What if we questioned everything
we've been taught about being human?
What is
Opt-Out Institute?
OOI is a space to question the inherited set of default assumptions about what it means to struggle, to suffer, and to offer (or receive) help.
Emotional pain is assumed to be a symptom of illness requiring medical treatment. Care is a service you pay for.
For many of us, being human has come to mean being a patient—often indefinitely.
Opting out is a practice of noticing those inherited stories, stepping outside them, and discovering what's actually true about yourself.
OOI offers resources, support, and community for people at every stage of that process.
Where to start:
Fortify & Focus
A three-phase group coaching program for the
journey beyond psychiatric drugs and diagnoses
Fortify & Focus is for people who are considering tapering, currently tapering, or finished tapering off psychiatric drugs — and who want support for everything
the clinical world doesn't address.
Over three months, you'll work through a structured cycle of reflection, gain access to resources that expand how you see yourself and your struggles, and meet regularly with a group of people who actually understand.
Built for people who are
asking different questions.
You're deep in psychiatric drug withdrawal and desperate for people who actually understand — and for resources to help you figure out where to go from here.
You received a psychiatric diagnosis in your twenties and are now, a decade later, questioning whether that story still fits — or ever did.
You're a parent watching your kid get flagged at school, handed a referral, and something about the whole sequence feels off but you don't have language for it yet.
You've been in therapy for years, you're basically fine, and you're also not getting better — and you've started to wonder whether the therapeutic frame itself is part of what's keeping you stuck.
If you're here, you already know this feeling.
