Laura Delano

Consultant for individuals tapering off psychiatric medications and for their families:

‍Had multiple psychiatric diagnoses, including major depression and bipolar, rejected her diagnoses as meaningless labels; has been off medication since 2010, leading a successful life as a writer, speaker, and consultant (she rejects the term “recovery” as misleading and does not describe herself as “recovered”). After ten years of taking psychiatric medications and being in and out of hospitals, she decided that the treatment provided by the mental health system only made her problems worse.She describes herself as a “psychiatric liberation activist” and thinks that the mental health treatment she received “was entirely about oppression and control.”

Website: https://www.lauradelano.com/‍ ‍

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtGVKkGLoEc

Book: Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance (Viking, 2025) https://www.amazon.com/Unshrunk-Story-Psychiatric-Treatment-Resistance/dp/1984880489‍ ‍