After the Xanax Wears Off…
Many personal stories of people struggling with an addiction that they were never told could happen punctuate an article about indiscriminate benzodiazepine prescribing in...
Stand Up For Your Right To Challenge Scientists
-John Horgan defends a celebrity's right to challenge scientists on vaccines, and points to psychiatry as an example of the dangers of simply deferring to supposed scientific experts.
“Can Mental Health Apps Bring Therapy to a Wider Population?”
From the Pacific Standard: “Mental health apps offer therapeutic solutions at far more flexible price points, schedules, and platforms than traditional therapy. But with...
“Suffering From Depression? Take a Course of Surf Lessons! Doctors Prescribe Watersports for Young...
A pilot program of Britain's national health service prescribes surfing lessons for youth with anxiety disorders. 'What is great is it doesn’t feel like therapy...
Weight Training May Help to Ease or Prevent Depression
From the New York Times: Lifting weights might also lift moods, according to an important new review of dozens of studies about strength training and...
“Health News Review and What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media”
HealthNewsReview.org founder Gary Schwitzer talks to New York Magazine on the media coverage of medical research. “We in journalism have to look in the mirror...
Experts ‘In Denial’ Over Withdrawal Harm From Prescription Pills
From The Herald: MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) Michelle Ballantyne has spoken out about the epidemic of withdrawal effects of prescription pills, critiquing physicians'...
Why It’s Time to Let Psychoanalysis Into Politics
In this piece for Prospect, Susie Orbach explains how insights from psychoanalysis can help us understand our current political, social, and economic climate.
"Politically, socially, ecologically and economically,...
“Mass Shootings’ Most Invisible Victims: The Severely Mentally Ill. We are not the Villains”
On her blog, A Disordered World, psychiatric survivor Jeanene Harlick writes that “prejudicial rhetoric about the mentally ill, following mass shootings, is exacerbating the already-overwhelming stigma, discrimination and oppression we experience as an unrecognized and disadvantaged minority group.”
What Happens When Someone Invalidates Your Feelings
From Dr. Henry Cloud/Boundaries: Connection and trust happen when one heart meets another. What destroys connection and trust like nothing else? Invalidation.
SAVE TRIESTE’S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
From Change.org: The mental health system in Trieste, Italy, which for decades has been widely recognized as a model for good community care, is under threat of being dismantled by a new political faction.
“How to Improve Interactions Between Police and the Mentally Ill”
-Two psychiatrists critically analyze training programs for police officers.
“ADHD: Should We Be Medicalising Childhood?”
London's Telegraph reports: "Despite the fact that Ritalin, which works by stimulating a part of the brain that modifies mental and behavioural reactions, is...
Beyond Meds: “Childhood Abuse is ‘Unpalatable’ and so the Epidemic of Abuse Goes Unchallenged”
Beyond Meds, continuing its legacy of bringing attention to the causes and cures of what is often called "mental illness", presents an article, video,...
I do Hate to Tell you This, but…
In this commentary for In the Pipeline, Derek Lowe highlights the results from a recent FDA report showing that the vast majority of all drugs...
“Drug Firms Have Used Dangerous Tactics to Drive Sales to Treat Kids”
Dr. Mercola writes that "the high rates of psychotropic drug use among foster children and poor children is likely a direct result of drug...
“Should a Mental Illness Mean You Lose Your Kid?”
Pro Publica publishes the story of Mindi, who has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter...
Flint’s Children Suffer in Class After Years of Lead-Poisoned Water
From The New York Times: The city’s lead crisis has migrated from its homes to its schools, where neurological and behavioral problems — real or feared — among students are threatening to overwhelm the education system.
STAT on Changes Coming Under President Trump
On Trump's Inauguration Day, STAT reporters discuss the biggest questions surrounding his administration's impact on healthcare and science policy. "Will improvements in patient care...
“Respite from the Storm”
-There's a resurgence in interest in small peer-run centers that help people who might otherwise land in psychiatric hospitals.
Why Isn’t Big Pharma Paying for the Harm it Caused?
From Alternet: The pharmaceutical industry has played a major role in causing the opioid crisis by downplaying the potentially addictive and fatal effects of narcotic pain...
The Paranoid Fantasy at the Heart of “It”
From Pacific Standard: It, the first feature-film adaptation of a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King, has broken box office records for the horror genre, making...
Child Baker Acts On the Rise in FL: Are We Listening?
From the Hernando Sun: Convincing an impressionable 1st grader that she isn’t a bad person while her wrists are clamped together by cold, locked bracelets of metal is difficult. She will always remember this day.
“The Myth of Self-Control”
Brian Resnick talks to psychologists who say that developing willpower might not be the most effective way to get positive results. “If we could...
Why Parents Should Be Concerned With ‘EQ,’ Not Just IQ
From The Washington Post: We’ve long underestimated and ignored emotional intelligence, especially in kids, instead focusing on academic success and testing them to measure it.
