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Every time that headline appears — “Over one billion people worldwide live with a mental disorder”  (WHO, 2025) - I feel something close to rage. Not because people aren’t hurting. They are. But because this headline turns human suffering into a neat, sellable crisis — a story that just happens to benefit all the right industries. It treats pain like a commodity. It treats fear like a funding strategy. It treats humanity like a diagnosis. And I’m exhausted by it. 1. The worl

When did we decide that being human is a disease? Seems to me about 20 years ago. Every mood, every quirk, every hard season—now stamped...

In working in the human service field for over 25 years, I have seen this happen 100s and 100s of times to people who deserve to live...

Let's not pretend anymore that the mental health system is one of healing. It isn't. It is one of profit. And if you ever do start...

We've been told for decades a straight-up lie: depression is caused by a "chemical imbalance" in the brain—a low level of serotonin....

They Rarely Warn People of the Horrible Side Effects of Prolonged Antipsychotic Use. You go in for help. You’re struggling—maybe with...

We're drugging children to fit into classes, not to help them thrive as human beings. We don't design schools for movement, for...

Does mental health medication work? For most people, the answer is NO! Certainly not in the way we have been told they do. Let’s get one...

Let’s stop pretending. The mental health system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as it was designed: to medicalize suffering, profit off...

When we talk about homelessness, addiction, or mental illness, the conversation often centers around what we can see—substance use, lack...

Let's stop sugarcoating it. Let’s talk about the modern mental health system. Not the glossy brochures. Not the polished websites. I’m...

Depression Isn’t Just in Your Head — It’s in Your Life: What Johann Hari Gets Right We’re often told that depression is a chemical...

Let’s stop pretending. Let’s stop nodding along with the lie that antidepressants are the magic bullet for depression. Because they’re...

In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association made a quiet but brutal change: it removed the bereavement exclusion from the DSM-5. This...

When we talk about medications for psychosis, we usually hear the word antipsychotics . But the older and more accurate term —...

Bring the term " neurotic " back! We’ve pathologized every single human emotion under the sun and called it mental illness . You're e not...

Let's cut the b*llshit: America has a mental health problem, but it's not about untreated illness — it's about overdiagnosis ,...