{"product_id":"unshrunk-a-story-of-psychiatric-treatment-resistance-hardcover","title":"Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Delano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.\" --Anna Lembke, MD, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDopamine Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"A really moving and heart-rending story. \u003ci\u003eUnshrunk\u003c\/i\u003e will help and empower so many people.\" --Johann Hari, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eStolen Focus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe powerful memoir of one woman's experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt age fourteen, Laura Delano saw her first psychiatrist, who immediately diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and started her on a mood stabilizer and an antidepressant. At school, Delano was elected the class president and earned straight-As and a national squash ranking; at home, she unleashed all the rage and despair she felt, lashing out at her family and locking herself in her bedroom, obsessing over death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelano's initial diagnosis marked the beginning of a life-altering saga. For the next thirteen years, she sought help from the best psychiatrists and hospitals in the country, accumulating a long list of diagnoses and a prescription cascade of nineteen drugs. After some resistance, Delano accepted her diagnosis and embraced the pharmaceutical regimen that she'd been told was necessary to manage her incurable, lifelong disease. But her symptoms only worsened. Eventually doctors declared her condition so severe as to be \"treatment resistant.\" A disturbing series of events left her demoralized, but sparked a last glimmer of possibility. . . . What if her life was falling apart not in spite of her treatment, but because of it? After years of faithful psychiatric patienthood, Delano realized there was one thing she hadn't tried--leaving behind the drugs and diagnoses. This decision would mean unlearning everything the experts had told her about herself and forging into the terrifying unknown of an unmedicated life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving Delano's medical records and doctors' notes with an investigation of modern psychiatry and illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, \u003ci\u003eUnshrunk\u003c\/i\u003e questions the dominant, rarely critiqued role that the American mental health industry, and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, plays in shaping what it means to be human.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Delano\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps people make more informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses, drugs, and drug withdrawal. She is a leading voice in the international movement of people who've left behind the medicalized, professionalized mental health industry to build something different. Laura works with individuals and families around the world who are seeking guidance and support for the withdrawal journey and life post-psychiatry. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8.51 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964738961709,"sku":"9781984880482","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/unshrunk-a-story-of-psychiatric-treatment-resistance-hardcover-6132030.webp?v=1775473387","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/unshrunk-a-story-of-psychiatric-treatment-resistance-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}