Hybrid (in-person or online) Conference: Keynote Speaker Brooke Siem, Author of "May Cause Side Effects"About this Event
The 16th Annual Pat Risser RSVP Conference will provide critical information for parents, families, community members, and those who use and/or provide services in the mental healthcare system.
Attendees will hear from a full day of cutting-edge speakers with lived experience who challenge traditional views of mental health care and psychiatric medications. Attendees will obtain information to help them make more informed decisions about mental healthcare/medications for themselves and/or their loved ones.
Hybrid (In-Person or Online) Conference
$20.00/in person (Breakfast, lunch, book signing, full-day of presentations included)
$10.00/online (Includes access to a full day of presentations via Zoom)
The full Schedule of Speakers is being developed and will be posted ASAP.
Keynote Speaker:
Brooke Siem, Author of May Cause Side Effects
Brooke Siem was among the first generation of teens to be medicated with antidepressants. After spending half her life—and her entire adult life—on antidepressants, she wondered: Who might I be without them?
Six years after taking her last antidepressant and now fully healed from what was once assumed to be lifelong depression, Brooke’s mission is to share the story of what happened after she booked a one-way ticket to Malaysia and got off all the psychiatric drugs.
Unfurled against a global backdrop and her work as an award-winning chef, Brooke’s story chronicles explosive and terrifying antidepressant withdrawal and the fight to manage the modern mental health system, all while demanding hope and forgiveness in the name of healing.
Event Venue
John C. Myers Convocation Center, 401 College Ave, Ashland, United States
USD 12.51 to USD 23.18
