This is Charay Gadd-Spencer, holding a framed photo of her daughter, London. London was a bright, artistic, soccer-loving 12-year-old who dreamed of becoming an Air Force pilot. She deeply sensed the world we live in and all the pain it can bring. When her family sought help, the mental health industry responded with rushed prescriptions instead of real support. After a crisis admission, London was started on Prozac without discussion of non-drug options or the FDA black box warning for suicidal ideation in children. Just weeks later, on July 30, 2024, she died from an overdose. The system failed her at every turn. While London became a direct patient of the mental health industry, Charay was not. Yet she has lived through every parent’s worst nightmare—the sudden, preventable loss of her child. She is now channeling her grief into advocating for vital change. As the founder of The London Effect, her nonprofit is championing informed choice, pharmacogenetic testing, and London’s Law to prioritize non-drug interventions first. As an organization run by and for patients who have left or are leaving the mental health industry, much of what we talk about is from the perspective of patients. But we want to highlight the impact the mental health industry can have on the families and loved ones of patients—people who never directly received the diagnoses and drugs that so many of us have. People like Charay. At this point, Charay and London may be new faces to you all, but Charay’s voice is only going to carry further. So we’d love for you to join her in saying hello in the comments to welcome her into this community. You can say hello here or to her directly via our corresponding Instagram post. And given all that’s happened to Charay, we’d especially love to hear from those of you who are loved ones of patients and former patients. Thank you. 💛