Tragic Schoolboy Was Prescribed Huge Increase in Anti-Depressants
From Belfast Telegraph: Johnny Shields, 14, who tragically took his own life had been prescribed up to a 700% increase of controversial anti-depressant drugs in the months leading up to his death.
Common Statistical Method Conflates Withdrawal with Relapse
Researchers argue that common study methods for psychiatric drugs may inadvertently minimize withdrawal effects and inflate drug efficacy.
BBC Sitcom Pilot: “Disordered: The Health Assessment”
From BBC Sounds: For a limited time: Listen to a new sitcom pilot by George Mason about an optimistic but struggling single dad dealing with long-term mental health issues.
2017 Study: Nearly a Third of FDA-Approved Drugs Had Problems
From CNN: Out of 222 new drugs approved, 61Â need to have black box warnings subsequently added to call attention to serious or life-threatening risks.
How Should Psychedelic Medicine Handle “Flashbacks”?
Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) is one of the after-effects neglected amid the rapid march of the psychedelic renaissance. But is the impulse to pathologise these perceptual changes helpful?
The Time I Didnât Get Enlightened: My Silly Visit to the Emergency Psychiatric Facility
From Dan Latner/Medium: Iâm baffled that such a pleasurable and transformative experience as I had was immediately pathologized as a mood disorder.
Overuse of Psychiatric Drugs is Worsening Public Mental Health, Doctor Argues
A new research article asserts that the overuse of psychiatric drugs may create neurobiological changes that hamper long-term mental health recovery.
What Helps Long-Term Users of Benzodiazepines and Z-Drugs Discontinue?
Current long-term users of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs identify barriers and facilitators for discontinuation.
NHS Trusts Criticized Over System That Films Mental Health Patients in Their Bedrooms
From The Guardian: The Oxevision system, used by 23 NHS trusts in some psychiatric wards to monitor patients' vital signs, could breach their right to privacy and exacerbate their distress.
Getting A Diagnosis Meant That My Sister Never Had the Chance to Resolve Her...
My sister was told if she took medications everything would be fine. But everything was not fine, and the medications sent her down a path of no return.
How Emotions Affect Our Cognitive Functioning | Gabor Maté, MD
From Gabor Maté, MD: Nature has given us the capacity to tune out or dissociate as a survival mechanism to escape overwhelming stress.
Kenneth Kendler: âImplausibleâ That Psychiatric Diagnoses Even âApproximately Trueâ
In JAMA Psychiatry, prominent psychiatrist Kenneth Kendler writes that psychiatric diagnoses are âworking hypotheses, subject to change.â
Art-Making as an Alternative Philosophy of Care During Emotional Crisis
From National Empowerment Center: MIA Arts Editor Karin Jervert gives a talk on the role of creativity in the healing process as part of the "Compassionate Approaches to Crisis" webinar series.
Mental Health Care Must Support Consent and Basic Human Rights
Despite the UNâs strong stance against involuntary treatment, many countries continue to uphold legislation that encourages it.
The Essence of Illness
From Psychology Today: Your body creates symptoms based on sensing cues of safety or threat. Sustained mental or physical threat â current or past â will cause serious illness and disease.
When It Comes to Mental Health Problems, The Disability Framework Fails
Treating those struggling with emotional distress and troublesome behaviors as mentally disabled is a barrier to arriving at humane and dignified ways of assisting them.
Drugs as the New Parents
From Mark Goulston MD/Psychology Today: Do emotionally orphan children turn to drugs to fill the void?
A Politics of Care: How the Science of ACEs Deepens Our Emotional Vocabulary
From SuzanneZeedyk.com: In the 21st century, we find ourselves at the very beginning of a public consciousness of the âcatastrophic burdenâ of emotional poverty.
Book Review: “Opening Up: The Parenting Journey”
This is a book about stories, urging families to recognize their own strengths and create new narratives on the path ahead.
Lithium No Better Than Placebo for Preventing Suicide Attempts
A trial in veterans who had survived a previous suicide attempt was stopped early because the drug was found to be no better than a placebo.
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Here’s How to Survive
Sean Gunderson, who was detained by the criminal justice system for 17 years after receiving an NGRI verdict, documents the life of a forensic psychiatry inmate.
Trauma, Trust and Triumph: Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on How to Recover from...
From The Guardian: His 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score, has become a huge pandemic hit, topping bestseller lists this summer and becoming a meme on social media. What does it tell us about the world we live in?
The Woman Who Pioneered âHousing Firstâ
From YES! Magazine: Three decades ago, one nurse came up with a radical idea: Give homeless folks suffering from addiction and 'mental illness' a safe place to be themselves.
It’s In Your Head: Why Reducing All Problems to ‘Mental Health Issues’ Hurts Humanity
From RT: The framing of an increasing array of social issues in mental health terms raises important questions about how we are being asked to think about the problems that face us.
Break Down. Wake Up. podcast â 009 – Integrating an Epiphany Through Daily Practice...
How a ski accident gave a practical philosopher the insight to liberate his own self worth from the judgments of others and to discover his own career path.
