The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward...
Though there are obstacles, integration of peer support is already underway thanks to change agents in the mental health system.
Prison Is Even Worse When You Have a Disability Like Autism
From The Marshall Project: State officials often fail to identify prisoners with developmental disorders, a group that faces overwhelming challenges behind bars, from bright lights to noises to social dynamics.
Common Side Effects Leading to Antidepressant Discontinuation
New research finds the negative drug effects most commonly associated with initiating antidepressant discontinuation are anxiety, suicidal thoughts, vomiting, and rashes.
Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach
Psychiatry’s depression outcomes are poor because its bio-chemical-electrical treatments are based on a depression model that science has flushed down the toilet.
The Mothers Fighting a Scandal Bigger Than Thalidomide: ‘We Were Told the Medication Was...
From The Guardian: Since the 1970s, it has been known that the epilepsy drug sodium valproate can harm babies in the womb. So why was it prescribed to pregnant women?
Benzodiazepines in Canada: Is a Withdrawal Crisis Looming?
Why are benzos, for short-term use only, being doled out, in some cases, for years? Nicole Lamberson and Mark Horowitz weigh in.
Taking Prozac During Pregnancy Can Affect Fetal Brain Development: Study
From New York Post: A new study provides evidence that antidepressant use during pregnancy can impact child brain development and contribute to the risk of mental health disorders later in life.
‘It Was a Joint Effort’: Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister’s Story to...
Author Deborah Kasdan discusses her memoir of her late sister, "Roll Back The World."
The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools
Educators and parents must equip children with the necessary tools to meet the normal problems of childhood that psychiatry attempts to address.
Mental Health Advance Choice Documents ‘Would Reduce Sectioning’
From The Guardian: Expert says treatment plans set out while patients are well should be included in Mental Health Act reforms in England and Wales.
Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?
Research sheds light on the impact of antidepressants on sexual dysfunction, emphasizing the need for patient-physician communication.
A Dangerous Idea: ‘Bury Bad Thoughts to Boost Mental Health’
From CPTSD Foundation: We are bombarded with tips to avoid, to reject, to minimize emotional distress and deep-seated trauma. But what we shut out of our minds will bubble up to the surface in ways that could be hurtful for ourselves and others.
Antidepressant Use Tightly Correlates with Increased Suicide Rates
While the study can’t confirm causality, it does contradict the notion that antidepressants reduce suicide at the population level.
“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
Call for Intervention in Case of Boy Left in Windowless Hospital Room for 56...
From RTE: The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, with the public health service last year apologising for 'deficits in care' he received, including the inappropriate prescribing of heavy anti-psychotic medication.
Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later
A psychiatrist and mom reflects on teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto and discusses alternative ways to address adolescent mental health.
‘We Hold You Sacred’: Fighting the Opioid Crisis in the Cherokee Nation
From The Guardian: "When we introduce those cultural aspects [into addiction recovery programs] – it’s like their spirit remembers it, because they pick it up immediately and they crave it...It helps them heal," says Ashley Lincoln, an administrator with the Cherokee MAT program.
The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry
Inpatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses.
Canadians Without Life-Threatening Diseases Are Being Encouraged to Consider Suicide
From Newsweek: The risk of medical practitioners recommending MAID as a cost-cutting measure to alleviate strain on the health care system is unsettling, as suggested by a 2020 analysis estimating potential savings of $66 million annually in health care costs.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)
Les Ruthven addresses benzodiazepines and whether substance abuse disorders should be considered brain diseases.
Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?
Don’t researchers and clinicians have an ethical responsibility to inform the public that the "chemical imbalance" story is false?
Moving From Crisis Response to Crisis Prevention in U.S. Mental Health Systems
From STAT: In Chicago, community organizers are lobbying for the 'Treatment not Trauma' approach, which is neither a psychiatric nor police model but a public health model of community wellness.
Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression
Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?
In the US, ‘Mental Health Treatment’ Can Be a Death Sentence
From The Nation: Deploying the language of “helping” those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a Band-Aid but a club.
How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients
Doctors’ diagnostic inflexibility and unwillingness to take an integrative approach limits patients’ autonomy in their own treatment.
