“People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, people with great minds and a strong personality rarely come out of good little children.” –L.S. Vygotsky
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- About this blog
- Readers experience of Beyond Meds
- Monica/Gianna: withdrawal documented
- Brief note to readers
- Biopsychiatry/Chemical imbalance info
- Trauma & PTSD info
- Anxiety/Fear info
- Suicide prevention
- Neuroplasticity
- DSM news and opinion
- Pharmaceuticals
- News items – psychiatry, nutrition (etc)
- Forced Treatment
- PsychDrug Withdrawal
- Recover
- Recovery Stories
- Psychosis recovery stories
- Spiritual emergency
- Hearing Voices
- Sleep/Insomnia
- The foundation of healing
- Open Dialogue: Care for Psychosis
- Neuroplasticity: heal your brain
- Mental distress as transformative journey
- How I deal with mental breakdowns
- There is nothing wrong with you
- Undiagnosing myself
- Reframe your experience
- Professionals & Patients
- Bridging Patient-Professional Divide
- To mental health profession
- Mental profession & psych patient (discrimination etc)
- Healing journey: part 1
- Healing journey: part 2
- An MD who talks sense
- INFORMED Choice
- Words for all in the “helping” professions
- Medical compliance? Adherence? No. MDs are my PARTNERS
- Letters to my shrink
- Shrinks create addicts then cut cord
- A plea to prescribing MDs: please help us heal
- Nutrition
- HealingArts
- Healing
- Meditation-collections
- Sleep/Insomnia
- The foundation of healing
- Meditation, not all bliss and roses
- Shamanic-like nature of consciousness
- Spiritual emergency
- Empathy, compassion, vulnerability
- Yoga at home
- Open Dialogue: Alternative Care for Psychosis
- More Yoga
- Aromatherapy
- Spending time alone
- Toolbox for healing
- Chronic Illness
- Misc
- STORE
Alternatives to psychiatry
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Healing and Recovery Blogs
- A Journey – no longer a victim
- A Jungian approach to psychosis
- be whole now
- Corinna West
- Fable
- Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia
- In Pieces
- International Hearing Voices Movement
- Low histamine chef
- Mind Training to improve health
- One year of writing and healing
- Psychotic Buddha
- Rayne’s World
- Recovery from "schizophrenia" and other "psychotic disorders"
- Robert Augustus Masters – Integral Healing and Awakening
- Spiritual Emergency
- Spiritual Recovery
- Storied Mind
- The Healthy Skeptic
- The Mind Sanctuary
- The Nutrient Path
- The Slow Mood Movement
- Tilting at Windmills
- Vanessa D. Fisher: Reflections
- Voices of Recovery
- Wellness Wordworks
Mental Health and Related Blogs
- 1 Boring Old Man
- After Psychotherapy
- Alison Bass
- Alt-mentalities
- Before you take that pill
- Beyond the Psychiatric Box
- Bipolar or Waking Up?
- Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: a closer look
- Corinna West
- CounterPsych (Canada)
- Critical Psychiatry
- daily living in a manic-depressive world
- depression introspection
- Different Thoughts
- Evolutionary Psychiatry
- Going Through Hell
- Holistic Adult and Child Psychiatry
- Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia
- Lunatic Fringe
- Mad in America
- Mad in Vermont
- Mind Hacks
- Neuroskeptic
- Psychotic Buddha
- PsychSurvivor
- Rayne’s World
- Recovery from "schizophrenia" and other "psychotic disorders"
- Ruminations on Madness
- Scientific Misconduct Blog
- Seroxat Sufferers (Paxil)
- Somatosphere
- Spiritual Emergency
- Spiritual Recovery
- Spit, Bristle and Fury
- Storied Mind
- Suicidal No More
- The Mind Sanctuary
- The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive
- The Slow Mood Movement
- Thought Broadcast
- Tilting at Windmills
- Truly Noodled
- Urocyon's Meanderings
- Wellness Wordworks
- Wellness Writer
- When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home
- WillSpirit
Organizations, Resources and Information
- Association for Women in Psychology — Concerns with DSM
- Benzo Withdrawal—Heather Ashton Manual
- Center for Building a Culture of Empathy
- Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher–Gwen Olsen
- Corinna West
- CrazyDiamond UK – Recovery Approaches to Emotional Wellbeing
- Dr. Reg Peart on Benzodiazepines
- Evolutionary Psychiatry
- Freedom Center
- Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs – Will Hall
- Icarus Project
- International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery—INTAR
- Intervoice—for voice hearers
- Mad in America
- Madness Radio
- Mind
- MindFreedom
- Mother Bear Community Action Network: bringing families hope
- National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
- National Empowerment Center
- Natural healing for mothers
- Pat Deegan
- Paula Joan Caplan
- Portland Hearing Voices
- Psychdiagnosis.net
- Psychiatric Medication Awareness Group
- Psychosis Dharma Community
- PsychRights
- Renew – Ireland
- Rufus May–radical psychologist
- Sally Clay
- Shery Mead — Peer Support
- SSRI Stories
- Successful Schizophrenia
- The Center for Mind/Body Medicine
- The International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry
- Will Hall Counseling & Consulting
Spirituality
- A Jungian approach to psychosis
- Adyashanti
- Aloha Dharma
- Awakening Sacred Flow: the poetics of feminine space
- Buddhist Geeks
- Centering Prayer: Father Thomas Keating
- Gratefulness.org
- Jack Kornfield
- Meaningness
- Pema Chödrön
- Psychotic Buddha
- Secular Buddhism
- Shinzen's Blog
- Spiritual Emergency
- Spiritual Recovery
- Tara Brach
Support Groups for Withdrawal and/or Alt Treatment
Categories
From the beginning – Archives
Top Posts & Pages
- there is no such thing as a monolithic state called depression
- New social media campaign features stories of individuals who reject psychiatric diagnosis
- Lamictal (lamotrigine) withdrawal from hell
- From "De-pressed" to "Deep Rest": Depression as a Call to Spiritual Awakening?
- The Value of Depression - Al Galves
- Chemical imbalance myth takes a big public fall (no, antidepressants do NOT correct an imbalance of serotonin, nor do other psychiatric drugs correct anything at all)
- Before excessive drug treatments NIMH declared depression “on the whole” a diagnosis with best prognosis for recovery: not so anymore
- Psychiatric drug withdrawal 101
- Gabapentin (neurontin) withdrawal
- Histamine intolerance (likely to apply to others on psych meds and coming off them too)
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- ⌂
- About
- About this blog
- Readers experience of Beyond Meds
- Monica/Gianna: withdrawal documented
- Brief note to readers
- Biopsychiatry/Chemical imbalance info
- Trauma & PTSD info
- Anxiety/Fear info
- Suicide prevention
- Neuroplasticity
- DSM news and opinion
- Pharmaceuticals
- News items – psychiatry, nutrition (etc)
- Forced Treatment
- PsychDrug Withdrawal
- Recover
- Recovery Stories
- Psychosis recovery stories
- Spiritual emergency
- Hearing Voices
- Sleep/Insomnia
- The foundation of healing
- Open Dialogue: Care for Psychosis
- Neuroplasticity: heal your brain
- Mental distress as transformative journey
- How I deal with mental breakdowns
- There is nothing wrong with you
- Undiagnosing myself
- Reframe your experience
- Professionals & Patients
- Bridging Patient-Professional Divide
- To mental health profession
- Mental profession & psych patient (discrimination etc)
- Healing journey: part 1
- Healing journey: part 2
- An MD who talks sense
- INFORMED Choice
- Words for all in the “helping” professions
- Medical compliance? Adherence? No. MDs are my PARTNERS
- Letters to my shrink
- Shrinks create addicts then cut cord
- A plea to prescribing MDs: please help us heal
- Nutrition
- HealingArts
- Healing
- Meditation-collections
- Sleep/Insomnia
- The foundation of healing
- Meditation, not all bliss and roses
- Shamanic-like nature of consciousness
- Spiritual emergency
- Empathy, compassion, vulnerability
- Yoga at home
- Open Dialogue: Alternative Care for Psychosis
- More Yoga
- Aromatherapy
- Spending time alone
- Toolbox for healing
- Chronic Illness
- Misc
- STORE
Awards from other bloggers
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From Storied Mind
From Justana
From Black Holes and Barbies
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From Disjointed Thoughts
From Bipolar to Bipolar
