Critical Psychiatry
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
I responded (follow my Twitter thread ) to a tweet by Justin Garson (mentioned in previous post ). What he said was:- I cant fathom how a psychiatric diagnosis would ever be useful to anyone except as a tool to get accommodations or drugs. As far as understanding myself who I am, why I act and think as I do it contributes nothing. I do understand what he means (see eg. previous post ).
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in the UK. It was written by Peter Brown, a Hearing Voices group facilitator in Belfast for 20 years. I have a friend who once said – having met him in a mental health unit – that everyone there had “schizophrenia” but he didn’t. He was the first person I talked to in the unit, we’d both used drugs, and he went to the same school as my cousins.
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Child Mind Intitute
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Appointment coincides with $1 million gift from The NVLD Project New York, NY The Child Mind Institute is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Amy Margolis as a Senior Research Fellow. In her new role, Dr. Margolis will drive cutting-edge research initiatives at the Institute, furthering the understanding and treatment of learning disabilities such as dyslexia and non-verbal learning disability (NVLD).
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
An exploratory study has examined metabolomic patterns associated with psychotic-like experiences in adolescents, highlighting the influence of cannabis use.
Real Psychiatry
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
I just got back from the hospital. My wife was admitted with acute appendicitis and is scheduled for an appendectomy in the morning. That sounds like a routine occurrence. There are after all about a quarter of a million appendectomies done in the US every year. I had a complicated case myself at age 18 with a perforated appendix, sepsis, and a weeklong stay in the hospital with a drain in my side.
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
New findings uncover an alarming rise in depression rates among all higher education students in the United States, but especially among sexual and gender minorities.
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