Mental health issues ripple through the federal workforce with firings
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The way the terminations have been carried out will undermine the efficiency and productivity of workers left behind, expert says.
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Dear Psychiatrist: I Almost Died Under Your Care
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
D ear Psychiatrist, As an educator of 20 years, I often reflect on the good and bad semesters Ive had. I sometimes cringe at some of the silly or stupid comments I said and also think about things I included in lessons that didnt have much to do with the unit we were studying at the time. I ask myself, What was I thinking? But what you do is far more important and far-reaching, literally involving the lives of your patients.
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Las drogas digitales nos tienen enganchados. Esta psiquiatra ve una salida
The New York Times -- Mental Health
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Anna Lembke, psiquiatra y autora de Generacin dopamina, quiere que encontremos el equilibrio en un mundo de tentacin y abundancia.
Are We Incompatible? Can You Really Love Someone So Different To You?
The Online Therapist
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
We are all individuals, formed from different experiences and we often judge our compatibility on how we see our new partner in the early stages of a relationship. In this phase, our incompatibility is hidden by our need to connect and is driven chiefly by hormones (sometimes repetition compulsion)and brain chemical, not common sense.
Indoctrinating people into taking antidepressants
Critical Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
People are being misled about the nature of mental illness. Of course brain abnormalities can cause organic mental illness, such as delirium or dementia. But most presentations of mental health problems are not caused by brain abnormalities. Using depression as an example, people have been encouraged to see depression as a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Is the Teaching of Psychology Liberal or Conservative? Yes! (But Mostly It’s Neither)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
APS Calls for Bipartisan Support for Psychological Science. Such was the recent message from our international Association for Psychological Science to its members, and to the U.S. Congress, on the heels of science funding cutbacks and calls for restrictions on the teaching of psychology. That leads us, and our critics, to ponder: Does the teaching of psychology support liberal rather than conservative values?
Parents, are you worried about burnout? Here are 3 red flags to watch out for
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
2024 advisory. That leaves parents with less time for themselves, their partners and leisure activities.'/> Parenting can keep you on your toes all day. But if you find it so physically and mentally draining you can't enjoy family time, it may be a sign of burnout. Here's what you can do about it.
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Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
The New York Times -- Mental Health
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The nations largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots masquerading as therapists, but programmed to reinforce, rather than to challenge, a users thinking, could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others.
The Neuroscience Behind Attachment: Healing from Codependency
The Online Therapist
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
I read a lot of self-help books and they are mostly all the same. Change your thinking and change your life. However, there is one book that I have returned to many times. It is not technically in the self-help genre, more technical, but it holds information essential to understanding how we see relationships.
Scientists discover key protein in resilience to stress
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
When faced with chronic stress, why do some people develop anxiety and depressive symptoms while others show resilience? A protein that acts as a cannabinoid receptor and is present in the structure controlling exchanges between the bloodstream and the brain could be part of the answer, according to a new study.
Are You a Cat Person or a Dog Person? Here's What Psychology Has to Say
Very Well Mind
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Are you a dog person or a cat person? And if you relate to one more than the other, what does this say about your personality? Learn about the psychology of being a cat vs. dog person.
You have more control over your emotions than you think
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You.'/> In his new book, Shift , psychologist and neuroscientist Ethan Kross busts common assumptions about how to manage big feelings and explains why it's OK sometimes to avoid them for a while.
Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
I t should be relatively easy in almost all cases to decide if a person has committed suicide or tried to commit suicide. But as with so much else in psychiatry, this can be negotiated, obscured, and influenced by commercial conflicts of interest. 1 Randomised trials Many suicides and suicide attempts have been omitted from published reports of the randomised trials, and the omissions are biased, favouring drugs over placebo. 1-3 Meta-analyses of suicidal events based on published reports will t
Alvin F. Poussaint, 90, Dies; Saw Racism Affecting Black Mental Health
The New York Times -- Mental Health
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic bigotry.
Exploring Therapy: Talk vs. Action
The Online Therapist
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
In the end, therapy is not just about understanding the past but about creating meaningful change in the present moment. While awareness is a crucial first step, it must be followed by action otherwise, we risk remaining stuck in old patterns.
What happened to the Serotonin Hypothesis?
Real Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Biogenic amine hypotheses of depression date back 60 years at this point. Ron Pies and I reviewed a couple of the key papers by Kety, Schildkraut and others that were some of the first to apply what was known about biogenic amine neurotransmitters to depression. These papers were elegantly written, keenly aware of the dangers of biological reductionism, and very clear that much more study needed to be done to either accept or reject the biogenic amine hypotheses.
Learning How to Actively Listen: In Conversation With Stephen McLeod-Bryant, MD
Psychiatric Times
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
The president of Black Psychiatrists of America shares his thoughts on making a difference for Black communities, the removal of the REMS for clozapine, and more.
In the LA fires and the NC floods, 'CPR for mental health' treats unseen wounds
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
From Altadena to Asheville, people devastated by recent disasters encountered helpers trained in Psychological First Aid. Like CPR, anybody can learn it.
Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
I t can no longer be denied that antidepressants double suicides, both in children and adults. As I recently described on the Mad in America website, this has been shown in randomised trials and in the most rigorous meta-analysis I have seen of observational studies. However, psychiatric leaders have denied for over fifty years that depression drugs cause suicide.
Too Sentimental to Declutter? Start Here.
The New York Times -- Mental Health
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Decluttering experts share their best tips.
Rethinking Relationships: Embracing Individuality
The Online Therapist
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
At its core, rethinking relationships means embracing the beauty of individualityboth our own and that of our partners. True connection doesnt come from losing ourselves in another person but from standing confidently beside them, growing independently while sharing our journey. By fostering self-awareness, open communication, and mutual respect, we create relationships that thrive not on dependence, but on appreciation.
21 Rare Ways To Find Your Life Purpose As A Woman
Sanity Daily
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
5/5 - (1 vote) Rare ways to find your life purpose as a woman and make your life worth living every day. Who can give this power to you? Me? Your spouse? Your parents? Your in-laws? ONLY YOU. There is a very thin line between can and can’t, just a difference of an apostrophe as you see it and as you apply it. But the willingness to travel the road and overcome that line is all that matters and changes the story of your life.
Bridging the Gap: Why Black Voices Must Shape Mental Health Research
NAMI
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
My journey with mental health didnt just shape my perspective; it led me to this work. As Director of Mental Health Equity Innovation at NAMI, I bring both professional expertise and personal lived experience to the fight for mental health equity. I know firsthand the impact of being overlooked, misdiagnosed, and misunderstood. Thats why Im committed to making sure Black/African Ancestry voices are at the center of research, advocacy, and care.
Health care is key for youths getting out of prison. A new law helps them get it
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
It's common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid.
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
A s we look back on the year and the decade, lets celebrate millions of people advocating for better outcomes in mental health care. Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. Through mutual aid, weve challenged medical misinformation, built peer support forums and groups, and shared learning and experience from a harm reduction perspective.
New Study: Cognitive Aerobic Exercise Boosts Working Memory
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
February 27, 2025 Cognitive-aerobic exercise improves working memory more than aerobic exercise alone in children and adolescents with ADHD, according to a new study 1 published in Frontiers in Psychology. Previous research has shown that exercise relieves ADHD symptoms by increasing endorphins and neurotransmitters in the brain. This new study is the first network meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of various exercise interventions on working memory in children with ADHD.
Psychiatry is doomed to conflict about the value of psychiatric medication
Critical Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Doctors have always exaggerated the advantages of medication. But medication, including recreational drugs, cant just be eliminated. There are plenty of people that say that psychiatric medication has helped, despite its disadvantages (see eg. previous post ). This experience cannot be denied, even if it is due to the placebo effect. Mainstream psychiatry will never accept that psychiatric medication is not effective.
In Memoriam: Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, A Model of Black Mental Health
Psychiatric Times
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
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It’s Time for Psychiatrists to Reach Out to NPs and PAs
Psychiatry Online
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
Suicide rates are rising for Black teens, new research finds
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Recent data shows suicide rates for Black teens, and the causes are not known. Gabriel, 14, talks about how he is perceived in the world and how that affected his mental health.
Psychiatric Butchery: What I’ve Seen at a Homeless Shelter for Women with Children
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
T his is all written to the best of my memory. I worked, I had a life. But then I languished on disability for twenty-six years. Dystonia, kidney failure, possibly the hypothyroidism was my lot for serving as a drug whore for psychiatry. At least, my neurologist stated the dystonia was probably caused by the medications. You get worse and worse and so did my diagnosis.
TIFT #119: How Important is Insight?
How Psychiatry Works
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Darwin shocked the world into a new level of humility when he showed that humans aren’t the center of the world but derived from apes. Well, the wave of humility hasn’t quite finished its washing up the beach. The last barrier is consciousness-centrism. I, too, have been guilty of seeing the mind from the point of view of consciousness. I, too, have caught myself thinking (and writing) of the unconscious mind as different but equal.
Sticking to the argument about whether antidepressants work
Critical Psychiatry
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
I worry that the clash between Joanna Moncrieff and Awais Aftab about her new book Chemically imbalanced has become too personal (see eg. last post ). For example, Awais recent blog post criticises Jo for her methods rather than necessarily actually what she says. In many ways, how Jo expresses her critique is irrelevant. What matters is the content of what she says.
Pre-Loss Grief and the Emotional Cost of Saying Goodbye in Advance
Very Well Mind
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Grieving a loved one as they face an age-related illness brings about complicated emotions. Experts share ways to cope with these feelings and manage the process.
Campus Psychiatry Is Challenging, Rewarding, and Deeply in Need of Resources and Staffing
Psychiatry Online
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
A cure for winter doldrums? Making the most of cozy season
NPR - Mental Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
We're over a month into winter, and many people are trying to chase the winter blahs away. We have some suggestions from our 2-person NPR Cozy Culture Crew.
Deadly Prescriptions: New Study Links Antipsychotics to Life-Threatening Risks in Dementia Patients
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
A new study published in BMJ has found that antipsychotic use is associated with severe, life-threatening conditions in people with dementia. The research, led by Pearl L. H. Mok of the University of Manchester, highlights an increased risk of stroke, pneumonia, acute kidney injury, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and other serious outcomes. These risks are highest immediately after starting the medication, particularly within the first week of use.
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