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Dependence is not addiction, and being treated as an “addict” by a medical professional adds insult to prescribed-harm injury.

Prescribing patients antidepressants just because they ask for them has negative consequences for individual patients and society as a whole.

A new survey highlights the ongoing influence of the "chemical imbalance" theory and how patient beliefs shape their antidepressant treatment.

ICI's executive director, Cooper Davis, reflects on the growing diversity of the movement calling for mental health reform.

Over the past few days, The Guardian newspaper published a series of articles exploring and highlighting subjects close to all of our hearts: antidepressant withdrawal, the harms of medicalizing emotional and social problems, and the importance of sharing our experiences—in our own words—of taking and stopping antidepressants, and of rediscovering life beyond the mental health industry.

Leela Ehrhart reflects on why this common advice can be problematic, and her top 5 tips for how to determine if or when a big life change is actually in your best interest.

Leela Ehrhart shares her top tips for weathering the darkest nights in psychiatric drug withdrawal.

Leela Ehrhart reflects on the power of the stories we choose to believe in whilst in psychiatric drug withdrawal.

The Inner Compass Initiative website has merged with The Withdrawal Project content – now there is ONLY one united site right here at https://www.theinnercompass.org/

Present for Peace is a peer support group founded by someone who realized psychiatric medications and professionals weren't always the answer.