Kentucky’s Challenge Against Involuntary Commitment It’s for your own good. Clink! – July 9, 2020 - While all states have procedures for committing individuals to psychiatric care if they are perceived to be violent or in imminent danger of hurting themselves, until r... Read More...Addiction RecoveryJuly 14 2020Mental Health
Study links addictive smartphone use to altered brain activity Everything but actually talking – JULY 12, 2020 - “We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate cue-related activity in individuals with smartphone addiction, as defined by validated psycho... Read More...Addiction Recoverycell phoneJuly 14 2020Mental HealthSmartphone Addiction
Ukeireru: Japanese Mindset May Be Happiness Key Acceptance is the... – July 12, 2020 - How do you apply the practice of acceptance in a more individualistic Western society? The book does not suggest that you become a group-oriented person. Instead, it makes you a... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJuly 14 2020Mental Health
Trial Confirms Antipsychotics Damage the Brain WATCH – Duh! – July 6, 2020 - “This randomized study in humans controls for confounders present in previous observational studies such as illness severity or other factors associated with illness that influence brain... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Mental Health
Elon Musk’s ‘Terrifying’ MINI Brain Chip Cures Addiction? It’s all in your head – July 11, 2020 - Mental disorders are diseases that are still incurable by medicine intake. There are therapies, but patients have no exact cure to heal from the brain disorder fully. Brain com... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020Mental HealthRecovery
How Does a Community Help Get People Off Drugs During a Pandemic? Compassion and Civic Duty – June 16, 2020 - There was also a weekly support group, for both “social interaction” and “accountability to other group members,” Brown said. A hot lunch was yet another draw, with l... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 30 2020Mental Health
The Year I Lost Everything, Psychiatry Offered Nothing Mad in America – June 23, 2020 – During group therapy, we often filled out questionnaires, but there was rarely any discussion of our responses. Often, the questions focused on how to avoid the pitfalls that co... Read More...Addiction RecoverydepressionJune 30 2020Mental Health
San Diego VA lied about drug treatment for suicidal vets Our foreign warriors defeated at home – June 26, 2020 - The taxpayer-funded government agency is legally required to be transparent and accountable to the public. But during the past two years of inewsource’s coverag... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 30 2020Mental Healthsuicide
Sobriety is Different When You Have a Co-Occuring Mental Illness It’s Complicted – June 25, 2020 - While I was not diagnosed with depression and anxiety until I was 17, I had been struggling with them for much longer. I had already begun to abuse alcohol as a way to cope wit... Read More...Addiction RecoverydepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 30 2020Mental HealthRecovery
6 Ways to Boost Your Creativity According to Science Everyone is a genius ... at times – May 21, 2020 - The year was 1869. Scientist Dmitri Mendeleev was trying to find a meaningful way to organize chemical elements. He toiled for years and still hadn’t found a s... Read More...June 23 2020Mental Health
Air travel is coming back, and it’s even less fun than before Not so crowded, not so friendly – JUNE 13, 2020 - Air travel now is a matter of far fewer people, more masks, more disinfectant, less food and drink; and, unless you’re a nosy reporter, a lot less conversation. I loo... Read More...CoronavirusJune 16 2020Mental Health
Marlon Brando’s Tormented Childhood – Abused by Alcoholic Parents “STELLA, I NEED ALANON” – June 6, 2020 - As Brando revealed in his tapes, his parents’ alcoholism leached every iota of belief in human kindness from his young soul. After all, belief requires trust, and trust ... Read More...Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 9 2020Mental Health
Why SF’s new laws to force more mentally ill, addicted people into treatment haven’t been used yet Attraction Not Coercion – June 5, 2020 - Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who spearheaded the local effort with Mayor London Breed to expand court-ordered mental health treatment — also called conservatorship — sai... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 9 2020Mental Health
Seven mistakes that destroy your child’s mental strength Only Seven? – May 25 2020 - Tracy Hutchinson, PhD, LMHC, is a therapist with over 18 years of clinical experience. She is a regular columnist for Psychology Today, and her research on positive psychology, mental heal... Read More...CompassiondepressionJune 2 2020lonelinessMental Health
Maintaining Emotional Sobriety During Covid-19: Transforming Trauma into Post Traumatic Growth Tian Dayton PhD does it again! – June 2020 - The idea here is to head trouble off at the pass, to give ourselves the space (and frankly relief) to heal as we go. It’s just so much easier than letting it all pile up ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020Mental Health
Ancient credo inspired Nick Saban and helped Ryan Shazier heal The Serenity Prayer in Action – May 21, 2020 - His reading tells him: He has a choice to make. He can be the man he is or, as Aurelius writes, the man he should be. He quits his job. He writes a self-immolating memoi... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaJune 2 2020Mental Health
SOLUTIONS TO EVERYTHING Please, no contempt prior to investigation – March 9, 1990 - 38. Be aware of the Network. We live by a network of connections and links. Your connection to yourself, to your intimates, to your place, to the col... Read More...Compassionlife expectancyMay 26 2020Mental Health
Lockdown causing ‘serious mental illness in first-time patients’ From 0 to 5150 – May 15, 2020 - The chief executive of one mental health trust said: “We are definitely seeing ‘people not known to services’ who are acutely unwell. They are mainly young men aged 18-25 who require ... Read More...CoronavirusdepressionMay 19 2020Mental Health
“I Can’t Turn My Brain Off”: PTSD & Health Care Workers Counselors at Risk – May 16, 2020 - To address the ballooning problem, therapists who specialize in treating trauma are offering free sessions to medical workers and emergency responders nationwide. New York City has... Read More...CompassionCoronavirusMay 19 2020Mental Health
What We Lose: From the Classroom to Zoom Body Language and Focus – May 4, 2020 - These Zoom intimacies are often endearing, and at times I welcome the strange, unexpected ways this period of enforced isolation brings about new kinds of closeness with ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusMay 19 2020Mental Health
The hidden links between mental disorders Seek and ye shall find – May 5, 2020 - He was taken aback by what he found. Every single mental disorder predisposed the patient to every other mental disorder — no matter how distinct the symptoms1. “We knew t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMay 12 2020Mental Health
The Philosophy of Pronoia In The Zone – April 17, 2020 - Both pronoia and paranoia create an exaggerated sense of coherence from the chaos and confusion of the social world.”— Professor Laurence J. Kirmayer. To personalize s... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMay 12 2020Mental Health
Don’t Fight the Boredom What day is it? – May 9, 2020 - People are so motivated to avoid boredom that they’ll often take unfortunate shortcuts to do so. In The Music Man, Harold Hill cons a whole town just by insinuating that boredom will l... Read More...CoronaviruslonelinessMay 12 2020Mental Health
What Psychologists and Psychiatrists Want You to Know About Anxiety Right Now! For your information: – May 8, 2020 - In this hurry-up world, we’re not always 100% in tune with what’s going on inside our heads. “Sometimes we don’t recognize we’re dealing with excessive anxiety until physic... Read More...CoronavirusdepressionMay 12 2020Mental Health
Access to mental healthcare is about to get harder, at a time when even more people need help The World of Tomorrow – May 1, 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic has forced people who need treatment for addictions and mental illnesses to go from in-person therapy sessions and group meetings to phone calls and vid... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMay 5 2020Mental Health
Tennessee QB’s mental health battle – he planned to take his own life in January Two-Minute Warning – May 1, 2020 - “2 minutes later my mom called me with my baby nephew Jeremiah and she said she was just calling to say she loved me , I then knew that by ending my pain I would be causing so... Read More...May 5 2020Mental Healthsuicide
Lizzo Reveals How Quarantine Has Affected Her Mental Health 110% Real – April 22, 2020 - Lizzo has always been a positive light in the music world since her rise to stardom, but her calming voice and encouraging words are more crucial than ever in the wake of the pandem... Read More...April 28 2020CoronavirusMental Health
How To Make Friends With Your Feelings Just Introduce Yourself – April 9, 2020 - As a mindfulness teacher, my students are sharing their concerns about having strong emotions, like fear, as if they shouldn’t. They seem surprised that mindfulness is ... Read More...April 21 2020Mental Health
Seth Rogen on smoking weed during quarantine Rehabs Get Ready for BONGERS – April 17, 2020 - Rogen turned 38 on April 15 and to celebrate the day, his wife Lauren Miller had some of Rogen’s pals drive by and wish happy birthday, which suited the “Superbad... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020CoronavirusmarijuanaMental Health
Stop Trying to Be Productive Let Sleeping Dogs Lie – April 1, 2020 - “It’s tough enough to be productive in the best of times let alone when we’re in a global crisis,” said Chris Bailey, a productivity consultant and the author of “Hyperfo... Read More...April 7 2020Mental Health