Increased Prevalence of Depression and Insufficient Treatment Options among...
As the lede of this article says, an increase in teen depression and the continuing problem of insufficient treatment options are especially relevant in light of the Sandy Hook tragedy. In a nutshell,...
View ArticleAndrew Solomon’s “Anatomy of a Murder-Suicide” is A Must Read
Solomon treats each “cause” thoughtfully, but what I love from this opinion piece in today’s NY Times is his proposal that we treat mental health as we do dental health with regular checkups and...
View ArticleDo antidepressants work? The answer is yes. Find out how the media got the...
As someone whose life has been saved by taking antidepressants for depression, I’ve been incensed and frustrated by the dominant media narrative of the last several years, the one that says...
View Article2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 13,000 views in 2012....
View ArticleIn Light of Newtown “Families As First Responders”
Here’s a particularly powerful paragraph from a great article by psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer in The Atlantic. He’s talking about families as first responders in mental illness, in the wake of Newtown....
View ArticleTen Essential Qualities of Science Bloggers, from PLOSBLOGS
(Dec 31 2012) My year end post celebrates great science blogging. With most of our regular PLOS Network bloggers taking some time off to cool their laptops and pop some corks, I set out this morning to...
View ArticleA List Far Too Long, from Boston Globe
This post made my heart ache — remembering what it was like trying to find the right therapists for my sons — and then figuring out how to pay for their care. Truly, as the author points out, parity...
View ArticleIs PTSD Contagious? from Mother Jones
I’ve excerpted a piece from an important article on PTSD in active duty and veterans’ families — showing it as a contagious mental disorder. A friend of mine is one of the therapists the military has...
View ArticleNew Study: Significant genetic overlap found for 5 different mental...
What comes to my mind after reading of this sort of genetic finding is that it lends support to the view of mental illness as a cluster of related but different disorders that play out over generations...
View Article“A Mind in Danger” Wins 2013 ASJA June Roth Best Medical Journalism Award
I’m thrilled to share today’s news from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) that my 2012 article in Scientific American MIND, “A Mind in Danger,“ is the 2013 winner of the June Roth...
View ArticlePraising the child’s effort…“you tried hard!”, not the person…”you’re a good...
I just caught this TIME article covering a new Stanford/Univ of Chicago parenting study…it’s something that makes a lot of sense but as parents we need the “proof” to really get us to adhere to the...
View ArticleThe Diagnosis (Unfortunately) Left Out of DSM5: Attenuated Psychosis Disorder
As the much debated DSM5 finally enters the hands of doctors, policymakers, insurers and other interested parties next month (MAY/2013), I am reposting an article I wrote last fall. It concerns what I...
View ArticleA Footnote to the Jenny McCarthy Public Health Threat: MMR Vaccines NEVER...
The following came today from one of our PLOS Bloggers, Seth Mnookin, whose book, The Panic Virus chronicles the rise of the antivaccine movement, including its celebrity spokesperson du jour, Jenny...
View ArticleA new 3 min. online self-test for depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder
I just tried a new online tool from Mental Health America called “How’s Your Mood Today?” that can help you evaluate whether things you’re thinking, doing, or feeling may in fact be symptoms of one of...
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An excellent infographic explaining bipolar disorder: symptoms, prevalence, treatment — Find it here
View ArticleWhy Mental Illness-Focused Gun Control May Be More Harmful Than Helpful
I’ve republished a Speaking of Medicine (PLOS Medicine) blog post I think you’ll find of great interest. In it, Sara Gorman explains the risks of increasing stigma and discouraging treatment, compared...
View Article“3 Lessons from the Gus Deeds’ Story”– A Psychiatrist Takes on America’s...
By Shaili Jain, MD Posted: February 6, 2014 on PLOS BLOGS, Mind the Brain From “60 Minutes,” CBS Television, January 26th, 2014 Creigh Deeds: There’s just a lack of equity in the way we as a society,...
View ArticleBook Review: By All Means…Where Mindfulness Meets Mental Health
By Edward Brown Illustrations: Margot Koch Missing Links Press Reviewed Jan/2014 (Releasing April 2014) To Buy on Amazon A few pages into this “Zen cautionary tale,”, the dramatic stakes are set...
View ArticleLet Us Not Forget…Suicide, Even By Celebrities, is Most Often Preceded by...
With a spate of celebrity suicides and overdoses in the news, most recently those of L’Wren Scott and Philip Seymour Hoffman, we can find ourselves sidetracked with sordid details of their deaths, and...
View ArticleADHD: a real disorder, denying it hurts children
This is a great article on the website “Real Clear Science” compiling the evidence to respond to those who fall on the overmedication of kids argument to deny the existence of this disorder:...
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