Mad in America
JANUARY 21, 2025
I am looking for Sam. I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. She was very funny, beautiful and kind. With lustrous blond hair, she was liked by everyone, including the nurses. We became friends at once. I always found it important to make friends if I was in a hospital (a few times). I never believed in solely individual resilience.
Critical Psychiatry
JANUARY 21, 2025
Ive mentioned before my concerns about the notion that antidepressants work through being emotional suppressants (see eg. previous post ). In fact, Im more inclined to think antidepressants dont work any better than placebo (see eg. last post ), so theres no need to explain how antidepressants work, as such. Although the emotional numbness theory has been promoted by Joanna Moncrieff, in her recent book she does qualify this hypothesis by saying she thinks we should be cautious about assuming em
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Mad in America
JANUARY 21, 2025
You are a world. You are not a sign, a category, a personality, a label, a diagnosis, a spectacle, a thing to be analyzed, or figured out. Others who lost their world will try to eat your world to be their world. You are a world of infinite possibility. We do not know you totally, and anyone who promises they do, wants to consume you. They secretly say, and I know it well, Come, be like me.
Critical Psychiatry
JANUARY 21, 2025
Im not sure who advised the king about the appointment of Ed Bullmore as Regius Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at Kings College London (see announcement ). I wrote a satirical, even rude, review of Bullmores book The inflamed mind a few years ago (see previous post ). As Ive always said, psychiatry has been too dominated by biomedical psychiatrists, like Bullmore (see eg. previous post ).
Child Mind Intitute
JANUARY 21, 2025
How weve created a secure space for teens to share their thoughts At Mirror , we give teens a private space to write about their feelings, allowing them to express themselves freely and make the most of their journaling practice. We know that privacy is essential for genuine self-expression, which is what makes journaling powerful. But we also know that safety is important.
Sanity Daily
JANUARY 21, 2025
5/5 - (1 vote) Beating self-doubt as a woman is as important as you breathe without even thinking about it. Because it is very easy to judge and doubt your own efforts when no one is clapping for you. Self-doubt and procrastination are not only time thieves but energy killers too. They ruin the beauty of your life and destroy your goals. When you doubt your own feelings, emotions, efforts, commitment, dedication, and determination, you lose control of your life.
National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the
JANUARY 21, 2025
A lot happened in the U.S. in 1970 from the Apollo 13 rescue and first-ever Earth Day to the debut of American Top 40 and start of the iconic New York City Marathon. While all of that was unfolding, the National Council of Community Mental Health Centers, just a year into its formation , was busy planning its inaugural conference. The goal? To bring together leaders from hundreds of community mental health centers (CMHCs) in Philadelphia for learning, networking and organizational planning.
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