Mental Health

Reading 15 Minutes a Day Can Significantly Improve Your Brain

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY – Sept. 13, 2022 - Another bonus: Dr. Willeumier says you don’t have to pick up a specific genre, like classic literature, to see the benefits. If you prefer a whodunit, go rig... Read More...

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How Would Disney Princesses Look with Real Bodies?

SHAME ON YOU WALT! – Sept. 16, 2022 - “I have my own body image issues that I work on, and a major way that I do that is through my art,” Wyethe told Bored Panda. “So as a therapeutic exercise I wanted t... Read More...

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Can Multiple Psychiatric Drugs Improve Minority Communities?

SO MANY MOUTHS TO DRUG – Sept. 14, 2022 - “It has been documented in adults that Black patients with mental illness are more likely to receive substance care and more likely to be diagnosed with psychoti... Read More...

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Nothing seemed to relieve their depression. Then they tried ketamine.

DO TRY THIS AT HOME – Sept. 12, 2022 - While the study has limitations, the findings appear to illuminate how ketamine could offer more than just brief relief to people whose depression is resistant to o... Read More...

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“Junk Science” in Our Courts and Forced Drug Treatment are a Recipe for Disaster

IT’S COMPLICATED – Sept. 12, 2022 - Yet, the insanity defense has been used in numerous trials involving school or community shootings. Found incompetent to stand trial or guilty but “mentally ill,” perp... Read More...

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Addiction Often Goes Hand-In-Hand With Mental Illness BY NORA D. VOLKOW

THE TRUTH HURTS – Sept. 12, 2022 - Substance use disorders often accompany other mental illnesses. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa. For ... Read More...

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Hiding In Plain Sight: Young Adult Addiction Care

YOUTH QUAKE – Sept. 14, 2022 - “If your child is diagnosed with a substance use disorder, there’s hope for recovery. It includes evidence-based counseling, family treatment, recovering peer groups, medic... Read More...

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Cree Nation Chief Calls for Treatment Centres in Wake of Horrible Knife Attacks

METH KILLS...OTHERS – Sept. 11, 2022 - The chief of James Smith Cree Nation and other Indigenous leaders are calling on the provincial and federal governments to fund on-reserve addiction treatment centr... Read More...

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Are You a Love Addict? Or a Romantic?

“WHAT IS LOVE...BABY DON’T HURT ME” – Sept. 16, 2022 - Love addiction is not a formal diagnosis. It is related to other clinical diagnoses under the spectrum of behavioral addictions, impulse control disorders,... Read More...

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Some People Are Happier (And Healthier) Being Single

SOLITUDE MEANS FORTITUDE – Sept. 8, 2022 - “I was trying to find someone for 10 years, and for 10 years I couldn’t,” Silver, 40, said. Then she had an epiphany. “I was completely feeding into what dating cul... Read More...

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LSD Therapy Induces Rapid, Lasting Reductions in Anxiety and Depression

BILL W. WAS A PIONEER – Sept. 8, 2022 - LSD-assisted therapy could provide benefits to patients struggling with anxiety disorders, according to new research published in Biological Psychiatry. The findin... Read More...

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TIAN DAYTON’S NEW BOOK! SOCIOMETRICS

AUDIO – RELATIONAL REPAIR KIT – Sept. 9, 2022 - “I am very happy to let you know about my new book Sociometrics, which clearly outlines my experiential/embodied approach to healing cPTSD, through accessi... Read More...

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Can You Manage Bipolar Disorder Without Medication?

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE – Sept. 9, 2022 - In addition to mental exercises, there are also a number of lifestyle changes that can help to manage bipolar disorder. Some lifestyle changes that may be helpful i... Read More...

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Five Ways to Avoid a News Addiction

PLEASE DO NOT UNSUBSCRIBE – Sept. 9, 2020 - It’s normal to want to know what’s going on in the world around us. That said, there is 24/7 access to news on the TV and our phones. Much of the news that is ... Read More...

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Adriana Marchione on Addiction, Cancer, Dance & Grief

CREATION STORY EVERY DAY – Aug. 27, 2022 - Sometimes I wish the world were a little smaller, so I could meet my guests in person. Adriana is one of those people who I’d love to spend time with. This, f... Read More...

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Jury Awards $77M in Suit Against Treatment Center

WHO’S MINDING THE REHAB? – Sept. 8, 2022 - Lawyers for MARR wrote in a court filing that a doctor discontinued Carusillo’s lithium treatment after he complained of side effects. Carusillo knowingly viola... Read More...

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Facebook Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children’s Data

HOW LOW WILL THEY GO? – Sept. 5, 2022 - Policymakers are attempting to better safeguard children’s data generated on social media, online video games and other internet services. California lawmakers last week ... Read More...

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Did Michael Jackson’s Ex-Wife Debbie Rowe Confess Aiding In His Drug Addiction? Says, “In Some Way I Was Part Of It”

MEA CULPA? – Sept. 7, 2022 - As per the report in The International News, in the documentary, Debbie Rowe admitted that she had worked for the famous dermatologist Dr Arnold Klein, who gave Michael Jacks... Read More...

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What is the Best Diet for Mental Health?

LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE BE THY FOOD – Sept. 9, 2022 - Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry at the King’s College in London in the United Kingdom investigated exactly how nutrition m... Read More...

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Deep Brain Stimulation New Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder

NO MORE EATING YOUR BRAINS OUT – AUG. 31, 2022 - Expanding on work conducted on mice, the team discovered that the cravings just before an episode of binge eating set off a specific low-frequency electrical pat... Read More...

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Film Review of Our American Family

DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR – Aug. 28, 2022 - Their agony is by no means unique: it resonates with countless other “American” families beset with addiction, often multi-generational, in a child, spouse... Read More...

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‘The Best Tool We Have’ for Suicidal Teens

GENERATION MEDICATED – Aug. 27, 2022 - Dialectical behavior therapy is a subset of cognitive behavioral therapy, which aims to reframe a person’s thoughts and behavior. D.B.T. focuses initially on behavior and ... Read More...

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Kanye West: ‘My porn addiction destroyed my family’

HIS WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND – Sept. 1, 2022 - Kanye West admitted to having an addiction to porn, saying it “destroyed” his family. “Don’t let Kris make you do playboy like she made and Kim do,” he began in... Read More...

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Zac Clark Celebrates 11 Years of Sobriety

IT STARTS THE FIRST DAY – Aug. 31, 2022 - “I feel very loved,” he added, “The beautiful notes and messages, thank you so much for all of that.” Clark continued, “As I sit here and I reflect on the past 11 ye... Read More...

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All About Shopping Addiction

AMAZON PRIME MIGHT BE GOD – Aug. 31, 2022 - German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first defined “shopping addiction” in the early 1900s, per a 2012 review (PDF). He dubbed this disorder as “oniomania,” from... Read More...

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George Orwell: Don’t Even Think It

AVAILABLE NOW: 1984 – 1903-1950 - After the war ended, Orwell joined the libertarian Freedom Defence Committee and contributed to the anarchist journal Freedom. But alongside his natural left-wing allegiance... Read More...

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Teen Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone.

GENERATION OF GUINEA PIGS – Aug. 27, 2022 - A study published in 2020 in the journal Pediatrics found that 40.7 percent of people ages 2 to 24 who were prescribed a drug for attention deficit hyperactivity diso... Read More...

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Forgiveness Is the Key to Healing from Body-Image Issues

IT’S THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM – Aug. 25, 2022 - “Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.” —Desmond Tutu Forgiveness can show ... Read More...

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Diet Can Influence Mood, Behavior and More

VIDEO – THINK BRAIN FOOD – Aug 24, 2022 - As with vitamin C, deficits in other vitamins and minerals can also precipitate nutritional diseases that adversely impact the brain in humans. For example, low dietary... Read More...

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Locking up People with Mental Illness Doesn’t Make Anyone Safer

MENTAL HEALTH CARE IS HEALTH CARE – Aug. 25, 2022 - “He had no support system,” Carter’s high school friend Ray Robinson told The City. “He just had to really rely on himself and those close to him.” This ki... Read More...

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