Top 21 Most Discussed Shrink Rap Posts in 2011

Last week, I posted lists of the Top 25 popular posts of 2011 and also of All Time, in addition to a list of the most interesting/funny/bizarre search phrases on Shrink Rap for 2011.

This is my last "Top 10" list from the year of 2011. I sorted the entire list of 257 posts from 2011 by the number of comments received, the highest being 119 comments during the Sherry/Lindeman epoch [winking at Duane and Rob]. Enjoy.

1. Guest Blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman: When Patients Don't Pay (119 comments)
2. Guest Blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman: More Thoughts On Rachel Aviv's Article on Involuntary Treatment (83 comments)
3. Suicide, Free Will, and the Shrink's Magical Ability to Predict Violence (82 comments)
4. Are We Not Thugs (81 comments)
5. The Ten Percent Solution (79 comments)
6. Transference to the Blog, Revisited (71 comments)
7. The Top Ten or More Things That Annoy Me About Psychiatry Haters (63 comments)
8. What's Really Insane (60 comments)
9. Please Complain (58 comments)
10. The Very Badly Behaved Health Care Practitioner (57 comments)
11. Guest Blogger Dr. Jesse Hellman: On The Penn State Matter (53 comments)
12. What is Bipolar Disorder? (53 comments)
13. Doctors Who Write (52 comments)
14. Psych Meds are THE Problem: A Post for Duane Sherry (51 comments)
15. The Secret Lives of Patients (49 comments)
16. Running Out of Psychiatric Beds (48 comments)
17. Guest Blogger SG: On How the Pharmaceutical Companies Have Damaged Psychiatry (46 comments)
18. Is It Ever Okay to Lie (44 comments)
19. Tell Me... An Ethical Dilemma (42 comments)
20. The Patient Who Didn't Like the Doc. On-Line. (40 comments)
21. Shock Value (ECT) (40 comments)

Top 25 Shrink Rap Posts of All Time

On Sunday, I published the Top 25 posts from 2011. Today's TOP list is of the Top 25 posts of all time (well, since we started, in 2006), starting with our all-time fav, the Xanax post. Enjoy.

1. Why Docs Don't Like Xanax (some of us)
2. Street Value of Psychiatric Medications
3. CPT Billing Codes for Psychiatrists and Psychotherapy
4. Who Wants to be a Psychiatrist?
5. What People Talk About In Therapy
6. Sex With Fish
7. Does EMDR Work?
8. How This Shrink Picks A Sleep Medication
9. Questions for Clink
10. Why Psychiatry is a Wonderful Medical Specialty
11. What's A Psychiatric Emergency?
12. Depakote & Ammonia
13. How A Shrink Picks An Anti-Depressant
14. Schizophrenia, Still Figuring it Out
15. Shrink Rap Survey on Attitudes Towards Psychiatry
16. Why Shrinks Don't Take Your Insurance
17. What Makes A Good Therapist?
18. The Duck Was Nixed!
19. Skype Therapy
20. Why I Still Prescribe Seroquel
21. HBO In Treatment: Sophie is Bullied Out of Her Suicidality
22. I Have Bipolar Disorder. Can I be a Doctor?
23. Ritalin or Abilify for I.V. Amphetamine Dependence
24. Topamax Effective in Reducing Heavy Alcohol Drinking
25. Six Future Trends in Psychiatry

Coming up later this week... Most Interesting Search Phrases from 2011. These are often very funny, interesting, or just plain bizarre. Here's the list from 2008 to whet your appetite.

Top 25 Most Popular Shrink Rap Posts from 2011

Time for a round-up of the most popular Shrink Rap posts from 2011.

These are all posts written in 2011; later I will put up a list of top posts of all time (since we started in 2006), in addition to the -- and this is my favorite -- most interesting search phrases used in 2011. These are listed with the most popular (i.e., most pageviews) post at the top. Please feel free to repost this on your blog or your favorite social media dooblie doo.

1. Questions for Clink
2. Shrink Rap Survey on Attitudes Towards Psychiatry
3. What Makes A Good Therapist?
4. The Duck Was Nixed!
5. Doctors Who Write
6. Summer Solstice: "Hot" Grand Rounds on Shrink Rap
7. A Brief Psychological Analysis of the Angry Birds
8. Google+ Button Added
9. Doctors to Go to Jail for Asking Patients About Guns in the Home
10. Kindle versus Nook?
11. The Patient Who Didn't Like the Doc. On-Line.
12. The Top Ten or More Things That Annoy Me About Psychiatry Haters
13. What is Bipolar Disorder?
14. Talk Doesn't Come Cheap
15. Diagnostic Labels That Change Lives
16. The Unwilling Patient: New Yorker Article
17. Howard Dully's Lobotomy
18. Guest Blogger Jesse: When Patients Don't Pay
19. Hate A Shrink: They Ask For It, After All
20. No More Xanax
21. How to be a Successful College Student
22. Please Pass the Fat Cream
23. Are We Not Thugs?
24. Psych Meds are THE Problem: A Post for Duane Sherry
25. Happy Shrinks!

If you are still reading at this point, I figure that you are bored enough to also be interested in reading our "Top Ten Posts" lists from prior years, too. Here you go...
2010 ... 2009 ... 2008 ... 2007 ... 2006

Most Popular Shrink Rap Posts of 2010

This is Roy's job, but he's otherwise occupied. He'd do a better job, I promise. Here's my quick and dirty list of our most popular posts this year:

What's a Psychiatric Emergency? 2/8/10

Prescribing Psychotherapy 12/13/10

ObamaMama it's Health Care Reform 3/27/10

Is it Malpractice to Lie? 3/17/10

Are In-Network Shrinks Better Shrinks? 2/14/10

What's Your Favorite Shrink Book? 5/21/10

What Makes Mental Illness Bad? 10/13/10

Shopping Spree 4/8/10

Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry: Book Review 5/10/10

Saving Normal 3/3/10

Unrelated to the New Year, but the all-time most popular Shrink Rap post:

Why Docs Don't Like Xanax (some of us)

Roy's Top Ten Search Phrases of 2008

Okay, once again, I've reviewed our Analytics file for my list of the Top 10 search phrases that people used to find us here at Shrink Rap. These are based solely on those I found funny, interesting, or just bizarre.

I have left the Top 10 search phrases from 2006 and 2007, since just listing these will bring them to the top in the following year. That means I have retired "how to worry your psychiatrist", "freud the meerkat", and -- everyone's favorite -- "sex with fish". So, here goes, my favorite Top 10 from the 39,000-odd search phrases used in 2008:

10. how to drive your psychiatrist crazy (this theme seems to be escalating)
9. I dress better than my therapist
8. psychiatry iphone (the 3rd link... not bad... I'm looking for an idea for a great psychiatry iPhone app... if iFart can make $27,000 on Christmas Day, I want a piece of that action!)
7. grunting teenager
6. national duckling month (3rd link again... glad to see we are so relevant)
5. buttered cigarettes ambien
4. why are those old farts laughing in flomax commercials
3. "in treatment" clown joke does this taste funny to you
2. patients as facebook friends (a new ethical issue to tackle in the Annotations)
1. mental health parody bill

Top 10 Shrink Rap Posts from 2008

Here are the Top Ten most viewed posts which were written in 2008. (I'll do a Top Ten ever if folks want it, but this gets skewed because being in the top 10 for 2007 results in even more hits, so it becomes circular.)

#10.  HBO's In Treatment: The sub-blog. I Can't Take It Anymore [719 pageviews] [19 comments]

#9.  In Treatment: Episode 13....Sophie [724 pageviews] [11 comments]

#8.  Sex With Fish, Revisited [801 pageviews] [10 comments]

#7.  Why This Shrink Doesn't Prescribe MAOI's [971 pageviews] [33 comments]

#6.  My Three Shrinks Podcast 42: The Benzo Wars (or, Xanax Reloaded) [1040 pageviews] [18 comments]

#5.  My Therapist is a Creep [1085 pageviews] [29 comments]

#4.  CPT Billing Codes for Psychiatrists and Psychotherapy [1151 pageviews] [9 comments]

#3.  What's A Sociopath? [1747 pageviews] [24 comments]

#2.  Street Value of Psychiatric Medications [1886 pageviews] [13 comments]

And the Number One most visited Shrink Rap post for 2008 . . .

#1.  Shrink Rap Grand Rounds: The iPhone 3G Edition [2875 pageviews] [27 comments]

Top Mental Health Blogs?

I have an upcoming talk to give on blogging as a form of advocacy and education in the mental health field. I'd like to know which psychiatry and mental health blogs (aside from ours, which we know you love the best ;-) you all find the most valuable. Please leave us a comment with your choices and what it is, in particular, that makes them valuable to you. I'll make a list later for everyone and find some way to organize the results.

Top 10 Podcasts from My Three Shrinks for 2007

Okay, this is my last Top 10 list. We served up over half a terabyte (!) of podcasts last year, producing just under 40 podcasts on My Three Shrinks. We had over 30,000 unique visitors, nearly 200,000 visits, and served up over 100,000 podcast downloads!

Here are the Top 10 downloaded podcasts in 2007:

RANK	DOWN- LOADS	PODCAST
1	10466	#24: Short version of Dr Phil prank on Dinah [Listen now]
2	7252	#1: Podcasting Makes You Potty [Listen now]
3	3572	#5: Sex, Lies, & Neuroeconomics [Listen now]
4	3534	#6: Advice on Manipulating Your Psychiatrist [Listen now]
5	3368	#13: Lost It In Space [Listen now]
6	3348	#21: Chris Kraft on Gender Issues [Listen now]
7	3343	#8: Positively Lost [Listen now]
8	3304	#10: Be Mine [Listen now]
9	3300	#17: Happy Anniversary! [Listen now]
10	3299	#12: Bilingual [Listen now]

Incidentally, none of the above generated the most comments. The two podcasts that stirred up the most comments (37 each) were #15: POTUS Reading and #18: Grand Rounds.

My Three Shrinks Podcast 40: Happy New Year!

[39] . . . [40] . . . [41] . . . [All]

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Happy New Year to all our readers and listeners. We really have our podcast sequence screwed up still. #39 is stuck on an inaccessible, corrupted, encrypted Filevault folder, thanks to Leopard's poor handling of Filevault on installation. I'm working on it. [Edit: #39 is now our BlogTalkRadio interview with Dr. Anonymous. -Roy]  Until then, here is #40, recorded on Dec 30 for release on New Year's Day. Joining us today is a guest psychologist, Barb.

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January 1, 2008: #40 Happy New Year!

Topics include:

• Roy's Leopard Troubles. All is not easy in Mac-land. WARNING: Do NOT install Leopard if you are using Filevault. Turn off your Filevault first (of course, if you have 60GB of files in your Filevault, you will need 60GB of empty hard drive space to decrypt it, not the 5GB which I have).
  
  
• New Year's Resolutions. We all discuss our resolutions (or lack thereof).
  
  
• Top 25 Posts of 2007. Check out the most viewed Shrink Rap posts of 2007.
  
  
• Roy's Favorite Searches of 2007. Also check out Roy's quirky list of top 10 weird and funny Google searches. (Hint: oompaloompas)
  
  
• Hanns-G 28-inch LCD Monitor. Roy got a new monitor. Clink has screen-envy.
  
  
• Q&A: Drug Interactions. Do multiple psychotropic drugs sometimes counteract each other?
  
  
• Q&A: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Long discussion about SAD, lightboxes, melatonin, depression, and suprachiasmatic nucleus.
  
  
• iTunes Reviews. We read some of the 20 reviews we have on iTunes. We are NOT related to the Shrink Rap Radio podcast (which is also very good and worth listening to, but not nearly as entertaining as we are, IMHO.)
  

The background song is Auld Lang Syne, performed by Knuckle Fingers Joe on the Honky Tonk Piano CD (listen on eMusic).

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Find show notes with links at: http://mythreeshrinks.com/. The address to send us your Q&A's is there, as well (mythreeshrinksATgmailDOTcom). This podcast is available on iTunes (feel free to post a review) or as an RSS feed. You can also listen to or download the .mp3 or the MPEG-4 file from mythreeshrinks.com. Thank you for listening.

Roy's Top 10 Search Phrases of 2007

Like I did last year, I scanned through the search terms that people googled to get to one of our blog pages, and here is the list of my top 10 search phrases for 2007 (based solely on those I found funny, interesting, or just bizarre).

10. is being a psychiatrist fun?
9. feline mental disorder ... I think that was the catatonia pun
8. funny dr phil fake interview ... if you haven't heard our prank on Dinah, listen here
7. freud the meerkat
6. how do I stop my best friend from listening to rap ... hopefully not Shrink Rap
5. worried but well ICD9 code
4. how to tell someone to stop talking
3. nobody ever called pablo picasso an asshole
2. how does a shrink order a salad
1. why oompaloompas are scary

Be sure to also check out the Top 25 Shrink Rap Posts of 2007.

Top 25 Shrink Rap Posts for 2007

Happy New Year!!

Last year at this time, we gave you a Top 25 Posts of 2006 list, so we give you this year's countdown list now. (Yes, I will also do a Roy's Favorite Search Phrases of 2007, like I did last year.)


Last year, our main blog page had 27,809 page views, with 9991 "absolute unique visitors" (we started in April 2006, so last year was not a full year). In 2007, the main page had 70,166 views (173,444 page views for the entire site) and 67,867 absolute unique visitors. Thank you for your interest in Shrink Rap!

Last year our #1 post was Stopping the Scourge of P.E. (my post, as DrivingMissMolly pointed out). This year it is again one of mine, so I am challenging my co-bloggers to out-post me in 2008 (if you can...lol...jk).

Rank	Page- views	Blog Post
25	579	The Well-Worried Well
24	583	Who Wants to be a Psychiatrist?
23	586	Roy's Top 10 Search Phrases of 2006
22	586	Personality Disorder?: Chloe O'Brian from "24"
21	598	The Co$t of Being Depressed
20	619	Transference To The Blog [a 2006 post]
19	673	Depakote & Ammonia
18	689	How This Shrink Picks A Sleep Medication
17	694	My Three Shrinks Podcast 1
16	696	Walk Like A Psychiatrist
15	713	FDA Drugs: February 2007
14	725	Put Down the Duckie: A Psychotherapeutic Study
13	733	What To Get Your Psychiatrist For Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa
12	733	FDA Drugs: November 2006
11	736	True Confessions [a 2006 post]
10	951	What's Your Favorite SSRI?
9	968	Sex With Fish [a 2006 post]
8	1179	How A Shrink Picks An Anti-Depressant
7	1184	SSRI Antidepressants & Violence
6	1377	What People Talk About In Therapy [a 2006 post]
5	1451	Ritalin or Abilify for I.V. Amphetamine Dependence
4	1901	Roy: Psych Notes for Smilies [a 2006 post]
3	2303	Why I Still Prescribe Seroquel
2	2391	Grand Rounds at Shrink Rap!
1	5987	Why Docs Don't Like Xanax (some of us)

The Top 10 Things I Don't Like About Being A Shrink

I'm doing this alone-- my co-bloggers are welcome to post their own-- because finding and then nagging Roy is a full-time job. Still waiting for the carpenter to come put things back after we dragged him out to say why he loves his job.

I love my job, as mentioned below in Who Wants To Be A Psychiatrist. But every thing, every job, every relationship, every new or old endeavor, has it's down side, and so this is to present a more balanced side of what I generally think of as my blessed life.

The Top Ten Things I don't like about being a Shrink:

10. Filling out HCFA forms for Medicare over and over and never knowing why they're rejected.

9. Chronic benzodiazepines. The ones that fell down the sink. Why don't zoloft prescriptions ever run out early?

8. The heating unit in my office is awful. It's loud and the room is always too hot or too cold -- this has persisted after it was replaced with a new and improved unit.

7. Arguing with ClinkShrink about who deserves care and what an illness is.

6. No place to lock my belongings in the clinic where I work so I carry my purse everywhere.

5. Wondering if I'll live through eight psychotherapy sessions in a row when I've forgotten to schedule myself a lunch. Or worse, remembering to schedule a lunch, then only having one patient after that, and the patient right before lunch cancels, leaving me two hours of dead space before the last session.

4. Nonsensical paperwork in the clinic.


3. The work of seeing patients who don't talk spontaneously and look to me to guide the entire session, then answer any questions I can think of in single sentences. These can be long sessions.
2. The chaos of patients who simply don't show up or who repeatedly cancel at the last minute. Especially if the reason is that it's the only time they could get an appointment with their hairdresser.

And the Number One thing I don't like about being a psychiatrist.....

1. Talking about unpaid bills, which I have on ocassion let go much longer than I should.

Roy's Top 10 Search Phrases of 2006

Okay, here's another end-of-year-list.  I scanned through the search terms that people googled to get to one of our blog pages, and here is the list of my 10 favorite phrases (meaning I found them funny, bizarre, or just downright disturbing).

10.  pregnant bucking broncho

9.  how to talk to your shrink so he will listen

8.  too much red pepper

7.  girls having sex with fish  (haha... "Get the new DVD Now!! "Fish Gone Wild")

6.  i wanna work at a salt mine

5.  how to worry your psychiatrist

4.  Explain ad with Abe Lincoln and the Beaver

3.  when guinea pigs squeal what does it mean?

2.  advice on manipulating my psychiatrist

1.  how to get cats from under floorboards  (I just can't stop laughing about this one)

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Top 25 Shrink Rap Posts for 2006

Here are the Top 25 posts for 2006, counting down from #25 to #1 (by page views, per Google Analytics). Of course, the older articles are more likely to make it to this list, as well as those which were well-linked (like #1, which has a link on Wikipedia). For what it's worth, the main blog page had 27,809 page views, with 9991 "absolute unique visitors" (I'm sure we had at least 9 more prior to installing Analytics, so I'm callin' it 10,000).

RANK	VIEWS	TITLE
25	97	Put Down the Duckie: A Psychotherapeutic Study
24	97	What People Talk About In Therapy
23	99	Loose Associations
22	104	Freud set back Psychiatry 100 years
21	106	The Psychiatrist as Therapist
20	109	I'm Still Thinking About Fat Doctor!
19	109	No Show
18	114	Suicidal Students
17	117	SSRI Antidepressants & Violence
16	121	Sex With Fish
15	121	Guinea Pigs Behind Bars
14	130	Sweet Dreams?
13	131	FDA Hearing on Antidepressants, Depression, and Suicide
12	132	On A Short Leash
11	132	Transference To The Blog
10	144	Roy: Reality Therapy Vlog: "PsychoTherapy 2.0"
9	160	Peace and Lithium
8	164	Roy: Psych Notes for Smilies
7	178	"48 Hours" looks at Scientology: Saturday night at 10 EDT
6	297	Gummy Bears and Jail Babies
5	307	Off Label; In Jail
4	426	What To Get Your Psychiatrist For Christmas, Hannukah, or Kwanzaa
3	503	True Confessions
2	596	Out of the Office
1	877	Roy: Stopping the scourge of P.E.

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50 Top-rated 2006 Psychiatric Journal Articles, per MDLinx

I don't know how useful this is, as I never rank the list of emailed articles I get weekly from MDLinx, so I'm not sure how many others do. That being said, here is a list of the 50 top-rated psych articles for 2006.

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