How to Find a Mental Health Provider That’s Right for You
Here are some questions to consider when searching for a mental health provider—one that will respect you as an individual and look for root causes of illness.
Lingering Side Effects of Quitting Antidepressants
After quitting antidepressants four years ago, Jane finally has her life back. She shares her strategies for managing the lingering side effects.
Antidepressant-Induced Mania: When My Mind Became a Literal Hell
A prescription to antidepressant drugs turned a young man's grief-induced depression into years of anxiety, disconnected thoughts and suicide ideations.
Broken Is Not All I’ll Ever Be: Military Veterans and Psychiatric Drugs
A military veteran shares his experience of how psychiatric drugs were causing irreparable harm and leading him on a path to death.
Talking About Psych Diagnoses and Drugs: A Primer for Parents & Professionals
Parents have a right to know the truth about psychiatric diagnoses and psychotropic drugs, as well as alternative approaches that may help their child.
For the Record—A story of a life changed by benzodiazepines
A personal account of how one woman's life was changed by a careless prescription for Xanax and her long road to recovery.
Study Shows ADHD Drugs Alter Developing Brain
This study provides evidence that the use of ‘ADHD’ drugs in children can alter the brain’s development in significant and potentially lasting ways. The long-term consequences remain to be established.
Auburn Journal Features Story on Beautiful Minds Event
Auburn Journal Features Story on Beautiful Minds By the Editor "About two hundred people came to the State Theatre Dec. 4, for a special event designed to encourage those struggling with mental illness," states the Auburn Journal in an article featuring our recent community program. "Beautiful Minds Wellness, a nonprofit that promotes mental
Do Antidepressants Work?
Do Antidepressants Work? By Robert Whitaker In late February, newspapers in the UK and elsewhere announced that a new meta-analysis published in Lancet had proven, once and for all, that “antidepressants work.” The lead author of the paper, Andrea Cipriani, and other psychiatrists from the Royal College of Psychiatry in the UK, declared that this was a definitive study, and that
Psychiatric Drugs and Spirituality
Psychiatric Drugs and Spirituality Editor I have never met this psychiatrist, but I already love him! This talk is so powerful, heartfelt and full of love and good sense. I hope it blesses you as it has me. Every counselor, therapist, provider, patient and person that cares about spreading love should take the