Nicole Lamberson interviewed me for the podcast and video series from the folks who made the film “Medicating Normal.” Watch it here.

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  1. Duncan Mills February 18, 2024 at 12:21 pm - Reply

    “I am trying to contribute and be another voice in that equation.” You are a warrior of Love, Rob Wipond.
    It’s so important to have people like you and Bob Whitaker as part of this fight. I expect you could make much more in other carrier paths although this path checks the “life with purpose” box that Victor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning” spoke of.

  2. Duncan Mills February 14, 2024 at 11:36 pm - Reply

    Hi Rob,
    I appreciate your extremely empathetic and knowledgeable interview. In my late teens I had my distress story, followed by a forced hospitalization (tricked into a “voluntary commitment”), then forcibly drugged beginning 14 years of Psych drugs. I was determined to get off and took my last dose in 1980. My story has many of the elements you referred to in your interview. I have a lot of recovery now along with some PTS when around the medical world. I want to tell the story before I get too old, but I find it challenging to tell it in a compact way.
    . Even though I’m not very tech savvy, I’ve watched with satisfaction the growth of the critical psychiatry movement such as Mad in America, Medicating Normal, Joanna Montcrief, Dr. Peter Gotzsche to name a few. Your book sounds like an excellent addition to all this. Thank You for your courage and caring and the work it took to put this together. Bye for now.

    • Rob Wipond February 15, 2024 at 12:16 am - Reply

      Thank you for your kind words, Duncan. I’m sorry to hear about what you had to go through. I hope you feel you are doing better now!

      Yes, I appreciate that it can be difficult to figure out the best way to tell these kinds of stories. Sometimes I think someone should be organizing writing workshops specifically to help people craft memoirs of their involuntary commitment experiences. Not everyone is going to be able to get published, but at least being able to get the story written and share it with others could be a meaningful, supportive process for many people.

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