The tragedy of modern psychiatry is that it's so close to knowing enough to be helpful to people whose symptoms are behavioral, but the psychiatric standard of care is a straight jacket that prevents progress.

I've commented here about my efforts to extract my friend from her psychiatric misdiagnosis. tl/dr: she has the genetic condition where she can't turn the food fortification folic acid into a methylated form of Vitamin B-9 (MTHFR), which results in her being harmed by fortified food. Folate-deficiency is known to be behind problematic alcohol consumption.

She told me about how adding L-Methyl-Folate to her routine was like flipping a switch from 'depressed' to 'not-depressed'. But the doctors had already decided her substance-associated psychosis required tranquilizers ('antipsychotics') in perpetuity, and only added the vitamin to their forced prescriptions. The latest news is that she escaped from her court-ordered guardian and involuntary mental health treatments, sometime in February 2023. The antipsychotics have worn off, and she's been able to stay sober. She sounds like she's doing well.

Mad in America has published two of my blog posts. The second one was called Cargo Cult Psychiatry: https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/

SCOTUS dismissed my latest petition without comment, as if to say it's perfectly fine for the mental health industry to perpetrate fraud on the United States Court. Still thinking about how to proceed.

A book - Brain Energy by Chris Palmer - was published in 2022. All the old approaches to forced psychiatric drugging have been obsolete for decades, now they're indefensible. There's nothing new in the book, Dr. Palmer just compiled 50+ years of research into his book.