Antidepressant Adviser to UK Gov’t Quits After Conflict of Interest Row
From The BMJ: " Baldwin was the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ representative on , which was set up to review the potential effects of...
25% of Older Adults Prescribed Benzos Go On to Long-Term Use
From Scienmag: "On average, the patients were 78 years old when they received their first benzodiazepine prescription — an advanced age for use of the...
APA President on Why Women May Not Report Sexual Assault
From the American Psychological Association: "'Sexual assault is likely the most under-reported crime in the United States. About two-thirds of female sexual assault victims do...
Climate Change Will Increase Deaths by Suicide
From The Conversation: "Suicide is already among the leading causes of death worldwide. For people aged 15-55 years, it is among the top five...
75% of Med Students on Antidepressants or Stimulants (or Both)
From Pamela Wible MD: "In 1990, even I was severely depressed as a first-year med student. So my mom (a psychiatrist) mailed me a bottle...
Officer May Have Driven Around Flooded Road Barriers, Killing Patients
From Buzzfeed News: "The law enforcement officer behind the wheel of the van overtaken by floodwaters Tuesday in South Carolina, killing two women who were being...
Two Women Seeking Mental Health Care Drowned in Sheriff’s Van
From The New York Times: "Sometime that evening, the van, carrying Ms. Green and Wendy Newton, another woman being transported to a mental health...
U.S. Psychologists Seek to End Torture Programs They Helped Design
From Alternet: "It’s modestly encouraging that this August two-thirds of governing body voted against a resolution that would have returned psychologists to sites like...
Antidepressants May Cause Antibiotic Resistance
From Medical Xpress: "A key ingredient in common antidepressants such as Prozac could be causing antibiotic resistance, according to new University of Queensland research.
A...
The Educational Tyranny of the Neurotypicals
From WIRED: "Ben Draper, who runs the Macomber Center for Self Directed Learning, says that while the center is designed for all types of children,...
APA Statement on Proposal to Lengthen Detention of Child Migrants
From the American Psychological Association: "Following is the statement of American Psychological Association President Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, in response to the Trump administration’s...
Teen Mental Health Crisis Magnified by Demise of Creative Subjects
From The Conversation: "To thrive emotionally, young people need their own time and space, that is not explicitly directed at particular outcomes. This should...
Normalizing the Voices in Our Heads
From CFJC Today: "Hearing voices is often regarded as a sign of mental illness. But maybe voices are just part of a spectrum.
Professor T....
The Capitalist Origins of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test
From Medium: "We tend to think of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a frivolous internet distraction, akin to the hundreds of BuzzFeed quizzes that help us pass...
Closure of Second Story Worries Local Mental Health Advocates
From Good Times: "The news that Second Story Peer Run Respite House—Santa Cruz’s only alternative to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization—is closing its doors at the...
Social Injustice and Inequality in the Care System
From Psychologists for Social Change: "Professionals tend to talk about families’ problems in terms of the chances of something bad happening to them. We,...
Beating the Odds of Early Death Due to Childhood Trauma
From KQED News: "Emotional neglect, physical abuse, divorce, a household riven by addiction — science shows that traumas like these in childhood cause poorer...
Changing the Way We Communicate About Patients
From BMJ Opinion: "A 53 year old woman with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. A 36 year old acutely suicidal man off psych meds. A...
“Honest” Placebos Effective in Treating Health Problems
From TIME: "The medical community has been aware of the placebo effect–the phenomenon in which a nontherapeutic treatment (like a sham pill) improves a...
Sign the Petition: Fund Peer Respites in King County, WA
Community Peer Respite Planning Council is petitioning King County Council Chair Joe McDermott to fund peer respites in Seattle/King County, Washington. Help them get the needed...
Why Modern Medicine Is a Major Threat to Public Health
From The Guardian: "Rather than address the root cause of these conditions through lifestyle changes, we prioritise drugs that give – at best –...
When Mental Health Treatment Becomes a Violation
From InDaily: "In the early 2000s when I was detained in a psychiatric hospital I was treated against my will, I was even secluded....
OpEd Misrepresents Effects of Black Box Warning
From The Lown Institute: "The authors’ conclusion is that the warning is preventing children and young adults from receiving needed treatment, and therefore, 'It’s...
My Feelings Are Not My Enemies
From On Being: "I don’t need to look far for the source of my opinions about emotions. Then, as now, I lived in a...
Feeling Suicidal, College Students Are Told to Go Home
From The New York Times: "When Harrison Fowler heard about the counseling center at Stanford, where he enrolled as a freshman last fall, he...
