Maybe Your Brain's Not Broken, After All

After years inside the mental health system, one woman discovered that healing meant trusting herself—not her diagnosis.

Psychiatric meds have been life-changing—even life-saving—for many people. But what happens when they don’t help? When the pills pile up, the diagnoses multiply, and you still don’t feel like yourself? For Laura Delano, that was her reality through her teens and twenties: a well-intentioned system that left her more lost than healed. In her new memoir, Laura shares how she stepped off the psychiatric treadmill, reclaimed her sense of self, and discovered a different kind of recovery—one rooted not in medication, but in meaning, connection, and trust in her own mind. Here are key takeaways we can all benefit from: