how to prevent suicide

The Dark Night of the Soul in the 21st Century

The CDC recently reported that seventeen percent of teenagers today in America are contemplating suicide; 14% have a plan. A high proportion of teens feel hopeless. Health Affairs reported that in 2013 mental disorders cost the
reasons for high suicide rates

Rising Rates of Suicide

Suicide Rates Rising: When Do We Acknowledge That Something Isn’t Working?! Regardless of race, gender, age, or ethnicity, people across the United States are increasingly choosing death as the only way out. More people take
Medical Marijuana

Medical Cannabis Superior to Opioids for Chronic Pain, Study Finds

Medical cannabis–a prescription for the opioid crisis?: “The Opioid Crisis is taking the lives of about 115 Americans each day, and approximately 40,000 each year. Yet, it’s not the abuse of street drugs that’s the primary driver
Inner Fire

Integrative Mental Health: 27 Non-drug Options that Work

By Craig Wagner Four years ago I dove into a deep and murky pond: the bottomless depths of medical databases that hold mental health research extracted from the bowels of journals from around the world.
Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Antidepressants raise the risk of an early death by 33%, controversial study finds The drugs do more harm than good, researchers say, and their use should be cut  Psychiatrists disputed this and argued that they
spiritual healing methods

How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Spiritual Crisis and Spiritual Emergency Since psychic and spiritual experiences have been pooh-poohed in our culture—to the point we have considered talking to God as a sign of psychosis?-most people are scared of them. But
Spiritist Healing

Spiritist Healing: A (r)Evolution in Mental Healthcare

Spiritist Healing: In Context Why should we consider Spiritist Healing  now?  There is currently an epidemic of mental health disorders in the U.S.  At least one in five Americans is  taking one or more prescribed
Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD  There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a