Eli

“This was a wholly organic, commonsensical process: I bought no self-help books and sought no practitioners, protocols, supplements, products, or formulaic practices to teach me. Instead, I looked inward and listened.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“I’d spent most of my life assuming that discomfort was a problem to be fixed, numbed, or run away from—that I needed to do something whenever I felt sad or anxious or angry or headachy or otherwise uncomfortable: seek out some kind of professional help or service, take pills, eat something, buy something, get drunk, scroll through a newsfeed, distract myself with television.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“according to the American Psychiatric Association, a mother “still” grieving the loss of her child more than two weeks out now meets the criteria for a major depression diagnosis and antidepressant treatment?”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

“They convince us we have to look a certain way, talk a certain way, perform a certain way, I thought. We’re just puppets.”
― Laura Delano, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance