The Keto Diet + Drug Tapering: What Are the Possibilities? by Robert Whitaker The Accord program in Arlington, Massachusetts will provide a test of whether an intensive ketogenic program, when combined with drug-tapering support, can lead to robust recovery over the long term.

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When Hardship Becomes “Mental Illness” by Richard Sears Three new studies show how poverty, unsafe neighborhoods, and insecure work translate structural inequality into psychological distress, depression, and suicide risk.

Mad in the World Update from Mad in Mexico: In this article, Luis Arroyo had the opportunity to talk with Santiago Esteinou, director of the A Woman of the Stars and Mountains. Santiago shares about his experience in the making of the film. Browser translations availalbe. #madfilms

Mad in Norway is hosting an international film festival from 9/24-9/26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, MIA will feature a film. This week is Trapped by the Mirror. In this short film is about Heidi who has put her ballet career is behind her after developing an eating disorder.

Forty-two Days on a Finnish Psychiatric Ward by Miro Sulkumäki I can not say for sure at what point I finally realised that I was a patient in a mental hospital.

Mad in the World Update from Mad in the UK: There was no stage, no formal programme, no infrastructure. Just people who had been affected, directly or indirectly, by prescribed medication and who felt that something important was missing from public conversation. #madintheworld buff.ly/3Mscj4i

On our #podcast we are joined by Beatrice Birch, Founder and Director of Inner Fire, a residential program in rural Vermont that provides support for tapering from medications, including antipsychotics, an essential aspect of the therapy.

Four Thousand Years of Trauma, 45 Years of Diagnosis—Why Call a Fully Human Reaction a “Disorder”? by Walter Paganin The implicit assumption behind every diagnostic manual is that the history of interpretive errors has ended. Historical analysis suggests something very different.

With Veterans Demanding Action, Bipartisan Support Emerges for Written Informed Consent Bill by Leah Harris The bill seeks to expand the VA’s written informed consent protocol to a range of drugs, including antipsychotics, stimulants, antidepressants, and anxiolytics.

Mad in the World Update from Mad in Deutschland: Anyone who talks about fundamental rights should not overlook psychiatry. It is precisely here that the state and institutions intervene deeply in people's lives. Browser translation are available. #madintheworld buff.ly/RpaESNA

Justin Garson joins us on the MIA #podcast and we get to talk about his latest book - The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia. youtu.be/XR8Xpy5fBaY?...

Candidate Chris Bennett Supports Abolishing Forced Psychiatry: A Breakthrough for Mad Liberation? By Will Hall What if the upcoming midterm election for the first time sends a politician to Washington who is publicly on record against forced psychiatry? buff.ly/hfHrVH2

Mad in the World Update from Mad in Slovenia: Serotonin is a signaling molecule that plays an important role in the brain, while in the gut it participates in regulating digestion. Browser translations are available. #madintheworld

Remembering Brent Dean Robbins By Justin Karter Brent was a major figure in humanistic psychology and one of the field’s clearest voices against the DSM’s narrowing of human suffering and the over-medication of distress.

The Digital Mental Health Paradox By Richard Sears Evidence links screen use to mental health symptoms, yet more people are turning to AI for relief. buff.ly/iaGPxk7

Not Serotonin Deficiency: A Veteran’s Story of Misdiagnosis and Medication Harm by Holly Bowen Over time, my health began to decline on the medication in ways that were difficult to explain. In retrospect, I am convinced that I had a mild form of serotonin syndrome.

Mad in the World Update from Mad in Puerto Rico: The people interviewed in this report that the working conditions within prisons are devastating and that the level of trauma to which they are exposed is substantial. Browser translations available. #madintheworld

AI-Driven Healthcare—A Little Easier for Doctors, and a Little Worse for Patients by Peter Simons on the Mad in America Substack AI is primed to save doctors a few minutes of thinking every day, at the price of worse patient care. buff.ly/LvaCjXy

How did acid heads and speed freaks help shape biological psychiatry? Find out in our #podcast interview with Justin Garson, author of The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia. #psychosis #mentalhealth #psychiatry Full interview: www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/the-...

“It Was Like They Crushed a Beautiful Flower”: Families Speak Out on the Harms of ECT By Richard Sears A new international study finds most relatives report no improvement in symptoms and diminished quality of life after electroconvulsive therapy. buff.ly/speheca

Mad in the World Update from Mad in Brasil: Initially considered almost free of side effects, post-marketing data indicate a high prevalence sexual dysfunction in antidepressant use. #madintheworld

From Hyde Park, London, to a Global Movement: Marking Stolen Lives on Prescribed Harm Day By Katinka Blackford Newman What started in Hyde Park has resonated far beyond one city. buff.ly/ejfy6O5

Song of the Week: They Won’t Let My Girlfriend Talk To Me by Jimmy and The Boys

Poem of the Week: The Four Horsemen of the Medical Industrial Complex by David Penner buff.ly/oGiHx9J

Featured Artwork: The Pill Cutter by Deathproof buff.ly/gXvWNIh

What I’ve Learned from My Son’s Unusual Mental States By Laurie Coker Altered mental states can be deeply comforting, especially when you are surprised by them in your sleep. And an experience within a dream can be especially revealing. buff.ly/eV3MokS

Mad in the World Update from Locura en Argentina: In this article, Bernabé De Vinsenci, reflects on “becoming ostracism” to rethink the meaning of the “pathological.” #madinamerica

The Madness Pill: One Doctor’s Quest to Understand Schizophrenia By Justin Garson Sol Snyder is the most influential living neuroscientist in the world. Yet he is almost unknown outside of scientific circles. www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/the-...

Mad in the World Update from Mad in South Asia: Through her story, Rinku brings out how the unconscious social and caste based references, often disguised as jokes, are internalised. #madintheworld @madinsouthasia

Mad in America affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. For the next few months, we will be posting trailers of some of the films that will be shown. This week is the film, The Dance Club. #madinnorwayfilmfest buff.ly/QzWH9uZ

Psychiatric Coercion Results in Overmedication and Lower Perceived Quality of Care By Richard Sears Evidence from three studies highlights excessive medication, coercive practices, and a pilot program that reduces psychiatric detention resulting from emergency calls. buff.ly/uQrVZIY

Desperate Cries for Help and the Copper Toxicity Doctors Missed by Deb Tokarz

On our #podcast, Brooke Siem is joined by Kelsey Osgood, author of How to Disappear Completely: on Modern Anorexia. They talk about this and her latest book Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion. #anorexia #religion www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/kels...

Mad in the World Update from Mad in Ireland: An introduction to MindFreedom in Ireland and their involvement in community development networks that promote mental and emotional wellbeing and socially reintegrate those who are marginalised by the psychiatric system. #madintheworld buff.ly/nRus2k6

Which Would You Prefer: Electroshock or a Safe Taper? By Jennifer Giordano I want to tell you a true story about how a man in his seventies could get diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder he never had before, prescribed more and more drugs that didn’t work, and end up facing ECT. buff.ly/WV3I2Gk

From Mad in Ireland - @tcddublin.bsky.social researchers talk tapering from psychiatric meds madinireland.com/2026/04/podc...

Auvelity Reveals the Hypocrisy of Big Pharma, the FDA, and Psychiatry by Peter Simons on the Mad in America Substack So now we’re admitting one of the most popular antidepressants is ineffective, but only because they’re selling a new version mixed with cough syrup? buff.ly/FH7GvK4

Mad in the World Update From Mad in Denmark: Psychiatry must be the only "service" in the world that has no interest in what its "customers" think of the "treatment" they receive. buff.ly/TomFK4s #madintheworld

After Disasters, Do Mental Health Interventions Actually Help? By Richard Sears A new meta-analysis finds little evidence that post-disaster psychological interventions prevent PTSD or depression, raising questions about their effectiveness and cultural impact. www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/afte...

Human Rights Violations in Psychiatry By Laura López-Aybar You’re finally admitted, the clothes they brought you feel foreign to you, someone else chose them for you, or they were bought to meet hospital standards. They’re not the ones you would ever choose, but you have no choice. buff.ly/cuq5Ipw

Mad in the World update from Mad in Italy: The story that follows is neither a curriculum vitae nor an autobiography in the traditional sense. It is an attempt to give shape to a life journey marked by diagnoses, and struggles for survival.

Our Mad in America affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. For the next few months, we will be posting trailers of some of the films that will be shown. This week we take a look at The Happy Pill. buff.ly/nOLLrtG

New Research Links Psychotropic Drugs to Heart and Pancreatic Risks While Keto Diet Shows Promise for Depression By Richard Sears New evidence fuels debate over whether mental health treatment should move beyond medication. www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/new-...

Initiation or Psychosis? My Descent Into the Underworld by Symone Carroll The state was luminous and loving. In it, I received a simple message: From now on, you will enter the underworlds and you will remember.

Today on the MIA #podcast Prateeksha Sharma reflects on her experience of recovery from psychosis, sheds lights on the treatment harms that often go unnamed and thus unnoticed, and discusses how to claim narrative, dignity, and voice. Full interview: www.madinamerica.com/2026/04/ever...

Mad in the World update from Mad in Finland: The panel discussion will consider, among other things, to what extent insensitivity can be considered an objective truth about a person’s condition...

New Evidence for Esketamine’s Efficacy—Only It’s Not New, and Not Evidence of Efficacy by Peter Simons on the Mad in America Substack buff.ly/osUDaGm

Mad in the World update from Mad in the Netherlands: Dr. Jess investigates the decline of the DSM and the strategies that she says will be used to make the field seem 'more scientific.’ Translation tools available.