Are Psychiatric Drugs Making Us Sicker?

A conversation with Laura Delano, author of ‘Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance.’
Are Psychiatric Drugs Making Us Sicker?
Laura Delano, the author of "Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance," in Washington on April 8, 2025. The Epoch Times
Jan Jekielek
Jan Jekielek
Senior Editor
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For 14 years, Laura Delano was a “professional mental patient,” as she describes it, after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was a teenager.

Now she wonders whether the standard approach to mental illness in America is actually making us sicker.

Jan Jekielek
Jan Jekielek
Senior Editor
Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”