Doctors Too Reliant on Pfizer’s Depression Questionnaire
FromĀ The Telegraph: Depression is being overdiagnosed due to doctors' reliance on a nine-question form designed by pharmaceutical company Pfizer to assess patients for depression.
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Here’s a Great This American Life Segment About Being Neurotic
FromĀ Science of Us: This week'sĀ This American Life, which addresses questions regarding whether extraterrestrial life exists, reveals a great deal of truth about what it...
Instagram Worst App for Young People’s Mental Health
FromĀ CNN: A British study found that Instagram has a negative effect on young people's mental health, especially on young women's body image. The Royal...
Reintroducing Spirituality Could Address the Mental Health Crisis
FromĀ The Independent: Society's cycle of compulsive consumerism and materialism is partly to blame for Britain's mental health crisis. Instead of merely referring people to...
Bullying’s Lasting Impact
FromĀ Science Daily: A new study shows that studentsĀ who experience bullying in the fifth grade are at a higher risk for depression and substance use...
I Smoked Weed Three Times and Ended Up in Rehab Hell
FromĀ VICE: In her recently published memoir,Ā The Dead Inside,Ā Cyndy Etler tells her story of being abused and subjected to attack therapy in a teen rehab...
The Virtues of Boredom
FromĀ The Atlantic: Like loneliness, boredom is an emotion that almost everyone feels, but almost no one talks about. Boredom may be useful in revealing...
Is School Driving Kids Literally Crazy?
FromĀ FEE: School may have a negative impact on children's and teens' mental health: children's psychiatric emergency room visits drop precipitously overĀ the summer and increase...
Yes, I Hear Voices, But No, I Don’t Want You to Call Me Mentally...
In this piece forĀ The Independent, Rachel Waddingham describes her experience with hearing voices as well as learning to live with and understand her voices.
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Mental Health is Different for People of Color in These 3 Ways
In this piece forĀ Rest for Resistance, Dom Chatterjee discusses the white-centricism of mental health as well asĀ the specific ways that the mental health system...
PTSD, Psychotropic Medication Increase Dementia Risk
FromĀ Healio: Researchers recently found that veterans diagnosed with PTSD and prescribed antidepressants or atypical antipsychotics are at a higher risk for dementia than veterans...
We Need Ecstasy and Cocaine in Place of Prozac and Xanax
FromĀ Aeon: While psychiatric drugs are often ineffective and can have serious side effects, there are many psychedelics and other illicit substances that have proven...
Beyond the Hysteria, What “13 Reasons Why” Gets Right
FromĀ Medium: "13 Reasons Why," the most-watched series in Netflix history, raises many important real-life concerns that need to be addressed, such as the impact...
One in Five Truck Drivers Experience Mental Health Issues
FromĀ ABC News: According to the Transport Workers' Union, one in five truck drivers report having experienced mental health issues due to the economic pressures...
When Disability is Misdiagnosed as Bad Behavior
FromĀ Pacific Standard: People with hidden or invisible disabilities are often subjected to violence and verbal abuse, as well as denied accommodations and asked to...
Racism Linked to Poor Health Outcomes in Children
New study finds children who have been exposed to discrimination show higher likelihood of anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
The Moment the Narrative Changed?
FromĀ The British Psychological Society: BBC Horizon's recent documentary "Why Did I Go Mad?" has been monumental in changing the biomedical paradigm of mental illness....
Four-Part Series on Drug Abuse, Trauma, and How to Heal It
In this four-part seriesĀ on drug abuse and trauma,Ā Parents Opposed to PotĀ provides an overview of the impact of adverse childhood experiences, how they persist, and...
If Money can Make you Happy, can Debt Make you Sad?
FromĀ Aeon: WhileĀ research shows that having financial resources contributes to our happiness and satisfaction, borrowing money and being in debt add to our dissatisfaction and...
Mental Health Awareness Month: Seven Things to be Aware of
In this piece forĀ Truthout, Noel Hunter lists seven facts it is important to be cognizant of during Mental Health Awareness Month, from the influence...
Why Social Media can Never Fill the Void in our Depressing Lives
FromĀ VICE: According to Marcus Gilroy-Ware, author ofĀ Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media, society's widespread use ofĀ social media stems from and is exploited...
Childhood Adversity May Increase Risk of Suicide
Swedish study suggests experiencing adversity in childhood is linked to dying by suicide as an adolescent or young adult.
13 Reasons to Watch 13 Reasons Why
FromĀ Acting NT: Many mental health advocates have objected to the Netflix seriesĀ 13 Reasons Why, which centers around the suicide of a teenage girl. Here...
The Link Between Opioids and Unemployment
FromĀ The Atlantic: A recent study found that increases in unemployment rates are associated with increased opioid overdoses and emergency room visits.
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Immigrants Suffer Higher Rates of Psychosis
FromĀ The Conversation: Research suggest that immigrants experience psychosis at rates two to five times higher than non-immigrants, likely due to exclusion and discrimination. Maintaining...
