Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.Psychosis and schizophrenia have long been framed with pessimism. Clinicians often underestimate the chance of recovery and pass that fatalism on to the people they treat. In this interview, host James Moore speaks with Prateeksha Sharma, whose lived experience and research challenge that view.
They talk about psychiatric subjectivation, “medical zombification”, the silencing effect of a diagnosis and how lived experience changes the conversation about mental health.
Prateeksha Sharma is a musician, composer, counsellor, writer and researcher. She is a distinguished research fellow at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research in Hyderabad and founded the Brightside Family Counseling Center. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a college student.
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Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
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