How much of your brain’s target receptors are still blocked at “low” doses of antidepressants and antipsychotics? Here’s what receptor occupancy studies show: •Duloxetine 5 mg → up to 44% of receptors blocked •Venlafaxine 2.4 mg → up to 34% of receptors blocked •Sertraline

Safety Alerts Rarely Change How Doctors Prescribe In a review of 23 studies, most interventions showed only modest improvements in prescriber behavior, with some reporting up to 85% inappropriate prescriptions despite safety alerts. By Richard Sears madinamerica.com/2025/08/safety…

Largest ever survey of ECT recipients shows many are not warned of risks and suffer life-long harms thetimes.com/article/b75a2c…

Love this. How it should be

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.” madinamerica.com/2025/08/the-11…

Psychosis Severity Tied to Childhood Trauma, Not Inherited Mental Illness A cross-national study shows trauma’s lasting impact on psychosis is not explained by parental mental illness. By Richard Sears madinamerica.com/2025/09/psycho…

Whitaker's report with incisive comments from Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche "Even the unborn are being harmed on a large scale. Will this madness ever stop?" brownstone.org/articles/psych…

Adolescence is a time of struggle and change don't interrupt that process by making it a psychiatric problem instagram.com/reel/DOquoc6Cj…

Looking forward to read Dr Sami Tmimi's latest book

Good to see these issues on the news given so many people are affected around the country. Anders Sørensen always clear and compelling

The description of this book from Jonanna is exactly how I remember psychiatric wards. People numbed, ignored, staff fearful of patients 'illness'. With occasionally one patient having good effect from medication, then stuck taking it. psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/chemic…

Well said Sami

This is Leo Macallan, a TikToker with almost a million followers who transitioned from female to male over ten years ago. “People always ask me when did you know you were transgender, I knew I was transgender all along, there’s a difference between knowing and having the courage

Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey by Lisa Morrison The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective. madinamerica.com/2025/11/women-…

Mental health services should help people heal and move forward — not stay stuck in the system. But with today’s diagnostic culture, we’re unintentionally creating long-term patients instead of empowering people to reclaim their lives. @beckyspelman instagram.com/reel/DRFiSMAin…

In this powerful conversation, we discuss the truth behind today’s mental health system — why so many children are being psychiatrically diagnosed, and how medication can sometimes make things worse instead of better. Dr. Becky Spelman youtu.be/W67yzDW-Otk

How Mental Health Ideology Perpetuates a War on Emotions By Sami Timimi MD madintheuk.com/2025/12/how-me… #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #EmotionMatters #RethinkingMentalHealth #CriticalPsychiatry

How not to diagnose your child By MITUK admin madintheuk.com/2025/12/how-no… #MentalHealth #Neurodiversity #ChildDevelopment #DisabilityDiscourse #PowerAndIdentity #Psychology

Anyone involved in psychotherapy must read this fantastic article. For me, it was the best piece (published in the media) on relational psychotherapy in 2025. Drawing the link between Rogers & Winnicott was long overdue - James Barnes MSc., MA does a brilliant job tapmagazine.org/all-articles/c…

Case Studies Contradict Accepted Wisdom About AI Psychosis By Peter Simons Many of those who experience AI psychosis have no psychiatric diagnosis, but were experiencing social and environmental stressors, isolation, and lack of sleep. madinamerica.com/2026/01/case-s…