If People Only Knew what psychiatric drugs actually do (and don’t do.)
Laura Delano is an author, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps people make more informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses, drugs, and drug withdrawal.
She is a leading voice in the international movement of people who’ve left behind the medicalized, professionalized mental health industry to build something different. Laura has worked as an advocate within and beyond the public mental health system and has spent the past 15 years working with individuals and families around the world who are seeking guidance and support for psychiatric drug withdrawal.
Her book, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, was published in March 2025.
Timestamps
02:52 She Opened Up and Got Backlash for it
07:50 Laura’s Early Childhood
12:21 First Went to Therapy
25:43 “Trust the Experts”
46:04 Breaking the Cycle
49:53 Laura Goes to College
58:36 Everything Changed
01:03:12 How Laura got off Psychiatric Drugs
01:11:48 Touch Some Grass
01:23:19 Can you Taper off These Drugs?
01:28:14 Laura’s Life After Psych Meds
01:35:28 What we Can Do
01:38:29 If People Only Knew
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