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I recognize that I need to be on psychotropic medications for the rest of my life. I am thriving. I’m a licensed clinical social worker and an adjunct instructor at a local college.

She stopped taking her psych meds. Now she helps others do the same. Laura Delano’s “Unshrunk” is more than a memoir. It’s a treatise against psychiatric medications.

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But between 2018 and 2021, he and his team found that among adults receiving outpatient mental health care, those using only medication declined from 67.6% to 62.1%.