Moral and Political Implications of the DSM
-A special issue of Public Affairs Quarterly examines "the moral and political implications" of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
It’s Time to Emotionally Prepare for What’s Coming
From Medium: We would do well to start preparing our stock, not just of physical needs like food, but emotional needs like strength, resolve, and the ability to grieve.
Dr. Gabor Maté on the Truth About ADHD and Anxiety
From The Joe Rogan Experience: "The so-called experts say that ADHD is 'the most heritable mental illness there is,'" says renowned physician Gabor Maté. "But I say, it's neither an illness, nor is it heritable."
If Autism Isn’t a Brain Structure Difference, Then What?
In Discover magazine, Neuroskeptic examines a new, large-scale study of brain anatomies of people with autism, calling it an "earthquake" in autism research and...
The FDA’s Latest Black Box Warning: Don’t Mix Opioids, Benzos
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday mandated updated labels for nearly 400 opioids and benzodiazepines, following a review of scientific evidence and a citizen...
UK ‘Sleepwalking’ to Mental Health Crisis as Pandemic Takes Its Toll
From The Guardian: Health experts and charities have said that lockdown uncertainty, fear, isolation and loneliness will be exacerbated by the colder and darker months ahead.
Three Ways Mental Illness Is Misdiagnosed in Children (humor)
From The Situational Therapist: A marriage and family therapist offers an irreverent take on what's really going on when a child gets 'diagnosed with a mental illness.'
“Mental Illness Mostly Caused by Life Events Not Genetics, Argue Psychologists”
According to psychologists, “mental illness is largely caused by social crises such as unemployment or childhood abuse.” If this is so, why are we...
Your Anxiety is a Political Issue
From Extra Newsfeed: Anxiety is a political issue, resulting directly from marginalization and structural inequality. The solution to anxiety is not self-help culture but activism...
‘She Was Unrecognisable’ – Families Warn of Fatal Effects of Antipsychotic Drug Clozapine
From The Guardian: Clozapine is heavily restricted in other countries but concerns about its potentially fatal side-effects in the UK appear not to have been heeded.
“Book of Lamentations” – DSM-5 as a Dystopian Novel
The New Inquiry reviews the DSM-5, calling it a "classic dystopian novel" in the surrealistic literary tradition of George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley,...
“Thin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It’s Like to Live Enslaved...
Brainpicking’s Maria Popova reviews “Thin Slices of Anxiety” by Catherine Lepage — “an illustrated meditation on what it’s like to live enslaved by one’s...
New Podcast – is it Really Mental Illness?
From the University of Liverpool News: In a new podcast, Dr. Peter Kinderman, the vice-president of the British Psychological Society, argues that emotional distress is...
AntiDepAware Is No Longer Active
From Behaviorism and Mental Health: The website, whose goal has been to raise awareness of the dangers of antidepressants, should be required reading for psychiatrists and anyone who prescribes psychiatric drugs.
NYC: Social Workers, EMS to Replace Cops on Non-Violent Mental Health Calls Citywide
From PIX11: A pilot program that has kept NYPD officers away from many mental health crisis calls in parts of Manhattan will expand to every precinct citywide, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday.
Time for Mental Health Professionals to Speak Truth to Power
From Dr. Terry Lynch/Mental Health Academy: It is no longer acceptable for mental health professionals to do nothing in the face of a mental health paradigm that is built upon misinformation and false claims.
Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
From Psychiatric Times: Awais Aftab interviews Dr. Sami Timimi on his latest book, Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them.
For Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism Is Rooted in Loneliness
From Aeon: Organised loneliness, bred from ideology, leads to tyrannical thought, and destroys a person’s ability to distinguish between fact and fiction – to make judgments.
Illness Inflation: Expanded Medical Definitions Create More Patients
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has issued a watchdog report titled “Illness Inflation” that examines how new medical conditions are often the product of industry...
Kids Are the Victims of the Elite-College Obsession
From The Atlantic: Education has been eclipsed by marketing..."It comes down almost to marketing one’s soul, which gets to undermining the meaning of one’s entire life."
More States Requiring Mental Health Education by Law
From TODAY: "Often, it's like the elephant in a room. It's something that they feel like, 'Oh, it's only me,'" said one teacher. "Letting them know that they're not alone...is so important."
IFS: The Revolutionary Treatment That Could Change Psychotherapy Forever
From Elemental: "If it is true that these things we think of as our inner enemies are really heroes stuck in time, that allows people to relate inside with a lot more compassion and love."
‘Mental Illness’ Was a Label Assigned to Me Until I Took Ownership of My...
From PublicSource: Labels were always attached to me without my permission. They haunted me every time I wanted to heal from my past traumas, to be truly myself.
Common Off-label Drug for Autism No Better than Placebo
The Alzheimer's drug memantine (also known as Ebixa or Namenda) is being regularly used off-label in the treatment of childhood autism, Asperger’s, and Pervasive...
Video Captures Patient Crawling Out of Hospital After Staff Dismiss Pleas for Help
From CBC: "They thought I was faking it because I was bipolar," said David Pontone. "There are no words to describe what I went through that night."
