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What It Was Like Being a Test Subject in One of the Earliest LSD Experiments

#mentalillness | The LSD research was initially tasked to find a cause and a cure for schizophrenia, although schizophrenic patients were not given dosages. Instead, Parley said doctors and nurses took the drug in order to feel what it was like to have hallucinations that could lead to more empathy or even, possibly, a cure.

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The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health - by P.E. Moskowitz - Mental Hellth

#mentalillness #adhd | So when someone says, for example, “it’s ableist to say ADHD is contextual to our society and not an inherent feature of the brain,” I’d respond, “it’s ableist to say it’s not!” Otherwise you have to believe that queer, Black, trans people’s brains are somehow more diseased, and that people outside of Western, capitalist countries are just waiting for us to adequately diagnose and medicate them.

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Interview with Gabor Mate

#mentalillness #person:gabormate #politics | And so what I came to realize is that everything that the Soviets had said about Americans was true. Not Americans as the people but the American system as racists, as imperialists, and so on. And everything that the Americans said about the Soviets was also true, brutal, dictatorship, exploitative, dishonest, everything they said about each other was true. And everything they said about themselves was a lie.

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Is Depression Just Bad Chemistry? - Scientific American

#mentalillness #health #psychology | Interrogating the “chemical imbalance” narrative of depression

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