I learned quickly in my journey that not all clinical approaches are made equal. Even the best psychiatrists I worked with often disagreed.

Psychiatry as a field does not yet have definitive, quantitative answers for what is wrong, what works and for whom.

The practice of psychiatry, however, fundamentally deals with how we perceive and engage with reality.  To be effective, psychiatrists often have to confront a patient’s beliefs and models of reality.

Conflict is the core of recovery. But how can a patient trust that conflict if psychiatry itself disagrees on the facts? 

We think the answer is to have patients understand and join the discussion. To learn for themselves what the smartest thinkers of our time believe and why.

Then we need to be honest with ourselves about how each expert’s beliefs make us feel - what resonates, what infuriates and what falls flat. 

We’re starting the conversation with people whose approach to the brain, mind, self and relationships resonates with what actually helped me recover.

We invite you to join our live discussions — so you can hear and decide for yourself.

— Lindsay Dow

Founder, Personily