Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, Larisa Svirsky and I are happy to invite you to the online workshop "Radical and Critical Approaches to Mental Health II" (Sept 20th, 2024, on Zoom) With support of CRÉ, C4E, and CRC-IAE Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Here’s what I actually think. (vs what is attributed to me by some psychiatrists on X) Fighting for the Meaning of Madness: An Interview with Dr. John Read madinamerica.com/2019/05/an-int…

#olderadults are major target for inappropriate harming #medication , by #drug brokers w/ an MD license #health #safety #marketing --- The cost of potentially inappropriate medications for older adults in Canada: A comparative cross-sectional study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39235969/

New poem on the site today - thanks to the author: Being a whole some, sum madinireland.com/2024/09/being-… via Mad In Ireland

Do depression pills improve quality of life? From Mad In America madinamerica.com/2024/09/do-dep…

Recovery from psychosis is possible - from Mad In America madinamerica.com/2024/09/recove…

🚨 People "prescribed amphetamines like Adderall had higher odds of having mania or psychosis within a month of using the medication." (I've changed the word patient to people.) The findings were published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Sadly, what probably happens to these people is yet another diagnosis and potentially more meds. Many (most?) prescribers do not recognise the adverse effects of drugs, especially when it comes to mania and psychosis.

Really great to have @blefrancois.bsky.social with us in Cork for a discussion on Mad Studies and an Ethics of unruliness. Plenty of engagement and thought provoking questions ISS21 @UCCsocialwork AppliedSocialStudies MadStudiesNetwork Mad In Ireland Memorial University School of Social Work

Listening to lived experience is so important, especially when labels are so damaging: "‘Paranoid schizophrenic’ is not a very nice label to have on one’s head." madinireland.com/2024/09/notes-…

In my opinion, in the area of mental health, we talk too much about disorders and not enough about recovery and freedom madinireland.com/2024/08/disord… via Mad In Ireland #mentalhealth #recoverytwt

Brilliant paper from Zoey Lavallee Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien McGill University “In this paper, we will argue that biomedical conceptual frameworks that pathologise norm-deviating emotions can, in fact, be a source of injustice...