61 Mental Health Patients Test Positive for Coronavirus at Louisiana Hospital
From The Advocate: "Phillip Newton, interim president of Local 1695 at AFSCME Council 17, said the outbreak began early last week and administrators were...
Why Coronavirus is Killing Black Americans at Staggering Rates
From Mic: "These inequalities are only the latest in a legacy of this country’s rampant, centuries-long racism against Black Americans. Slavery was justified by...
Mental Health in the Age of Coronavirus
From The New York Times: "The pandemic spreads an existential feeling of unsafety, which registers in the neurons around your heart, lungs and viscera....
Suicide Hotline Sees Rise in Coronavirus-Related Calls. Counselors Feel the Pain
From the Los Angeles Times: The crisis counselors at Didi Hirsch, whose job it is to reassure, need some reassurance of their own.
Experts Warn of Mental Health Fallout from Mass U.S. Unemployment
From The Guardian: "But beyond the dollar signs, economists are worried about the long-term effects that being unemployed will have on Americans’ mental health...
Too Few Are Talking About Health Care Workers’ Mental Health
From Stat News: "Some health care workers are using words like betrayal and coercion and moral injury to describe this experience. They feel betrayed...
People Financially Affected by COVID-19 Experience More Psychological Distress than Others
From the Pew Research Center: "Perceptions of personal threat from the outbreak – whether physical or financial – are also associated with higher levels...
RxISK: Medications Compromising COVID Infections
From RxISK: "In the present situation of pandemia by SARS-CoV-2, it is imperative to avoid pneumonia or pneumonitis and related risk factors as much...
Facing the Coronavirus Crisis Together Could Lead to Positive Psychological Growth
From The Conversation: "Although news reports of hoarding, and panic-buying might make it hard to believe, research shows that natural disasters, like the novel...
The Kids Aren’t All Right
From The Atlantic: The youngest among us will bear the larger burdens of trauma and economic fallout from COVID-19.
Coronavirus Hits Native American Groups Already Struggling With Poor Health Care
From The Wall Street Journal: "As tribal leaders around the country gear up for the pandemic’s arrival, they worry the federal agencies that are...
Lived Wisdom on Panic, Worry and Isolation
From The Dulwich Centre: "Some of us were thinking during this period of global concern with COVID-19 about the idea of knowledges earned through...
Chaos Theory With a Human Face: Niall McLaren, MBBS, FRANZCP
From Psychiatric Times: "Niall McLaren, MBBS, FRANZCP: There is a great deal that ails psychiatry—over-diagnosis, over-treatment, misallocation of resources, consistent breaches of patients’ fundamental...
How to Cope with Radical Uncertainty
From The Guardian: "In 1939, in a sermon preached at Oxford University in the midst of a different global crisis, CS Lewis made a...
Coronavirus, Anxiety, and the Profound Failure of Rugged Individualism
From Vox: "Johann Hari: Depression and anxiety are signals telling us that our needs are not being met, and I would say the single most...
The Impoverishment of Psychiatric Knowledge
From Psychiatric Times: "Giovanni Fava: Like Moliere’s bourgeois who was surprised to speak in prose, the clinician may discover he/she is constantly faced with iatrogenic...
Why it’s Healthy to be Afraid in a Crisis
From The Guardian: "As a mental health professional, I disagree with the message in Paul Daley’s article (We face a pandemic of mental health...
Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From The Laura Flanders Show: "Mab Segrest: In 1960, they’re half a million patients in state mental hospitals. And as those patients came out of...
Why It’s Worth Questioning the Widespread Use of Psychiatric Medication
From The Mighty: "Despite lack of efficacy and the many health risks associated with these drugs, such medications often remain a first-line treatment in both...
How to Talk to Kids About Coronavirus
From The New York Times: "Try to maintain a routine as much as you possibly can. Rebecca Kanthor, a Shanghai-based reporter, wrote a piece...
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.
I Am a Critical Psychiatrist
From MJH Life Sciences: My view of psychiatry is that we need to acknowledge and embrace humility. This is a hard narrative when we live in a culture that values spin over content.
Coronavirus: Temporary Changes to UK’s Mental Health Act
From Rethink Mental Illness: The UK government has proposed changes to the Mental Health Act which, if implemented, will make it easier to detain people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
From Medium: Some hard-won experience from the greatest pandemic in recorded history could help us in the weeks and months ahead.
Social Distancing Is So Hard Because It’s Contrary to Human Nature
From The Washington Post: Feeling socially isolated triggers a fight-or-flight response, just as it would have in our ancestors, for whom being alone could mean being a saber-toothed tiger’s lunch.
