healthcare system" - @pscommissioner.bsky.social

ECT: New Studies Detail Harms, Lack of Efficacy, Lack of Informed Consent - Mad In America www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/ect-...

🗞️Our newsletter is out next week & has a free practice guide: Navigating Discomfort in the Peer Relationship. We'll also share our response to Health, Social Care & Sport Committee pre-budget scrutiny on mental health spending -2026-27. Lots of events too! scottishrecovery.net/newsletter-s...

Patrick Sullivan is a leading psychiatric genetic researcher. Yet his website states, "...specific genes that have a causal role in [schizophrenia] have yet to be identified." 50 years of failed searches for what EF Torrey called a "psychiatric yeti." www.med.unc.edu/genetics/dir...

New survey of hundreds of ECT recipients finds many were not informed about risks and were left with reduced quality of life. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

What saved my life when the hospital discharged me with no hope from my sudden paralysis? Facebook. Networking with my community who helped me find a surgeon who fixed me. Connecting with others who had the same diagnosis and recovered. *They* want online communities to go away. We can’t let them go

Cochrane Recommends Antidepressants for Anxiety in a Garbage In, Garbage Out Review By Peter Gøtzsche madintheuk.com/2025/08/coch... #CochraneReview #Antidepressants #Psychiatry #MentalHealthScience #BigPharmaInfluence #MedicalCorruption #AntidepressantHarms #PsychiatricDrugHarm

Narrative Reclamation: Who’s Allowed to Tell Their Story? by Jasmine Marshall Narratives have the power to lock us up—sometimes literally. But they also have the power to set us free. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/narr...

Medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) exaggerated while cons downplayed, survey findings suggest | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

How an Ecological View of Mind Could Rewrite Psychology and Psychiatry Researchers propose an ecological view of mind that challenges brain-bound theories and the machine metaphors shaping research and self-understanding. By Justin Karter www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/how-...

Cannabinoids Linked to Worse Psychosis Outcomes in Longitudinal Study While synthetic cannabinoids worsened psychosis outcomes, even natural cannabis was associated with long-term emotional blunting and dissociation. By Richard Sears - www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/cann...

A new study, based on an analysis of thousands of publications and their authors and editors, shows paper mills are just part of a complex, interconnected system that includes publishers, journals, and brokers. scim.ag/3H9kwwQ

Peer Supporters practice exchange 16 September, Glasgow Join us, DVVA, Bipolar Scotland & Neil's Hugs Foundation to deepen your practice & connect with other Peer Supporters as together we build a thriving peer support community across the country! peersupporterspracticeexchange.eventbrite.co.uk

I posted something on PubPeer pubpeer.com/publications...

Thousands of Danes have just found out that their genetic data has been used in research for more than a decade, without their consent. Great reporting from @inampudi.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Oh, doesn't look good for established warning signs for suicide. This isn't the first study showing that these warning signs, developed by expert consensus, are poorly associated with near-term suicidal behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Forced Hospitalization Increases Suicide and Violent Crime Proponents claim involuntary treatment is necessary to reduce suicide and crime, but new research shows that it actually doubles the risk of these outcomes. By Peter Simons www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/forc...

Behavioral activation was more effective than sertraline in the reduction of suicide ideation in this RCT. However, I've seen so many problematic studies in this journal that I have lost trust. Effect size is about SMD 1.1 at 4 weeks (too good to be true?).

Forced Hospitalization Increases Suicide and Violent Crime by Peter Simons Proponents claim involuntary treatment is necessary to reduce suicide and crime, but new research shows that it actually doubles the risk of these outcomes. buff.ly/LRB5tUt

Worth reading if you are a healthcare professional who prescribes psychiatric drugs, or a patient who wants to stop taking them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...