America’s Lack of Bereavement Leave Is Causing a Grief Crisis
From Business Insider: In America today, as in other nations around the globe, people are being robbed of the time to properly experience their emotions.
Doctor Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation for Prescribing Off-Label Drugs for COVID
From FLCCC Alliance: A highly accomplished Maine physician's mental health is being questioned because she went "off-script" to save her patients' lives.
Mold, Benadryl, & Antipsychotic Drugs: Report Raises Alarms About a Mass. Mental Facility
From The Boston Globe: Potent drug cocktails have replaced physical restraints at Bridgewater State Hospital, a medium-security facility that was sued in 2014 over conditions and use of restraints and seclusion.
Depression: Compulsive Self-Deception | Alice Miller
From alice-miller.com: Depression is not a form of suffering that relates to the present; instead it is caused by the separation from one’s own self, abandoned early on, never mourned for, and accordingly doomed to despair and death.
Why We Shouldn’t Push a Positive Mindset on Those in Poverty
From Psyche: Mindsets are not free-floating: they are neither optional strategies that everyone can freely adopt nor value-neutral ways of enhancing wellbeing.
She Was Headed to a Locked Psych Ward. Then an ER Doctor Made a...
From The Washington Post: "It’s a cautionary tale," said neurosurgeon Ray M. Chu. "People get pigeonholed" if they have a psychiatric diagnosis.
Nature Is Healing: Some Canadian Doctors to Prescribe National Parks Passes to Patients
From National Parks Traveler: Evidence shows the health benefits of nature time range from better immune function and life expectancy to reduced risk of heart disease, depression and anxiety.
Fairness, Justice, and Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler
From Daniel Mackler/Wild Truth: Unresolved trauma tends to twist people's sense of fairness and justice because they lose perspective on where they are and who they are in relation to other people.
Are You ‘Mentally Ill,’ or Very Unhappy? Psychiatrists Can’t Agree
From The New Statesman: As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are we experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?
When Meds Taken “As Prescribed” Still Cause Harm
From Lown Institute: The upcoming documentary "As Prescribed" shares the stories of people in all stages of benzo withdrawal and the massive impact benzos have had on their physical, social, and financial health.
New Lancet Commission Looks at the Medicalization of Death
From Lown Institute: "How people die has changed dramatically over the past 60 years, from a family event with occasional medical support, to a medical event with limited family support." ~ Libby Sallnow, co-chair, Lancet Commission on the Value of Death
As Conservatorship Abuse Gains More Attention, More Activists Speak Out Against It
From The Daily Kos: "Saying that you’re going to remove someone’s rights in order to protect them doesn’t make any sense," said activist Marian Kornicki. "People need support, but you don’t remove their rights to do that."
The 7 Biggest Problems Facing Science, According to 270 Scientists
From Vox: In recent years, many scientists have become afflicted with a serious case of doubt — doubt in the very institution of science.
Mother of 11-Year-Old Who Died by Suicide Sues Social Media Firms Meta, Snap
From The Washington Post: The lawsuit alleges Selena Rodriguez’s suicide was "caused by the defective design, negligence and unreasonably dangerous features of their products," the Social Media Victims Law Center said in a statement.
Crisis Text Line Shares Data With For-Profit Spinoff, Raising Ethical Questions
From Politico: While the hotline says the data it shares is "anonymized," ethics experts and some volunteers are raising concerns about users' lack of meaningful consent.
Time to Acknowledge the Bias of Some ECT Researchers and Defenders
From The Lancet Psychiatry: If electroconvulsive therapy is so very effective and so very safe, why is it used only by a tiny and dwindling number of psychiatrists?
How to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children
From TED: What would it be like if we helped parents unpack their own childhood, so they don’t have to carry that baggage and put it on their children’s shoulders?
What a Spiritual High Shares With a Mental Breakdown
From Aeon: Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform.
It’s Misleading to Call Addiction a Disease
From The New York Times: The view of addiction as disease fails to capture much of the experience of addiction, and disease language is not necessary to make the point for humane treatment.
Hospital Uses Court to Keep Patient for a Year, Charges $1.2 Million and Drugs...
From ABC Action News: "If we don’t get justice for Jimmy, your family’s next," his sister said. "Someone should be held accountable, but will anybody? I don’t know."
‘Please Don’t Murder Me’: PETITION & SHIELD ALERT for Pa. Elder David Italiano
MindFreedom International and Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living are attempting to locate and establish the well-being of Mr. Italiano, who has ‘disappeared’ and is being denied outside contact by a government-funded agency.
Professor John Read: Antidepressants & Withdrawal Research
Medicating Normal speaks with the psychologist and chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal on topics ranging from deprescribing to attachment and child development.
Feds Open Investigation of SC Group Homes for Adults With ‘Mental Illness’
From The Post and Courier: "Most of them, they’re horrible. It’s nowhere that you would ever want your family member to be," said Kimberly Tissot, executive director of Able SC.
Opioids Feel Like Love. That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times.
From The New York Times: America can’t arrest its way out of a problem caused by the fundamental human need to connect.
Suicide, Indian Farmers, Indigenous North Americans… and the Shame of Shrinks | Bruce Levine,...
From CounterPunch: Mental health professionals must do their part to foment rebellion against the sociopolitical status quo, rather than enable it.
