Psychology Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The who, what, where, and how of suicidal thinking.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). These called for a radical change in the practice and organization of mental health care across the world. The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field o

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NAMI

OCTOBER 6, 2023

At the risk of showing my age, I preface this blog post by saying, "back when I was a kid, all we did was hang out with each other.” We'd go to the mall, play sports, hang out at each other’s houses and go home only when we had no other choice. As a licensed school psychologist, I’ve noticed that young adults’ social experience is different now.

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Mental Health America (MHA)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A Framework for Public Healths Role in Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention October 05, 2023 MHA Admin Thu, 10/05/2023 - 17:01 Download the framework Download supplemental framework document In 2023, Mental Health America, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Center for Law and Social Justice Policy (CLASP) created an equity-centered framework to characterize public health's unique role in suici

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Bullet Psych

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Today will be our review quiz for the eating disorders theme. Take a few minutes and check your learning. 1) Which of the following are not recommended admission criteria for patients with anorexia nervosa? a) Heart rate < 50 b) Blood pressure < 80/60 c) Cardiac arrhythmia d) BMI < 15 or weight <70% of ideal body weight 2) For which eating disorder is fluoxetine considered the first-line medication option?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I t was about 10 years ago I wrote in a MIA blog post that if I thought that it was possible, I would have opened a string of clinics all over the country to help get people off of antidepressants. Unfortunately, the problems that sometimes occur when people try to stop an SSRI antidepressant are still much more severe and long-lasting than the medical profession acknowledges, and there is no antidote to these problems.

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NAMI

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I have been in remission from symptoms of serious mental illness (SMI) for 11 years; however, there was a period of my life that was extremely difficult when my symptoms were severe, involving multiple psychotic breaks. I was filled with heartache and despair, and recovery was uncertain. During the early days of my recovery, I would have benefitted in critical ways from NAMI’s programs, but I didn’t know about them.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. In this blog, he discusses withdrawal and how to taper off psychiatric drugs. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. P sychiatrists and other doctors know very little about abstinence symptoms, which they mainly reject, and about how to taper off psychiatric drugs safely. 135 One should never sta

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

E yes blurry and staring at his class notes, he was frozen. Fleeting thoughts of not wanting to live darted across his mind. Patrick couldn’t stop obsessing about the test a week away. He had been an honor student throughout high school, but the pressure of college triggered his panic — which he described to me, afterward, during a therapy session. In my practice, this is a situation I have seen many times.

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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Y ouths are facing a mental health crisis. Schools need to dedicate more time and resources to address it, but they also need to be careful about how they do it. America has a track record of stigmatizing mental health struggles, particularly the mental health struggles of students with historically marginalized identities. As a former student with a learning disability, I experienced firsthand how stigmas around behavioral differences can alienate and deplete the self-esteem of Neurodivergent a

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From Psychiatry at the Margins/Awais Aftab : “This is probably partly why you felt my book did not deal well with the ‘ethical complexities of involuntary psychiatric care’—because I don’t think involuntary psychiatric care is ethically complex, I think it’s bad. I see forced psychotropic drugging and forced electroconvulsive therapy as blunt hammers smashing down on complicated circumstances and complex brains.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

From Igor Chudov : “The WEF’s annual meeting in Davos held a very important and exciting [ sic ] seminar discussing ‘Brain Transparency.’ It featured new but working technology that allows scanning of the human brain via wearable devices (no electrodes needed). Such scans allow AI-enabled computers to read and interpret the wearer’s state of mind by instantly understanding recorded brain waves.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

From PsychCentral/Darius Cikanavicius : “If you look at a very small child, at someone who’s still for the most part untraumatized and unbroken, you notice that children can be exceptionally honest. As I write in the book Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults : Meanwhile, infants and small children are exceptionally authentic beings because their emotional reactions and their thoughts are raw and honest.

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Kids Mental Health Info

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Urban Trauma Network Initiative was created in response to the national reckoning on racism that occurred in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Black, Indigenous, and Latine children and youth of color have been disproportionately affected by the continued increase in urban violence and the impact of structural, institutional, and personal racism intersecting with the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When I think about a 24-hour day I know I am going to have ongoing obsessional thoughts coupled with observations that constantly spring forth in my mind all throughout the daylight. It’s like you’re having a conversation with yourself when you’re by yourself. My mind only gets a temporary break when I engage in a conversation with a human being.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

M y long and complicated lifelong relationship with mental health issues and mainstream psychiatry takes place across three different countries. It all started quite early in my life. I experienced severe emotional neglect and abuse by my parents while growing up. They were respected people; they both had successful careers. They were also both amateur photographers.

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