Yearly Archives: 2024
Mental Health Advance Choice Documents âWould Reduce Sectioningâ
From The Guardian: Expert says treatment plans set out while patients are well should be included in Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales.
Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?
Research sheds light on the impact of antidepressants on sexual dysfunction, emphasizing the need for patient-physician communication.
A Dangerous Idea: ‘Bury Bad Thoughts to Boost Mental Health’
From CPTSD Foundation: We are bombarded with tips to avoid, to reject, to minimize emotional distress and deep-seated trauma. But what we shut out of our minds will bubble up to the surface in ways that could be hurtful for ourselves and others.
Antidepressant Use Tightly Correlates with Increased Suicide Rates
While the study canât confirm causality, it does contradict the notion that antidepressants reduce suicide at the population level.
âA Dangerous Substanceâ: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
Grief, Bereavement, Public Health, and Me
In public health, we talk about death. But we donât talk about grief or bereavement. We donât study the hole left behind in the family system or social sphere.
The degree of love: Six semesters and the Convocation Day by Navratra
What if couples celebrate pose day instead of rose day? Teaching each other how to stand in
front of the camera could be the best...
Call for Intervention in Case of Boy Left in Windowless Hospital Room for 56...
From RTE: The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, with the public health service last year apologising for 'deficits in care' he received, including the inappropriate prescribing of heavy anti-psychotic medication.
Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later
A psychiatrist and mom reflects on teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto and discusses alternative ways to address adolescent mental health.
âWe Hold You Sacredâ: Fighting the Opioid Crisis in the Cherokee Nation
From The Guardian: "When we introduce those cultural aspects [into addiction recovery programs] â itâs like their spirit remembers it, because they pick it up immediately and they crave it...It helps them heal," says Ashley Lincoln, an administrator with the Cherokee MAT program.
The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry
Inpatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses.
Canadians Without Life-Threatening Diseases Are Being Encouraged to Consider Suicide
From Newsweek: The risk of medical practitioners recommending MAID as a cost-cutting measure to alleviate strain on the health care system is unsettling, as suggested by a 2020 analysis estimating potential savings of $66 million annually in health care costs.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)
Les Ruthven addresses benzodiazepines and whether substance abuse disorders should be considered brain diseases.
Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of SpeechâSo, What Now?
Donât researchers and clinicians have an ethical responsibility to inform the public that the "chemical imbalance" story is false?
Peaceful Reflections on the Past from âOne Who Got Awayâ
The pain has gone now, and I am grateful for who it has made me â a happier person than before. Perhaps broken open a bit, but in a good way.
A Mad Poem about Mad Poetry (by a Mad Poet)
Verse! Wild!
Let it be wild and uncontrolled!
Consider not whether it passes muster
In the logic-schools,
Or marks time with the monotonous regularity
Of clopping hooves of horses...
Moving From Crisis Response to Crisis Prevention in U.S. Mental Health Systems
From STAT: In Chicago, community organizers are lobbying for the 'Treatment not Trauma' approach, which is neither a psychiatric nor police model but a public health model of community wellness.
Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression
Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?
In the US, ‘Mental Health Treatment’ Can Be a Death Sentence
From The Nation: Deploying the language of âhelpingâ those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a Band-Aid but a club.
How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients
Doctorsâ diagnostic inflexibility and unwillingness to take an integrative approach limits patientsâ autonomy in their own treatment.
Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine
A new review finds a lack of available guidance on how to effectively monitor adverse effects of antipsychotic drug clozapine.
I Heard Some Voices and They Were Magnificent
Even though my 'psychosesâ have been beautiful, you also need a safe place to be able to process them.
Joey Marino Dies; ‘ER’ Actor Had Developed Severe Tardive Dyskinesia
The actor had become disabled by the movement disorder after being prescribed Seroquel for anxiety.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)
On antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine, and drugs for postpartum depression.
Modern Culture Is Traumatizing and NOT Normal | Gabor Maté, MD
From Commune: Drawing conclusions about human nature from how we live in this society is like trying to understand a wild animal inside a cage.
