Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative.
Schools Make Kids Crazy Continue Reading
Antidepressants are being increasingly used in children and adolescents, although they drive some of them to commit suicide and don’t work for them. Even the unborn are being harmed on a large scale. Will this madness ever stop?
Psychiatrists Deny the Harm of Antidepressants for the Fetus Continue Reading
There are good reasons to object to the new Illinois program based on general principles. If sufficient resources are not provided to allow careful and precise identification of children in distress, it has the potential to be a disaster.
Beware Universal Mental Health Screening Continue Reading
Germophobia isn’t generally considered a condition all by itself. Not all people with OCD are germophobes, but it’s much safer to say that most, if not all, germophobes are further along the OCD spectrum than most.
What Makes a Germophobe? Continue Reading
Autism is advertised as a natural divergence. Autism is attributed to a range of causes, from childhood vaccination to the impersonal routines of metropolitan societies. Yet we do not know what autism is.
What Autism Is Continue Reading
Most people hear ‘modern slavery’ and picture trafficking victims or sweatshop workers—suffering that’s clearly visible, obviously wrong. What if the most effective slavery in history isn’t hidden—but public, celebrated, and defended by the very people it enslaves?
The Modern Slave Continue Reading
At a time when psychiatric drug use among children and adolescents continues to rise, Delano’s voice is not just important—it’s essential. Her story gives voice to the many others whose experiences remain silenced or dismissed.
Laura Delano’s Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance Continue Reading
What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness between individual citizens and their understanding of their own bodies.
We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives Continue Reading
Anyone whose life has been touched by emotional, mental, and addiction struggles, particularly of the type that psychiatry has labels and medications for, and maybe of the type that proves ‘treatment resistant,’ will find comfort and insight in this book.
Surviving Psychiatry Continue Reading
We’re not just living in fear—we’re teaching our children that fear is the price of participation in society. And a society built on fear isn’t a society at all. It’s a comfortable prison, one where the guards are ourselves.
The Coward’s Bargain Continue Reading
If Man’s “conquest” of Nature is a one-way ticket to tyranny and finally annihilation, then perhaps what we need is more deference to the Civil, the Human, the Spiritual, and the Supernatural.
From the Sublime to the End of the World Continue Reading
The basketball game ends, but the choice remains: continue consuming the spectacle or step into the authentic life that artificial systems were designed to replace. The exit has always been there—remember that reality exists beyond the dome.
The Bread, the Circus, and the Sugar Water Continue Reading
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