At the Mad in Norway film festival, it struck me that people agreed that mental health needs to be systematically reformed, with more emphasis on psychosocial interventions. The post Didn’t Anyone Tell You It Is Okay to Be Different? appeared first on Mad In America.

Bli med på A Disorder for Everyone! – Online Festival 2026! Fredag 6. november. Ein dag om korleis få til endringsprosessar i eit øydelagt paradigme. The post 6 november: A Disorder for Everyone! – Online Festival 2026 appeared first on Mad in Norway.

Dieser Artikel ermutigt dazu, Schreiben autodidaktisch als bestärkende Ressource zu erfahren. Mir hilft Schreiben in Krisenzeiten, mich emotional zu sortieren und mental zu stärken. Für mein Anfang Oktober erschienenes erzählendes Sachbuch „Endlich entspannt schlafen“ habe ich mich mit täglichem Journaling durch meine schlimmste Schlafkrise und den Benzodiazepin-Entzug hindurchgeschrieben. Damit habe ich therapeutische Effekte maximiert und […]

Editor’s note: this report was first published on Mad in America 3rd October 2026 “If you get rid of pain before you have answered its questions, you get rid of the self along with it.” —Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking, 1975. People come to mental health professionals in pain—the […] The post Getting Rid of the Pain Before Answering Its Questions: Psychiatry’s Damage to Self and Culture appeared first [...]