The Real Cause of the Depression Epidemic
The Root Cause of Depression When I [Johann Hari] interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture
Psychiatry and Spirituality
Contentment with Your Religious Belief Impacts Mental Health Psychiatric disorders involve pathological changes in consciousness, thinking, emotions and behavior, which compromise social performance, with impairments in quality of life. Understanding the phenomenology of mental disorders
Understanding Psychosis: Sign of Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergency?
There is a heated argument around understanding psychosis and psychotic episodes. The dictionary of psychiatry considers it an illness, like a symptom of a broken brain. Increasing numbers believe it does not exist as a
Resources for Tapering and Withdrawal
Withdrawal from Psychiatric Medication … New resources for those looking for information about tapering and how to deal with withdrawal from psychiatric medications. Laura Delano (in photo above) has created a wonderful resource in the
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
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
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
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
Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society
‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric
What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?
By Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM Side Effects are explained clearly in this article. We know that all drugs have side effects. That’s just part of the deal right? But is it really possible that an antidepressant