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The key to helping those who express suicidal thoughts is to ask two questions: • How are you going to do it? • When are you going to do it? If distressed people have a method and a time for suicide planned, they are in immediate danger via Psychotherapist explains how bullying leads to suicide [...]
"I think the country is suffering from a glut of overdiagnosis and overmedication," Dr. Allen Frances, a professor emeritus at Duke University and outspoken DSM-5 critic, said in an interview with The Verge. "This has nothing to do with symptoms and everything to do with labeling." The major argument from Frances and others is that [...]
Here's a secret. Much of what you've read about self-help is wrong. Recent scientific research has debunked a majority of the accepted mantras and techniques around self-improvement – leaving the traditional self-help industry reeling. via Debunking Self-Help Myths.
"Childhood trauma, in public health, is probably considered today the single greatest preventable cause of mental illness," Dr. Ken Spiegelman, a Manchester pediatrician, told an audience of school nurses at a recent training session on trauma. The presentation included this quote, from Dr. Steven Sharfstein, former president of the American Psychiatric Association: "Trauma is to [...]
Excellent advice on helping a friend with an eating disorder and dealing with stalking When I speak in schools, I’m often asked for advice on how to help a friend with an eating disorder (and not just girls - a male student ask me in a school in regional NSW recently). So I was really [...]
Drugs derived from magic mushrooms could help treat people with severe depression. Scientists believe the chemical psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, can turn down parts of the brain that are overactive in severely depressive patients. The drug appears to stop patients dwelling on themselves and their own perceived inadequacies. However, a bid by British scientists [...]
"We can figuratively look inside the heads of searchers to understand population mental health patterns" by analyzing Google searches, said lead researcher John Ayers in a statement. via Study: Google Searches Reveal Mental Health Patterns - Lindsay Abrams - The Atlantic.
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The classic economic story about money and well-being goes something like this. Money buys happiness, sure, but only up to a point. Once basic needs are taken care of, extra money has diminishing (or non-existent) returns. Perhaps richer people use their money to move to richer areas, where they no longer feel rich. Perhaps relative [...]
Can money make us happy if we spend it on the right purchases? A new psychology study suggests that buying life experiences rather than material possessions leads to greater happiness for both the consumer and those around them. via Buying experiences, not possessions, leads to greater happiness.
