The Reasonably Happy podcast with Paul Ollinger. Laura Delano was fourteen years old when she saw her first psychiatrist. Over the next 14 years, Laura was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, depression, social anxiety disorder, eating disorder, poly-substance dependence, and borderline personality disorder. Laura and I talk about mental health, the pharmaceutical industry, how her behavior affected those around her, how her family dealt with their difficult sister and daughter, and how that love finally helped to see her through.

Rational Voices with Sunil. Laura Delano shares her personal journey through the mental health system, discussing her experiences with psychiatric drugs and the impact they had on her life. She emphasizes the importance of informed choice, the dangers of medicalization, and the need for a cultural shift in how we view mental health.

Laura Delano joins Bridget Phetasy to discuss her book, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, which chronicles her haphazard diagnosis with bipolar disorder at the age of 14 and the 13 year saga of unending treatments, various diagnoses and a cornucopia of medications that she went through and how she got to the other side to living life med free.

Laura Delano is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a charitable organisation that she founded to help people make informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses, drugs, and drug withdrawal. Robert Whitaker is a journalist and the author of three books about the history and practice of psychiatry. He is the founder and president of Mad in America Foundation, a non-profit organisation that publishes madinamerica.com, with affiliate websites in 16 countries.

The Culture War with Tim Pool. Guests: Laura Delano; Dr. Josef; Alex Stein; Ian Crossland; Libby Emmons.

Dr. Petra Bueskens interviews Laura Delano, author of Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, a memoir that critiques the psychiatric industrial complex. They delve into the impact of psychiatric diagnosis and medication on personal identity and discuss the challenges of navigating away from a medicalized understanding of mental health.

"YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice. Michael invites author and modern-psychiatry survivor, Laura Delano, onto the show to share her personal account of the dark side of psychiatric treatment, how psychotropic meds can exacerbate mental illness, and why her broken faith in mental health changed everything for her.

Hear from Laura Delano about Psychotropic Medications and the connection with the world premiere of CATF's SIDE EFFECTS.

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker Podcast. Laura Delano was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder when she was a teenager and would go on to spent 13 years receiving psychiatric care, both as inpatient and outpatient. Then one day Laura had a life-changing epiphany - was it possible that rather than the care and medications she was receiving helping her, might they actually be causing her problems?

Jennifer Grossman interviews Laura Delano who describes her 14-year relationship to the American mental health industry and 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.

The Tudor Dixon Podcast. Tudor speaks with Laura Delano about her personal journey through the psychiatric care system. Laura shares her experiences with overdiagnosis, long-term psychiatric medication use, and the challenges of withdrawal. Together, they discuss the lack of objective testing in mental health diagnoses, societal pressures to medicate, and the importance of informed choice.

For 14 years, Delano was a “professional mental patient,” as she puts it, after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was a teenager. Now she wonders whether the dominant, medicalized approach to mental illness is actually making us as a society sicker.

The Tucker Carlson Show. Doctors told a teenage Laura Delano she had something they called bipolar disorder, and then proceeded to make her legitimately crazy with psych drugs. She’s one of the few who recovered.

Are mental health diagnoses real? Does anyone really need psychiatric drugs as "treatment"? Is the psychiatry industry a sham? In this episode, ⁠I speak with ⁠Laura Delano⁠ about her experience being diagnosed as "bipolar" as a teen and how she began to see things differently, and get off of the drugs prescribed to her to "treat" her.

Over 14 years, Laura Delano received multiple diagnoses and 19 medications. But her condition worsened and was deemed "treatment resistant." Laura chose to stop medications, challenge psychiatric norms and explore an unmedicated life, and details the results – and her critique of the mental health and pharmaceutical industries – in her memoir Unshrunk.

If People Only Knew with Anna Matson. Laura Delano is an author, 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.

Michael A. Smerconish, American radio host and television presenter, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer speaking with Laura Delano.

Laura Delano 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.

Laura Delano's new book "Unshrunk," tells her nightmarish but ultimately uplifting story in and out of the mental health industry after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 13.

Laura Delano speaks to BBC presenter Julian Worricker about her experiences of the mental health industry and leaving it. The latter half of the program features Dr Mark Horowitz, the co-author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines.

Bret Weinstein speaks with Laura Delano, the author of “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance” on the subject of today’s mental health treatment and psychotropic medications.

Laura Delano spent years as a professional patient, navigating psychiatric diagnoses, multiple medications, and a life defined by treatment. Laura discusses her 13-year experience as a psychiatric patient, the impact of long-term medication use, and how she took back control of her health to successfully taper off multiple psychiatric drugs.

A survivor of the psychiatric system turned activist, Laura Delano is the founder and Executive Director of Inner Compass Initiative (ICI), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people make more informed choices about psychiatric drugs, diagnoses, and drug withdrawal. Hosted by Katie Mottram.

How I Healed Podcast. We talk to Laura Delano, mother, writer, and peer-to-peer psychiatric support advocate.

Panellists: Laura Delano, Executive Director of Inner Compass Initiative, former psychiatric patient will facilitate the discussion; Dr. David Cohen- a professor of social welfare at UCLA who studies adverse effects of psychotropic drugs, involuntary psychiatric detentions, the history of mental health interventions, and the cultural spread of ignorance; Mark Horowitz, UK-based training psychiatrist and academic who learnt about the difficulty of coming off psychotropic medications first hand and is now trying to spread understanding of how to safely deprescribe and prescribe these medications; Angela Peacock, MSW, former Army Sergeant and subject of the film.

Laura Delano shares what it was like to be diagnosed "mentally ill" as a teenager and how she found life beyond labels by learning to be with her emotional pain.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it's time to stop?

Research seminar about depression pills in Copenhagen in June 2018. Arranged by the Nordic Cochrane Centre. With Professor Peter Gøtzsche, psychiatric survivor Laura Delano, pharmacist Bertel Rüdinger & psyhologist and PhD student Anders Sørensen.

Prof Peter Kinderman asked activist Laura Delano from the USA what she felt about the AD4E event.

Prof Peter Kinderman asked activist Laura Delano what she felt about the launch of Mad in the U.K. that happened at AD4E London.

Prof Peter Kinderman asks activist Laura Delano for her thoughts on anger, and a few other things!

The Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil received Laura Delano to participate in the panel "Experience of Psychiatry Survivors: How To Stop Being a Psychiatric Patient?" The event was coordinated by researchers Paulo Amarante and Fernando Freitas, from the Laboratory of Studies and Research in Mental Health and Psychosocial Care (LAPS), with support from Abrasme and Asfoc.

Laura Delano is a psychiatric liberation activist, writer, and community organizer. She entered the “mental health” system as a 13-year old and escaped it 14 years later, after accidentally stumbling upon Robert Whitaker’s book, Anatomy of an Epidemic. Today, Laura works with individuals looking to free themselves from psychiatric labels and drugs, and communities seeking to build alternatives to the “mental health” system.

At the tender age of 13 Laura Delano had her first mental emotional crisis and entered into the “mental health” system. Today, Laura works with individuals looking to free themselves from the psychiatric labels and drugs, and communities seeking to build alternatives to current mainstream treatment approaches.

In this talk, Laura Delano explores what “recovery” has meant for her on her journey through the mental health system. She reflects on what it was like to be diagnosed “bipolar” and seek help from the mental health system over thefollowing fourteen years.

Laura Delano talks about grieving the loss of fourteen years to psychiatric labels and psychotropic drugs, and how she reclaimed her life. Along the way, she offers tips and suggestions for those in their own process of grieving loss to Psychiatry. Find more at www.RecoveringfromPsychiatry.com

Laura Delano offers tips, suggestions, and hope for those in psychiatric drug withdrawal from ex-patient Laura Delano.

Mental health activist Laura Delano speaks at MindFreedom's 2014 annual protest of the American Psychiatric Association in NYC.

Laura Delano explores life, death, and suicide from the perspective of suicide attempt survivor and ex-"Bipolar" patient, Laura Delano.

ex-"Bipolar" patient Laura Delano discusses the impact that psychiatric diagnosis had on her life, and the broader implications we face from the medicalization of human experience.

A warm welcome to any and all who believe in - or who are starting to wonder that perhaps there could be - life beyond psychiatric labels and psychotropic drugs.

Laura Delano at Occupy the American Psychiatric Association, May 5 2012, in Philadelphia.