"Major Depressive Disorder" is DSM's biggest mistake: 1)Too broad- lumps severe "endogenous" with mild "reactive" 2)Confuses #grief with clinical depression 3)Turns normal sadness into mental disorder 4)Encourages excess med use 5)Often not "major"/"not depressive"/"not disorder"

We became 'asexual' after taking antidepressants for just a few WEEKS - now our genitals have shrunk and we're worried we'll never have sex again trib.al/RNh2xBe

The reason the “view morning sunlight” thing works to positively impact energy, nighttime sleep, etc. is because your circadian biology is among the more powerful systemic control points for mental and physical states. Its importance cannot be over emphasized.

The recent review of drug-company funded, short-term studies that mostly weren't looking for withdrawal confirms how little attention we have paid to this 'major public health issue'. Our critique in The Conversation Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social theconversation.com/study-claiming…

It’s amazing how much more accessible our motivation to exercise, do focused work, and generally feeling good, is, when we get our sleep-wake rhythms even mostly right. Viewing morning sunlight is a powerful lever to organize all that. It sets the foundation. For specific

Please reTweet to raise awareness about the power of #music on the #brain. #neuroscience #Alzheimers #dementia

This important paper exposes the commonly promoted misunderstanding that makes depression sound like a brain condition (an explanation) when it is, in fact, only a description of the individual's situation karger.com/psp/article/do…

To avoid DSM reification/stigma: No patient "has schizophrenia" or "is schizophrenic"- lazy/misleading/reductionistic terms Proper usage: Patient "meets criteria for schizophrenia" Why? Mental disorders are constructs- not diseases People are so much more than their disorder

Prof @JoannaMoncrieff presentation “Antidepressants are not antidepressants and they don’t work anyway” at #RCPsychIC 2024

An interview with Bessel van der Kolk: ‘When trauma becomes your identity, that’s a dangerous thing.’ ft.com/content/9ab764…

“Mental health cannot be defined in terms of the "adjustment" of the individual to society, but...in terms of society's [adjustment] to the needs of man, of its role in furthering or hindering [human] development...[health] depends on the structure of society.” ― Erich Fromm

14 different literature review types categorized by method used

Another brave testimony about PSSD and 'the brutal effect that antidepressants can have on someone’s mental health when they nullify your emotional and sensual self' madinamerica.com/2024/08/i-am-c…

"Dog ownership is a particularly attractive mate characteristic to women seeking a long- term mate...owning a dog may signal the potential mate has the material resources to take care of the dog and the emotional resources to bond and commit to the animal" global.oup.com/academic/produ…

ox.ac.uk/news/2024-08-0… The study found that “increasing serotonin made individuals better able to control their behaviour, particularly when exposed to negative information. The study also showed that elevated serotonin levels benefited different types of memory.”

“Neoliberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism and the demise of opportunity” - compelling interview with Nobel laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz amp.abc.net.au/article/104210…

What helped you through a period of severe mental/emotional distress, and was not a drug, a therapist, or an act of consumption?

Jonathan Shedler I’d say 50% of the value of a good therapist is the empathy, listening, understanding, validation when appropriate etc and the other 50% is the knowledge and experience of psychotherapy to help a person understand themselves and make changes, irrespective of psychotherapy model

A worrying and entirely predictable consequence of the increasing use of ADHD medications

A new study "identified 74 eligible articles in psychiatry, authored by 27 U.S.-based physician-authors. These authors received a combined total of $4.54 million in payments from industry. Of this, $645,135 (14.2%) were not disclosed to the journals". medicalresearch.com/behind-the-pay…