Prominent Mental Health Advocate, Author To Appear At West Hartford Library

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A prominent author and advocate for those struggling with mental illness will be at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford on Wednesday to discuss her work.

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teen, Laura Delano is the author of "Unshrunk: A Story About Psychiatric Treatment Resistance."

She will be at the library, located at 20 S. Main St., West Hartford, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2.

In her book, Delano recounts her first psychiatric diagnosis and her subsequent experience as a decade-plus patient in the mental health system.

Her work takes a skeptical look at how psychiatric drugs are prescribed.

"Weaving Delano’s medical records and doctors’ notes with an investigation of modern psychiatry and illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, Unshrunk questions the dominant, rarely critiqued role that the American mental health industry, and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, plays in shaping what it means to be human," reads a library announcement.

Delano's talk is free, but registration in advance is requested at this link.