Testimonial Injustice and Borderline Personality Disorder
FromĀ The Huffington Post UK: The diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder frequently serves to invalidate the trauma of women who have experienced abuse.
"āBPDā is so...
Depression may be our Brain’s way of Telling us to Stop
FromĀ Business Insider: Depression may be an adaptation that serves a valuable purpose, not a disease or disorder.
"The basic concept is that what we think...
Depression is an Unlikely Advantage in the Fight Against Fascism
FromĀ AlterNet: The experience of living with and resisting depression can prepareĀ you to resist Trump's fascism.
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Allow Some Mental Health Patients to Self-harm
FromĀ The Independent: According to one researcher, some patients on mental health unitsĀ should be allowed to self-harm. Forcibly stopping patients from engaging in self-harm can...
Ban on Mentally ill People Buying Guns Wasn’t Evidence Based
FromĀ The Washington Post: Republicans are moving to reverse a ban instituted by the Obama administration that prevented certain people from buying guns based on...
FDA Approved Drugs may Become Riskier
From theĀ Center for Health Journalism: President Trump's plans to speed up the process of FDA drug approvals, in combination with the increase of off-label...
Karen Pence Picks a Cause, and Art Therapists Feel Angst
From the New York Times:Ā On Inauguration Day, Karen Pence announced her support for the mental health profession of art therapy. While many art therapists...
Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Harm
FromĀ Scientific American: Recent studies confirm the thesis of Robert Whitaker'sĀ Anatomy of an Epidemic - although prescriptions for psychiatric drugs continue to increase, mental health...
Study Links Working Long Hours With Poorer Mental Health
FromĀ MinnPost: A recent study found that working more than 39 hours per week can lead to significant mental health risks.
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An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump’s Mental State
In this opinion piece for theĀ New York Times, Allen Frances, chairman of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
Sharp Rise in Older Americans’ use of Multiple Psychiatric Drugs
From the New York Times: The number of U.S. older adultsĀ prescribed at least three psychiatric drugs more than doubled between 2004 and 2013, even...
You Might be in a Medical Experiment and not Even Know it
From Aeon: Medical experiments are increasingly being conducted without the informed consent of participants.
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How big Pharma’s Lust for Profit Harms Their Customers
From AlterNet: The increasing pace at which the FDA is approving new drugs can leadĀ to significant risks to patient safety.Ā Drugs that once would have...
I do Hate to Tell you This, but…
In this commentaryĀ for In the Pipeline, Derek Lowe highlights the results from a recent FDA report showing that the vast majority of all drugs...
Why Upgrading Your Brain Could Make you Less Human
In this essay for Aeon, Michael BessĀ presents some of the ways future brain-enhancing technologies could be dehumanizing.Ā
"But if weāre not careful, we ignore the...
Cancer Drug Offers a Cautionary Tale of Deregulating the FDA
To illustrate the dangers of Trump's plans to deregulate the FDA, Susan Perry from MinnPostĀ providesĀ a cautionary tale about Tarceva, a drug approved by the...
The Reasons why Some of us Just Can’t Stop Worrying
From The British Psychological Society:Ā AĀ new review in Biological Psychiatry highlightsĀ the cognitive and emotional factors that contribute to prolonged bouts of worry.
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Trump Wants to Blow up the FDA
From STAT:Ā President Trump plans to decrease regulations on the Food and Drug Administration. Medical experts and healthcare professionals have expressed concerns thatĀ this could expose...
Researchers Push to ID Anxiety and Depression at Birth
"Factors such as genetics, environment, and experiences all have an influence on a person's likelihood of exhibiting signs of mental illness, but the study,...
“Not Not Guilty: My Brother, Schizophrenia, and the State of Illinois”
From The Fix: "This is the reality of where mental health remainsājust as stigmatized and embarrassingly disentangled as it was last year at this...
“Is it Time to Abandon the Medical Construct of Being Normal”
Jonathan Sholl, a professor of medical philosophy in Denmark, writes for Aeon:Ā "In any parlance, the specific meaning of ānormalā has important consequences, especially if...
“94 Psychiatric Patients in South Africa Died of Negligence, Report Finds”
The New York Times reportsĀ on theĀ findings of a South African government investigation that determinedĀ that "94 psychiatric patients died of negligence last year after being...
“The Dangerous Ideal of Mental Health”
"Today... mental health is increasingly understood as a positive state: as something to aspire to. Led by the new academic field of positive psychology...
‘Doctors Gave Me Depression Pills I DIDN’T Need for 20 Years’
Luke Montagu writes in the Daily Mail, "Six years after taking my last dose of antidepressants, I am still suffering from their effects. I...
What Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Gets Wrong About ‘Dissociative Identity Disorder’
Mental health advocates warn that the film stigmatizes dissociative identity disorder and may directly impact those living with it.Ā "You are going to upset and...
