Category: Nonfiction Essay
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Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor
There is one thing about having been a “delinquent” teen, or a “freak” as we called ourselves, in the chaos of the early 90s…
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Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity
I lost a poem once, and I mourned it for many years. But, one day my grief became a map, and with it I…
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Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the Impact of New Serotonin Study
By Karin Jervert and Marnie Wedlake Loss, grief, and a sense of betrayal are felt deeply by many who have been affected by the…
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The Song of Psychiatry: The Impact of Language
As a young woman, I believed the story I was told and internalized the language of the psychiatric system. The story it told, the…
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What We Have Always Known but Psychiatry Forgot
When I came off my last medication, my psychiatrist said to me, “You will get sick again.” Psychiatry has always been sure of one…
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Radical Acts of Community Healing and Self-Love
One thing has remained true for me as I’ve reflected on my journey into and out of the psychiatric system. My society—the education system,…
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Sound After Psychiatry
When Kim Wichera asked me to be on a panel co-sponsored by SoundsAbout Gallery and CTM Festival on the theme of sound and psychiatry, I immediately understood the potential of…
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Burning Down the House of Psychiatry During COVID
If there was ever a time to re-evaluate how we as a society deal with human suffering, I assure you, it is now. The…
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Surviving the Bipolar Label
I am a woman who fully identified with the label bipolar for almost 20 years and, according to psychiatry, rightfully earned it with four…
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De-Weaponizing Empathy
As published in Mad in America I am not immune to what I call weaponized empathy, which I see as the pure intention of…
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Can We Allow Suffering?
As published on Mad in America Of all the labels placed on me throughout my 20 years as a consumer in the psychiatric industry,…