For nearly 15 years, Laura Delano was, in her own words, a “professional psychiatric patient.” She believed she had an incurable psychiatric disease that could be managed only with medication, therapy ...

Laura Delano had everything going for her. Born into an upper-class Connecticut family, her childhood was an enviable montage of sports camps, country clubs, and squash tournaments. Oil paintings of ...

Review of Unshrunk by Laura Delano. At the start of eighth grade, seemingly out of the blue, Laura Delano—class president, squash champion, and future debutante—sensed herself coming apart. Looking ...

Mental health advocate Delano chronicles her struggles with mental illness and psychiatric drugs in this thorny and impassioned debut memoir. She describes how her unstable moods and the suffocation ...

Laura Delano, author of 'Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance,' discusses her mental health experiences and the effects of related medications. Kids are hollering '6-7' in the ...