A Bit More On Electroboy And About.com

I know some of you appreciated my explanation of what went down between Andy Behrman and about.com. His article was well-written and on-point, and about.com does have some articles critical of the side-effects of psych meds on its site. So, I can only conclude that Behrman was censored by about.com because he was implicitly dinging on a major advertiser (the makers of Abilify) at about.com.

Being a writer myself, I know how offended he must feel. Although my work has never been censored, I know that there are people in the mental health world who would like me to stop saying harsh things about psych meds (once again, people, I am pro-meds—provided that they actually work). I know they would like me to bow to the family-led mental health movement and adopt their notions of suicide survivorship and always praise meds even when the news on that front is provably bad.

Sorry. Not going to happen here.

And as for Behrman: I hope he never writes for about.com again, unless they are paying him scads of money (I don’t think they are). If he wants an outlet for writing about mental health matters, I’d be happy to post his prose here from time to time. I don’t have money, but I do offer journalistic freedom.