Owing More and Feeling Worse
From Psych Central: "While we may consider the reasons we go into debt — from falling prey to strategic advertising that encourages us to buy now...
Why Do So Many Men Die by Suicide?
From Slate: "In a survey my organization, Promundo, carried out with support from Axe, of 1,500 young men aged 18–30, we found that nearly 1 in 5...
Here’s a Surprising Extreme Heat Risk for 1 in 6 Americans
From NBC News: "White is among the one in six Americans who take psychiatric medications. Many can interfere with the activity of the hypothalamus, a...
Joint Public Statement on U.S. Immigration Policies
Several psychology groups have released the following public statement on U.S. immigration policies and practices:
"This statement is an official statement of the specific signatories...
Separated-at-Birth Triplets Met Tragic End After Psych Experiment
From the New York Post: "'Three Identical Strangers' chronicles a story so wild that, as Shafran says in the film, 'I wouldn’t believe if...
New Study Examines How Police Killings Affect Black Americans
From PBS News Hour: "Police killings of unarmed black Americans negatively affect the mental health of black adults in the states where the fatal incidents...
Suicides Have Increased. Is This an Existential Crisis?
From The New York Times: "Empirical studies bear this out. A felt lack of meaning in one’s life has been linked to alcohol and drug...
FDA Shakes Up Guidance on Antidepressant Trial Design
From MedPage Today: "The FDA released new draft guidance for development and testing new pharmacologic agents indicated to treat major depressive disorder (MDD).
For example, the new guidance...
Sounding an Alarm Over Children’s Mental Health
Guardian readers respond to news about soaring Ritalin use, the underfunding of child mental health services and the toll GCSEs are taking.
"As a group of...
A Review Identifies Characteristics That Increase Burnout Risk
From The British Psychological Society: "Burnout rates were higher in psychologists who were less experienced, and also in those with less subjective confidence in their...
To Fight Burnout, Organize
From The New England Journal of Medicine: "The social determinants of health — and physicians’ sense of powerlessness in the face of them — seem...
Pursuing Choice, Not Truth: Debates Around Diagnosis
From Asylum: "Once we opt for a single story around mental health, whether that’s the story of illness, or the story of trauma, then...
Scientific Opinions — For Sale
From Medium: "This is where evidence based medicine is supposed to shine, by demanding randomized trials to prove that certain procedures/drugs either work or don’t....
A Haunting Exploration of a Holocaust Survival Story
From Aeon: "In Nach Am Leben (I’m Still Alive), the Australian animator and illustrator Anita Lester reflects on the harrowing and tragic life of her late...
Revisiting Szasz: Myth, Metaphor, and Misconception
From Psychology Today: "Szasz's ideas on psychiatry and mental illness can roughly be summarized as follows. First, mental illness is a metaphor for human problems...
Doctor Drugging Migrant Kids Lost Certification Years Ago
From Reveal News: "The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas...
A Third of U.S. Adults on Medications That Can Cause Depression
From MinnPost: "More than a third of adults in the United States may be taking prescription medications that have depression or suicidal thoughts as...
Children on Antipsychotics at Risk for Weight Gain and Diabetes
From U.S. News: "Children and adolescents treated with antipsychotic medications experience weight gain and develop an increased risk of diabetes, according to a new...
Antidepressants Work for Major Depression! Not So Fast
From Medscape Psychiatry: "This latest meta-analysis claims to have found something different—that antidepressants are effective. In fact, its results are basically the same...
Who is Responsible for Preventing Suicide?
"A suicide hotline can give a suicidal person someone to talk to. I don’t want to downplay the importance of that. When someone needs...
Is Rising Inequality Responsible for Greater Stress and Anxiety?
From The Guardian: "Now Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the authors of The Spirit Level, have returned with a new book, The Inner Level: How More...
The Neural Signature of Community Violence
From UNDARK: "In our data, we found that witnessing violence in early adolescence predicted smaller volumes of both the hippocampus and amygdala in this...
Early Birds Less Prone to Depression
From Medical Xpress: "Middle-to-older aged women who are naturally early to bed and early to rise are significantly less likely to develop depression, according...
Can Psychedelics Prevent Suicide?
From Big Think: "One commonality among those contemplating suicide is a lack of meaning in life. Someone doesn’t care about them, the world doesn’t...
Being Transgender is No Longer a Mental Illness
From Newsweek: "The World Health Organization no longer considers gender incongruence—a condition experienced by some transgender people—as a mental disorder.
The United Nations health agency...
