Selected Coverage
March 28th, 2025— CounterPunch— “Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love”
March 17th, 2025— The New York Times— “The Ex-Patients Club”
March 17th, 2025— Psychology Today— “Diagnosis Cascade: A Book Review”
March 6th, 2025— The American Scholar— “Who Would I Be Off My Meds”
February 23rd, 2025— Psychiatry at the Margins— “A Memoir for the Iatrogenic Age”
March 28th, 2024— How I Healed Podcast— “Freedom is not the absence of pain”
January 12th, 2024— Scienceline— “Exploring the ‘art’ of coming off psychiatric drugs”
September 23rd, 2022— Undark— “Book Review: How We Make Sense of Mental Illness”
April 8th, 2019 issue— The New Yorker — “The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs” under the ‘American Chronicles’ headline
March 5th, 2019 — The New York Times — “How to Quit Antidepressants: Very Slowly, Doctors Say”
January 3rd, 2019 — Yahoo News! — “In Recovery—from antidepressants. How patients are helping each other withdraw"
July 11th, 2018 — Podcast Interview with Charles Eisenstein — “Sanity in an Insane World”
May 28th, 2018 — Radio Interview on Madness Radio — “Life After Psych Meds”
May 12th, 2018 — Radio Interview on CBC Radio One — “I was sobbing uncontrollably: Patients say antidepressants difficult to quit”
May 1st, 2018 — Healthline — “People Trying to Quit Their Psychiatric Medications Can Get Help from This Online Group”
April 16th, 2018 — CBC — “When it Comes to Antidepressants, Getting to Zero Proves Difficult”
April 10th, 2018 — Psychology Today— “Why is Antidepressant Withdrawal a Hot Button Issue?”
April 9th, 2018 — The New York Times — “Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit”
November 11th, 2017 — Radio Interview with Awakin — “Laura Delano: Psychiatric Liberation Advocate, Writer, Organizer”
March 16th, 2016 – WBUR (Boston Public Radio) – “Getting Off Psych Meds Was The ‘Hardest Thing’ She’d Ever Done”
Film
Laura’s story is included in the following feature-length documentary films:
Diagnonsense (2024)
Cause of Death: Unknown (2016)
Crazywise (2017)
Bipolarized (2013)