Laura Delano

Laura Delano is an American writer and consultant who is the founder of the Inner Compass Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps patients understand their psychiatric diagnoses and drugs and to build community outside of the mental health system.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Delano is descended from United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt through her father.[5] She was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, the eldest of three sisters.[5] Delano is a graduate of Harvard University.[6]

Works

In March 2025, Delano published the memoir Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance. The book details her struggle with mental healthcare, beginning when she received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder at the age of 13. Following that diagnosis, she spent decades struggling with psychiatric diagnoses, a "cascade" of differing medications, and mental health institutions. After coming across a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, she found the group's focus on responsibility for one's own self refreshing, starting a path of personal understanding that her struggles with mental health were rooted in the very psychiatric medications she had been prescribed.[7][8][9][10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Who We Are". Inner Compass Initiative. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
  2. ^ "How to Quit Antidepressants: Very Slowly, Doctors Say (Published 2019)". March 6, 2019.
  3. ^ Aviv, Rachel (April 1, 2019). "The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs" – via www.newyorker.com.
  4. ^ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rethinking-mental-health/201603/laura-delano-psychiatric-liberation
  5. ^ a b Aviv 2022, p. 177.
  6. ^ Aviv 2022, p. 185.
  7. ^ "Diagnosis Cascade: A Book Review | Psychology Today". www.psychologytoday.com.
  8. ^ "UNSHRUNK | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  9. ^ "Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance by Laura Delano". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
  10. ^ Barry, Ellen (2025-03-17). "The Ex-Patients' Club". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
  11. ^ Attride, Dawn (2024-01-12). "Exploring the 'art' of coming off psychiatric drugs". Scienceline. Retrieved 2025-04-15.

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