Your Consent is Not Required with Rob Wipond | The Gaslit Truth Podcast with Dr Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz

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The Gaslit Truth Podcast is hosted by Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz, exploring mental health, psychiatric medication withdrawal, therapy culture, and informed consent.

In this episode, Dr. Teralyn Sell and Therapist Jenn Schmitz talk with Medical Journalist Rob Wipond author of Your Consent is Not Required. 

The stories we tell about “care” rarely match what happens behind locked doors. We sit down with journalist Rob Wipond, author of Your Consent Is Not Required, to unpack how ordinary people are swept into psychiatric detention through vague laws, crisis-line escalations, and everyday institutional habits that confuse safety with control. Rob begins with his father’s involuntary commitment after cancer surgery—a case that morphed from a plea for help into months of heavy drugs and ECT—and then widens the lens to show how schools, workplaces, airports, and social media interactions now feed a system built on subjective risk calls.

We dig into 988: how a call marketed as confidential support can trigger location pinging, police dispatch, and hospitalization. Rob explains why call centers record conversations, how AI scans for “r

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