Writer - Tracey Higgins

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And not in any order—thank you to all the psychiatric survivors, people in the harmed community, those still in recovery, MH advocates, family members, and anyone else who is trying to change the MH system for the better despite all the opposition. It’s Friday, and I have plans…

Jack Rosberg, an expert on schizophrenia and no longer with us, warned me that people, especially MH professionals, would discount my story or say I was misdiagnosed if I went public with it. I needed to prepare mentally for all the backlash since I was going there, so that’s…

Sometimes I feel a little foolish saying trauma caused my schizophrenia, but I say it to make people relate the two, to know the extreme trauma is the schizophrenia. “Trauma” also feels insufficient for my adverse childhood experiences, so I say “extreme trauma.” My childhood…

It's important to keep this @NBCNewsHealth article in context. Pharmaceutical companies spent $3.4 billion on linear TV ads in the first eight months of 2024, with 48% of household TV ad impressions split among major networks including NBC. Specific to NBC, top programs like *NBC…

There are some really shady retired or ready-to-retire psychiatrists out there who have one foot in bio-psychiatry and the other foot in critical psychiatry. My questions are: why didn’t you say anything while you were drugging all your patients for nonexistent brain diseases?…

Many ppl will find what you have written contrary to their (mis)understanding. You are totally correct @TraceyHiggins92. 3 pics: psychiatrist/director of US NIMH @thomasinselmd "There's no reality to schizophrenia"; and psychiatry heavyweight @AllenFrancesMD "purely descriptive"

We create rather than discover a psychiatric disorder by the way we choose to talk about and classify what patients bring to us.

“Schizophrenia” is a story—of the worst kind What limits our freedom is the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we tell each other… Schizophrenia is a story of the worst kind–a stereotype. Constructed as a sellable story–a plausibly sciencey sounding story that a person…

Therapists and doctors can be narcissists, too. I have spotted a few of them on X. I think, mostly, MH professionals are good people. I especially admire their willingness to help people. But like any profession, narcissists exist within it.

Schizophrenia often begins as a gradual process, with early trauma, stress, or neurodevelopmental disruptions laying the groundwork long before a full diagnosis. The overlap with PTSD is real: both can involve dissociation, hypervigilance, and fragmented identity. And the idea of…

I slowly came to realize that the multiple internal voices I heard were not symptoms of illness, but manifestations of a subjectivity fractured by childhood trauma- and that the complexity of this suffering needed to be brought into the open where it could be heard and understood

A psychiatrist said something that caught my attention. She stated that schizophrenia is a process and there are early signs before the onset. That’s correct. PTSD came first in early childhood. Then the acute stage of schizophrenia. Actually, the symptoms of schizophrenia…

With scientism so prevalent in psychiatry what the science says is almost irrelevant as long as you can look like you are doing something that you call science and you can b***sh*t in a way that convinces others.

Of course, extreme childhood abuse led to the onset of schizophrenia, but there was another element at play that profoundly disturbed me: In a flash, a chilling realization washed over me; I got a glimpse of the perpetrators' deep-seated, malevolent nature. Right after the rape,…

I know little about the brain, but I know, through my experience, that once I confronted what had happened to me as a child and released all the emotions connected to what had happened, the symptoms of schizophrenia went away. Knowing what was happening in my brain was not…

It is really good to see psychiatrists exploring the link between childhood adversity and schizophrenia. It's time for psychiatrists who blame schizophrenia on the brain to catch up with existing research, even though it's been available for decades. “Approximately 70%–98% of…

I found this little gem while looking for alternative treatment places for those asking. They plan to open the farm for guests in 2026. Correct me if I am wrong. Have a look and donate if you can. “At Kyrie Farm, we prioritise an individual's unique story and needs, employing…

“Being labeled a schizophrenic can lead to being incarcerated and injected with potent neurotoxic drugs that often cause such irreversible brain diseases as tardive dyskinesia, tar-dive dementia, and the supersensitivity psychosis. It can lead to one’s total psychological…