Psychology Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Busting myths about substance use diagnosis and treatment.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

T he RADAR trial is complete. Disappointingly it showed that people who gradually reduce their antipsychotic medication are more likely to relapse than people who continue it. At 2-year follow-up there were no differences in social functioning, symptoms, side effects or quality of life. Yet relapse was far from inevitable and the qualitative analysis showed that some people felt empowered by the opportunity to reduce their medication with official support, regardless of the outcome.

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Kids Mental Health Info

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Adapted from the Child Mind Institute : Psychosis is a condition in which a person loses touch with reality. If a teen has psychosis, they might hear or see things that arent there. Psychosis can be a symptom of an illness called schizophrenia, or less commonly can be a symptom of bipolar disorder , depression, or even (rarely) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Dr. Deb

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Sunday September 10, 2023 is World Suicide Prevention Day. Every 40 seconds someone in the world dies by suicide. This means s uicide is responsible for almost one million deaths every year across the world. Another way to look at this is how Dr. Catherine Le Gals -Camus, from the World Health Organization , describes the rate of suicide each year: " Worldwide, more people die from suicide than from all homicides and wars combined.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

From Dr. Gary Sharpe : “Many of the medicalized drug-based interventions for chronic conditions target one or more of our neurotransmitters, hormones, or peptides. These drugs may given in order to try to bump up or dial down the amount of a specific chemical in our system. Else they may be ‘antagonist’ or ‘agonist’ classes of drugs, intended to either [partially] block or activate, respectively, the corresponding cell receptors for that chemical.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

T he struggle for mad liberation is an unbroken chain of resistance and solidarity that passes from one generation of psychiatric survivors to the next. We remember those who came before us, who witnessed and validated our pain, grief, and rage, and who encouraged us to lift our voices for change. For countless survivors, Linda Andre was that person—whether they knew her personally or through her written words.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

D r. Peter Gøtzsche, Dr. David Cohen, Dr. Chuck Ruby, Faith Myers and I just published our Report on Improving Mental Health Outcomes (Report). It is intended to be used to advocate for the elimination of unwanted psychiatric interventions and to promote the humane, effective, voluntary approaches we know work, such as Peer Respites, Soteria Houses, Open Dialogue, Hearing Voices Network, & eCPR.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

From PsychAlive : “When he was 3-years-old, Kevin watched his dad drive away. For the few months following his parents’ split, Kevin and his brother had moved in with their father. The three of them lived together contentedly until the day Kevin’s mom showed up out of the blue and announced that she was taking the kids back. Pulled away in his mother’s arms, Kevin remembers he and his brother screaming in unison, ‘We want to stay, we want to stay!

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Kids Mental Health Info

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Stop It Now! prevents the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families and communities to take actions that protect children before they are harmed. Offers trainings and informational resources about child sexual abuse prevention, identification, and treatment. The post Stop It Now: Child Sexual Abuse appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Kids Mental Health Info

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI) and the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) maintain this directory of providers of several key evidence-based practices available in Connecticut to treat children and families with behavioral / mental health needs. Evidence-based practices are those supported by research showing that they work for most children.

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Kids Mental Health Info

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

From the Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery, developers of CFTSI: What is CFTSI? The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) is a brief (58 session), evidencebased early intervention for children 7 to 18 years old, young children ages 3-6, and children in foster care, that reduces traumatic stress reactions and the onset of PTSD.

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Kids Mental Health Info

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

CT now has 4 Urgent Crisis Centers (Hartford, New Haven, New London, and Waterbury) for children experiencing mental or behavioral health crises but do not require emergency department care. Learn more on the DCF website. The post Children’s Urgent Crisis Centers in Connecticut appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From Mental Hellth : “In the 2000s and 2010s, something worrying kept happening in the supposedly happy and healthy suburb of Palo Alto, California: kids were committing suicide. The deaths forced some to reckon with a dark side to this tech-centered community. But no one seemed willing to do something about it, partially because doing something about it would challenge the very ethos of Silicon Valley capitalism.

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