7 Tips for Parenting Parents
Psychology Today
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Placebo Effect—Not Antidepressants—Responsible for Depression Improvement
Mad in America
DECEMBER 25, 2023
In a study of fluoxetine (Prozac) for adolescents, researchers found that the placebo effect predicted good outcomes, but the actual drug treatment did not. After accounting for “treatment guess” (those who figured out that they were receiving an intervention rather than placebo), the drug was not effective in depression treatment. In fact, those who received a placebo but thought they received Prozac improved more than those who received the drug and knew it.
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Day # 151: Why We Sleep: An Overview of Sleep Physiology
Bullet Psych
DECEMBER 28, 2023
Today we will begin a new theme: sleep disorders. We will start by providing an overview of important sleep physiology. Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Why Do We Sleep? 1 , 2 Why we sleep remains one of natures greatest mysteries. The average person will spend about 27 years of their lifetime sleeping. Sleep is essential for many vital functions and a number of theories have been proposed regarding the purpose and function of sleep.
Complex Trauma & PTSD Support Resources 2023
Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD
DECEMBER 23, 2023
Here are all the new articles and videos of this year 2023. I hope you will take your time to read, listen, or reread these resources. Here are the posts: Complex PTSD & The Power of Rebuilding Boundaries Crush It With These 4 Trauma Support Insights Trauma Informed Care 7 Simple Tips to Success How Your Complex PTSD Freeze Response Screws You and Protects You at The Same Time Emotional Coping & PTSD: Learn 2 Strategies for Recovery Here are the videos: You Thoughts Aren't just Your Tho
Season’s Greetings 2023 from the President
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
DECEMBER 19, 2023
It is not easy to write this seasonal message given the situation in which our world finds itself: crises on all continents, terrorist attacks, armed conflicts and wars, societies split by polarising views, houses washed away, and forests burning. According to the World Health Organization, War, armed conflict and other man-made or natural disasters cause profound distress and can in some cases ignite or inflame existing mental health conditions.
ABMR Virtual Symposium
Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR)
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Climate science and environmental justice: What it means for behavioral medicine 1 pm EST / 12 pm CST / 10 am PST | 2 hours Visit the event page for speaker bios and to register!
Perfectionism in the Legal Profession & Its Relationship to Lawyer and Law Student Mental Health: An Interview with Jordana Confino
Lawyers with Depression
DECEMBER 13, 2023
With a J.D. from Yale Law School , a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, Certifications in Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology, two federal judicial clerkships, and a former Adjunct Law Professor of the Year award at Fordham , Jordana Confino understands the unique stressors and demands of the legal profession. And as a recovering perfectionist and overachiever, she is excruciatingly familiar with the limiting beliefs that prevent people from reaching their highest potential.
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From Gang Member to Mental Health Advocate
NAMI
DECEMBER 11, 2023
I grew up in an inner-city community in San Diego, California, called Southeast. This area has always been known for crime, drugs and most notably gangs. Despite my familys well-intentioned efforts to keep me away from gangs, the gang culture still pulled me in. In 7 th grade, I was caught in the perfect storm. My mother and stepfather divorced; my 18-year-old cousin, who I looked up to, was being sent to prison for a life sentence due to a gang-related incident; and I was failing significantl
Why Decorating Early for the Holidays is a Good Thing
Dr. Deb
DECEMBER 7, 2023
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adelphi University (@adelphiu) Did you decorate early for the holidays? Deborah Serani, Psy. D, senior adjunct professor of psychology shares the science behind how decorating for the holidays can help our mood.
WPA President launches 2023-2026 Action Plan
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
DECEMBER 14, 2023
WPA President Professor Danuta Wasserman intends for her Action Plan to boost the mental health of patients, psychiatric staff, and the general public through encouraging and enabling psychiatrists and the field of psychiatry to embrace communication, prevention, international collaboration, and a new leadership role in society. According to Prof. Wasserman, This strategic initiative aims to transcend traditional boundaries, extending mental health advancements beyond the realms of psychiatry an
Challenging, Sustaining, and Evolving: An Anthology on Youth Mental Health Advocacy (and Hope)
Mental Health America (MHA)
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Challenging, Sustaining, and Evolving: An Anthology on Youth Mental Health Advocacy (and Hope) December 07, 2023 MHA Admin Thu, 12/07/2023 - 10:46 Download the 2023 Youth Report Amid this youth mental health crisis, several young advocates have emerged to challenge the status quo, insisting that the world pay attention. Young people have mobilized, organized, and fought to usher in a new era of mental health advocacy, and they are finally being invited to the table.
Sanctuary Centers Announces Groundbreaking Ceremony
Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers
DECEMBER 6, 2023
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sanctuary Centers is getting ready to break ground on a five-story, affordable housing and healthcare facility on Dec. 14. The building will feature 34 units of affordable housing. Sanctuary Centers is focused on providing secure housing options for those with mental illnesses. The facility will include medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics.
Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis
Mad in America
DECEMBER 18, 2023
What happens when you give antipsychotic drugs at the first sign of psychosis? Worse outcomes, according to a new study in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. Those who did not receive antipsychotics within the first month after being diagnosed with their first episode of psychosis were, on average, almost twice as likely to be in recovery five years later than those who did immediately receive the drugs.
Unpacking Depression: An Interview with Psychologist Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg
Lawyers with Depression
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Todays guest is Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg. Dr. Wehrenberg is a clinical psychologist in Naperville, Illinois. She is the author of six books on the treatment of anxiety and depression published by W.W. Norton, including, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It and Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders.
Political advocacy and psychotherapy don’t mix
Reidbord's Reflections
DECEMBER 31, 2023
Two senses of psychotherapy is political are often conflated. The first is the notion, popular lately, that psychotherapy either allows or demands political advocacy in the therapy room itself. The other is recognition that political factors influence the nature and practice of psychotherapy. It is a conceptual error to confuse the two, and a [.] The post Political advocacy and psychotherapy dont mix first appeared on Reidbord's Reflections.
Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology
Mad in America
DECEMBER 7, 2023
P rescription drugs require verification that they are helpful, not harmful. Considerable data show this is not true for psychiatric drugs. Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.
Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say
Mad in America
DECEMBER 11, 2023
In a new article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), 30+ prominent figures in critical psychiatry call on the UK government to acknowledge the evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebos for most patients and to increase funding of social and psychological interventions while decreasing drug prescriptions. “Multiple meta-analyses have shown antidepressants to have no clinically meaningful benefit beyond placebo for all patients but those with the most severe depression,” they wri
Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain
Mad in America
DECEMBER 29, 2023
O n the evening of December 3, 2022, I overdosed on 400 mg of Amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker blood pressure medicine. I was in ICU for 11 days, and on a ventilator for four of those days. I’m still here, having been found the following day despite myself. So to back way up, as a kid I was brilliant. Funny, compassionate, athletic and so much more.
Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient
Mad in America
DECEMBER 1, 2023
“T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke. This is as true on a world stage as in a playground setting, where the bully holds sway over numerous kids who are too afraid to challenge their behaviour. It is how and why the tyrants prevail. So what, you may ask, has this to do with the psychiatric paradigm of today?
After MIA Calls for Retraction of STAR*D Article, Study Authors Double Down on the Fraud
Mad in America
DECEMBER 6, 2023
O n September 9, Mad in America published a lengthy report on the STAR*D scandal, describing how Ed Pigott and colleagues, in a series of publications dating back to 2010, had shown that the STAR*D authors violated the protocol in numerous ways to grossly inflate the announced remission rate in that study. This past August, Pigott and colleagues delivered a final crushing blow.
A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints
Mad in America
DECEMBER 5, 2023
I t is extremely rare that anyone succeeds in changing the horrible laws we have in all countries about forced treatment with psychiatric drugs and belt restraints. I shall therefore tell a story from Denmark. It is so unusual that his obituary was written by a journalist and published in a national newspaper. Silas Dam (photo courtesy of his mother) Silas Dam killed himself this summer, only 24 years old.
Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023
Mad in America
DECEMBER 30, 2023
H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse. In recent years, teaching kids “emotion regulation” has become an increasingly large part of teachers’ responsibilities.
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
O n the Mad in America podcast this week, we continue our reader Q&A with Mad in America founder Robert Whitaker. In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History
Mad in America
DECEMBER 13, 2023
O n the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners. Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to get in touch. You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.
ADHD Drugs Linked to Cardiovascular Disease
Mad in America
DECEMBER 5, 2023
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that long-term use of ADHD drugs is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. According to the current research, led by Le Zhang of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, service users are at a 4% greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for each year of ADHD drug use. The largest increase in risk for cardiovascular disease occurs in the first three years of ADHD drug use.
Irish Orgs. Pledge to Adopt ‘Human Rights-Based Approach’ to Mental Health Care
Mad in America
DECEMBER 18, 2023
From The Irish Times : “A new training approach to mental health care was launched by the Mental Health Commission (MHC) in Ireland on Wednesday, together with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Organisations from the public, private and NGO sectors across the country gathered in Dublin to pledge to promote a ‘human rights-based approach’ to mental health care across the State.
An Inability to Visualize the Future (Let Alone a Positive One) Is a Hallmark of Trauma
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2023
From Psychology Today/Annie Wright LMFT : “‘Why do I struggle to visualize a future for myself, let alone a positive one?’ In the 10 years I’ve been practicing as a clinical psychotherapist, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some iteration of this question. And the question is almost always paired with some degree of incredulity that there are people out there who can really, truly do this—think forward decades into the future and visualize a positive, happy outcome fo
Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years
Mad in America
DECEMBER 27, 2023
O ne of the greatest things about this country that we live in is the freedoms we enjoy. Those freedoms were embedded in my parents. They believed in them, serving the country that proclaimed them after growing up in families that served as well. They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
It’s OK to Never ‘Get Over’ Your Grief
Mad in America
DECEMBER 4, 2023
From The New York Times : “Over the past century, traditional mourning practices have fallen out of favor in the West. Black is now usually worn only to a funeral, and not always then. Fewer and fewer people return to visit the deceased at their place of rest regularly; annual memorial services are especially rare. The sight of someone wearing mourning jewelry made of jet can strike a modern observer as a touch macabre.
The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy
Mad in America
DECEMBER 14, 2023
“Healing is the result of love. It is a function of love. Wherever there is love there is healing. And wherever there is no love there is precious little— if any—healing.” —M. Scott Peck I write this because I want people who have gone through the process of the clinical trials, or in the grassroots underground psychedelic movement, to not feel alone if they felt silenced, controlled, or interpersonally hurt.
Antidepressants and the Tangle of Treatment-Related Suicidality
Mad in America
DECEMBER 8, 2023
From Psychiatry at the Margins : Awais Aftab interviews Martin Plöderl, PhD, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at a public psychiatric hospital in Salzburg, Austria, whose research focus is on suicide prevention with a recent focus on the efficacy of antidepressants. “Overall, my take is that the evidence for adults remains somewhat inconclusive.
The Great Grey Beast
Mad in America
DECEMBER 8, 2023
M y name is Kyle Hulbert; I am No-One’s Son, The Boy Nobody Knew, and I am the detritus of the great grey beast that is the American psychiatric system. I was born in 1983; that might not be particularly important in and of itself, but it’s the beginning so that’s where we’ll start. I’m not sure what happened in the first three years of my life to prompt it, but when I was three I began receiving medications for what has only ever been described in my records as
The Words That Stick Forever
Mad in America
DECEMBER 22, 2023
R ecently someone said to me: “You’re not even trying.” Actually, they shouted it. This person was someone I needed to trust. A medical professional, in fact. As she and her team attempted to forcefully sedate me, rather than offering calming or encouraging words, she chose angry and cruel things to say. I am quiet; I have always been accused of being “too quiet.
Therapy by Script Undermines Healing; Connection Is the Key
Mad in America
DECEMBER 21, 2023
“We need to describe how human beings unfold and become very beautiful when listened to. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content. It is a depth of richness that needs only interactive reception to open out, step by step, into a creative self-correcting development with freshly discovered wanting, personal ethics, and unique work in the world.
“It Is What It Is” — Learning From the Past Without Getting Stuck in It
Mad in America
DECEMBER 15, 2023
I t was my Pearl Harbor Day, only I had no FDR to rally me with fireside chat to encourage a heroic comeback. Nevertheless, like USS Arizona and Utah, I lay immobile from what felt like a sneak attack. In the dim quiet of the calculatingly sterile room I was alone, awash with discouragement and sunken in the icy depths of depression. My head jerked to the side repeatedly, unpredictably and uncontrollably, to my chagrin.
Psych Patient Held Against Will Discharged After FOX31 News Inquiry
Mad in America
DECEMBER 6, 2023
From FOX31 Denver KDVR : “When Jonathan Delgado-Concepcion checked himself into Centennial Peaks Hospital on Oct. 18, he thought he might be there for a few days — a week at the most. Instead, the 28-year-old found himself trapped at the behavioral health hospital in Louisville, unable to leave even after he said he felt his mental health was better. ‘Suddenly, everything started to turn to a nightmare when they started to basically hold me against my will,’ Delgado-Concepcion
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)
Mad in America
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses the difference between basing a medical system on clinical belief versus one based on scientific evidence. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. “It’s not what you know that kills you.
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