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...
Medicalizing Society
From Jacobin: "...the idea that population-wide rates of despair and social dysfunction should be understood as biological diseases, rather than the result of rampant...
Depression in Pregnancy May Alter Babies’ Brains
From Medscape: "Women with depression and anxiety during pregnancy may be more likely to have babies with altered brain development that might be linked...
Ketamine Antidepressant Could Bring Opioid-Like Addiction Risks
From The Independent: "Ketamine-based treatments for severe depression could further fuel the addiction epidemic sweeping the US, researchers have warned, after a new study found the...
The Shock Treatment: ECT on the Rise in British Columbia
From The Tyee: "Most of us associate ECT with the torture endured by Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and think it’s...
Warnings About Benzodiazepine Use in the Elderly Go Unheeded
From Medscape: "Despite years of warnings about the hazards of prescribing benzodiazepines for the elderly, these drugs continue to be used at a higher...
Horrific Deaths, Brutal Treatment: “Mental Illness” in America’s Jails
From The Virginian-Pilot: "The Virginian-Pilot tracked the cases of 404 people with mental illness who have died in America’s jails since 2010. The total...
Open Medical Records Spur Frank Talk Between Doctors and Patients
From NPR: "As more and more doctors' offices give patients electronic access to their medical records, both patients and their physicians are asking: Exactly...
1 in 12 Kids on Mult. Meds. at Risk for a Major Drug Interaction:...
From ABC News: "Among those using multiple medications, one in 12 was at risk for a major drug interaction, and the vast majority of...
Teen Xanax Abuse Is Surging
From The Pew Charitable Trusts: "Teen drug use during the summer often goes unnoticed. It’s when school starts and students nod off in class, exchange...
Water Withheld as “Punishment” at Mayo, Ireland Mental Health Facility
From Independent.ie: "Patients in a long-stay HSE-run mental health facility had to bang on the window of a nurses' station to ask for a...
Don’t Tell Me to Shut Up: The “Et Tu, Brute” Stigma of “Mental Illness”
From Psych Central: "After sharing my eccentric journey to recovery in a new book, I’ve been accused of being anti-psychiatry. I’m not anti-psychiatry. I’m...
The Uphill Battle Against Los Angeles Police Killings
From The Guardian: "Police shot Mack, a 30-year-old father of two, in the middle of a mall on the afternoon of 10 April, as...
Release Prisoners from the Psychological Torture of Solitary
From the New York Daily News: "One candidate for New York governor, Cynthia Nixon, wants to abolish solitary confinement in our prisons. To New...
Studies Often Fall Short on Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures
From Kaiser Health News: "Papers in medical journals go through rigorous peer review and meticulous data analysis.
Yet many of these articles are missing a...
Announcing New Critical Psychology and Social Practice Website
From Critical Psychology and Social Practice: "Scholars in critical psychology have demonstrated how the dominant ‘scientific’ and applied psychologies (and psychologists, therapists, and counselors)...
Stewart Dolin’s Widow Loses $3 Million Verdict for Paxil Suicide on Appeal
From The American Lawyer: "A federal appeals court has thrown out a $3 million verdict awarded last year to the widow of a former Reed...
Bad Benzos: Cass Narburgh’s Parting Message to the World
From Bad Benzos: "Please educate yourselves, the medical community, and the general public about the devastating effects of benzodiazepines."
An Urban-Rural Divide Over Gun Suicide
From The Bend Bulletin: "A recent review of studies on firearm ownership and suicide found that a gun owner had a 300 percent higher...
FSU Survey for Suicide Attempt Survivors
From Florida State University: "Are you a suicide attempt survivor? Researchers at Florida State University have teamed up to better understand the psychological and...
Technology Shows Us How Antidepressants Are Changing Animals’ Behaviour
From The Conversation: "Antidepressants don’t just affect human libidos. New research shows that female starlings fed food spiked with the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), were less 'attractive'...
How to Find a Fat-Positive Doctor Who Won’t Just Tell You to Lose Weight
From Broadly - VICE: "I've been over 200 pounds for the majority of my adult life. When I went to see doctors as an adolescent, my weight...
How Our Mental Health Struggles Are Linked With Each Others’
From Alternet: "'Just about every mental affliction is actually an adaptive response that then becomes a source of problems later on,' Maté says. 'People...
Deemed “Mentally Incompetent,” Hundreds of Alabamians Disenfranchised
From AL.com: "Policies concerning whether people with mental disabilities and people who have been placed under conservatorship can vote vary greatly from state to state. Some...
Colleagues Say World’s Top Empathy Researcher Bullied Them
From Science: "Tania Singer, a celebrated neuroscientist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, is...
