Interviews
June 11th, 2025 - The Tudor Dixon Podcast - “How to Escape the Cycle of Psychiatric Medication Dependence with Laura Delano”
June 9th, 2025 - Life Examined - “When to Medicate the Mind with Laura Delano”
June 6th, 2025— The Tucker Carlson Show— “The Dark Truth About Antidepressants, SSRIs, and the Psychiatrists Lying for Profit”
May 27th, 2025 — The Same Drugs — “Maybe you’re not crazy after all”
May 15th, 2025— Side Effects w/ Dr. Josef— “Meet The Woman Psychiatrists See as a ‘Threat’”
May 14th, 2025— American Thought Leaders— “What the Mental Health Industry Doesn’t Tell You: Laura Delano”
May 6th, 2025— If People Only Knew w/ Anna Matson— “If People Only Knew What Psychiatric Drugs Do (and Don’t Do)”
April 17th, 2025— CNN— “A former psychiatric patient reflects on her medical journey from diagnosis to medication withdrawal”
April 17th, 2025— The Med Free Mental Fitness Podcast— “The Diagnosis Trap”
April 2nd, 2025— Radically Genuine w/ Roger McFillin— “Misdiagnosed and drugged at 14”
March 27th, 2025—The Michael Smerconish Program— “Laura Delano, author of Unshrunk”
March 25th, 2025— The Moynihan Report— “Everything you know about depression is wrong”
March 23rd, 2025— Matt Orfalea— “Harsh Truth About Therapy & Psychiatry Drugs”
March 23rd, 2025— BBC World Service— “Does a psychiatric diagnosis need to lead to medication?”
March 18th, 2025— DarkHorse Podcast w/ Bret Weinstein— “Prescription for Insanity”
March 17th, 2025— Metabolic Mind— “How I Overcame ‘Treatment-Resistant’ Mental Illness: Laura Delano’s Journey”
March 28th, 2024— How I Healed Podcast— “Freedom is not the absence of pain”
July 11th, 2018 — Charles Eisenstein — “Sanity in an Insane World”
May 28th, 2018 — Madness Radio — “Life After Psych Meds”
May 12th, 2018 — CBC Radio One — “I was sobbing uncontrollably: Patients say antidepressants difficult to quit”
November 11th, 2017 — 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”
Print Coverage
June 2025— Commentary Magazine— “Keep on Pushing My Love Over the Borderline”
May 15th, 2025— The Wall Street Journal— ‘Unshrunk’ Review: The Toll of the Treatment
May 3rd, 2025— Mad in America— “Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate”
April 21st, 2025— Daily Mail— “I almost ended my life at 25 because of the cocktail of anti-depressant drugs I had been put on from the age of 14”
April 14th, 2025— Next Big Idea Club— “5 Lessons in Recovery from the Other Side of Mental Health Treatment”
March 28th, 2025— CounterPunch— “Unshrunk: A Memoir That Upsets the NYT and Which Freethinkers Will Love”
May 18th, 2025— Psychology Today— “Navigating Mental Health Without Drugs”
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”
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"
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”
Film
Laura’s story is included in the following feature-length documentary films:
Diagnonsense (2024)
Cause of Death: Unknown (2016)
Crazywise (2017)
Bipolarized (2013)