Exercise for Depression: Better Than Antidepressants With a number needed to treat (NNT) of 2, exercise looks much better than psychiatric drugs for depression. By Peter Simons

Poem of the Week: "We’re Not Settling" by Jeffrey Powell

Artist of the Week: Iluminada Santos with "Deep Blue" Our art gallery is always open for submissions and we'd love to share your work! #artheals

Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides by Peter C. Gøtzsche, MD "Depression drugs don’t work for depression and they increase the occurrence of the most feared outcome, suicide."

Turning the DSM Against Itself: Diagnosing the Disorders of Western Psychology A new paper satirically reworks psychiatric nosology, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders. By Justin Karter

Read the original article: Wada, K., & Fellner, K. D. (2025). Decolonizing psychiatric diagnosis: Turning the DSM on its head. American Psychologist.

Delusional Disorder: Grandiose & Persecutory Types – Believing one’s culture is superior while also claiming to be the “real” victim whenever privilege is challenged. A hallmark symptom: extreme defensiveness when asked to confront racial or colonial history.

Selective Amnesia (Colonial Memory Disorder) – A pervasive inability to recall historical injustices. Common symptoms: forgetting land theft, erasing Indigenous resistance, & replacing real history with comforting national myths.

Addictive Disorder (Power, Wealth & Status Dependence) – The compulsive hoarding of power & resources at the expense of others. Tolerance increases over time, requiring ever more land, money, & domination to achieve the same high.

Using satire, Wada & Fellner craft a set of "new" DSM disorders that diagnose the core dysfunctions of settler colonialism. A few highlights:

Instead of locating distress inside individuals, Wada & Fellner apply the DSM’s clinical language to diagnose the systemic pathologies of colonialism & capitalism. Greed? A substance addiction. Land accumulation? Pathological hoarding. Historical amnesia? A dissociative disorder.

Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology by Robert Dole From Socrates to Jesus to Nietzsche, all experienced divine Beatific Visions, just as I have.

Multicultural approaches in therapy have fallen short, failing to challenge the root causes of suffering. A structural competency framework calls for a fundamental transformation of training, research, and clinical care. By Javier Rizo

How Global Fuel Poverty Becomes Individual Mental Distress Review spanning 25 countries finds that financial insecurity, housing deterioration, and social withdrawal—rooted in fuel poverty—are major drivers of psychological distress. By Richard Sears

"By labeling these deviations as mental illnesses, psychiatry helped to neutralize threats to the system. The individual was no longer a person with legitimate grievances but a patient requiring treatment. In that way, psychiatry sides with the oppressors."

Song of the Week suggested by MIA reader Will Allan: “The drugs don’t work, they just make you worse. An acknowledgment of fact. A voice that sees hope beyond a current situation.”