988: Is it harming more than helping? Wildflower Alliance hosted a discussion with me, psychiatric survivor and 988 victim Emily Wu Truong, and 988 consultant Jess Stohlman-Rainey about the latest known and still-not-known about 988 in the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s84ysd8kB5Y
This article was previously published in the Globe and Mail. Crisis hotlines, like Canada’s new 988, promise confidentiality. So why do so many trace calls and texts? * Rob Wipond is an investigative journalist and author of Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships. * A teen
Psychiatrist Awais Aftab read my book Your Consent Is Not Required and reviewed it for his "Psychiatry at the Margins" substack series, and then he and I engaged in an email discussion about different perspectives on forcing psychiatric interventions on people. Click to read part one and part two of our exchange.
Psychiatric survivor and yoga teacher Emmy Chahal and family member and advocate Kyle Fawkes interviewed me for their new "Reimagine Mental Health" podcast and video series. Listen to the first two podcasts in the series to learn more about their stories, and click here to watch the interview with me on YouTube or here to
Nicole Lamberson interviewed me for the podcast and video series from the folks who made the film "Medicating Normal." Watch it here.
