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Mourning on Schedule: How Grieving Became a 'Mental Illness"
13+ hour, 1+ min ago (1843+ words) I wrote this poem five months after Ginny's passing: Every day I wake up And remember she's not there 5 times a night I wake up And lose her yet again Sometimes In my dreams She comes to me It seems…...
There are no Psychopaths
1+ week, 3+ day ago (196+ words) There are no Psychopaths'Mad in America - Science, Psychiatry and Social Justice From Aeon: "Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on? In modern science, psychopaths are typically described with…...
‘What I See in Clinic is Never a set of Labels’: Are we in Danger of Overdiagnosing Mental Illness?
1+ mon, 14+ hour ago (168+ words) What I See in Clinic is Never a set of Labels: Are we in Danger of Overdiagnosing Mental Illness?Mad In America From The Guardian. "We have developed a tendency to categorise mild to moderate mental and emotional distress as…...
Groupthink in Mainstream and Critical Psychiatry
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (347+ words) Critical psychiatry should continue to point out where mainstream psychiatry falls short, but it's primarily mainstream psychiatry's responsibility to correct itself. It's reasonable to wonder why this is taking so long to do. I believe one major reason is that…...
Exercise for Depression: As Good as Therapy or Antidepressants
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1276+ words) With fewer adverse effects and many benefits beyond depression treatment, exercise may be a better option than therapy or antidepressants. For this reason, researchers have written that exercise meets the criteria to be considered an "evidence-based treatment for depression." Yet…...
Discrimination Linked to More Severe Symptoms in Early Psychosis, Study Finds
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (903+ words) Laura L'pez-Aybar is a critical psychology psychiatric survivor, researcher, and professor with a PhD from Adelphi University. Her work is propelled by a critical, decolonial, and feminist perspective on psychology. Moreover, she currently leads various projects examining stigma, mental health…...
How Depression Is Measured May Shape How Well Psychotherapy Appears to Work
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (712+ words) A new review finds that inconsistent outcome measures in depression psychotherapy trials distort treatment effects and weaken the reliability of the evidence. A new systematic historical and meta-analytic review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found inconsistent and unreliable…...
Why a Popular Depression Questionnaire May Be Getting It Wrong
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1038+ words) A new study finds that most people misunderstand the instructions of the widely used PHQ depression questionnaire, potentially inflating depression scores and leading to overdiagnosis and unreliable treatment decisions. The authors note that this discrepancy may be explained by greater…...
Anti-inflammatory Drugs Fail for Depression
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (560+ words) Response and remission rates failed to beat placebo in a new Harvard meta-analysis, throwing the inflammation hypothesis into question. The chemical imbalance myth (that low serotonin causes depression) was finally put to rest in 2022 with a comprehensive review of decades…...
"I was forcibly medicated for a psychosis I never had"
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (199+ words) Malin Granat, an assistant nurse, tells how she was forcibly medicated with strong antipsychotic drugs for several years - despite a documented Lyme disease infection and without ever having been psychotic. Her story raises questions about legal certainty and patient consent…...