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Sunday, September 21, 2014

You are at RISK!

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Open a newspaper or read a medical journal or look at your Twitter feed and you'll learn a sad fact: something you're doing -- ...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Sunshine, Lithium, and Xanax --Which ones are good for your mental health?

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Oh, so much to talk about, but let me begin by sending you over to Clinical Psychiatry News to read ClinkShrink's latest article on Sui...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Psychiatry and First Amendment Rights as they Pertain to School Violence and Cannibalism

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Please surf over to the Clinical Psychiatry News website to see my post on Psychiatry and First Amendment Rights as they Pertain to School...
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Sunday, September 07, 2014

Eliminating Stigma with Psychiatric Disorders: Is it Even Possible?

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It's almost a mantra in advocacy circles: we need to get rid of the stigma associated with mental illness.  Fear of being stigmatized...
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Saturday, September 06, 2014

The Importance of Routine (and Clean Living)....

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There's a great essay in The New York Times that I'm sure you'll like -- it's written by Michael Hedrick , a journalist/...
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Monday, September 01, 2014

Boarding Psych Patients in the ER

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It's no secret that over time, the number of available beds in psychiatric hospitals and on psych units of general hospitals have dec...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Have You Ever Called The National Suicide Prevention Hotline?

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After Robin Williams died, my Facebook feed was full of ads for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.  There's a reason for this: ...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Shrink in the Shrink Rap Tie and Links to Interesting Articles.

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So I'm at work today, seeing patients, and I get a text.  Between patients, I check the phone and there in the body of the text messa...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

How Hard Is It To Find a Psychiatrist? Tell me your stories!

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One of the concerns I have about funneling our resources into programs for involuntary treatment is that I believe it's difficult fo...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Looking for People to Talk to Me about Involuntary Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT or "shock" treatments)

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A s our regular readers may know, we are working on a book called Committed: The Battle Over Forced Psychiatric Care.  In Maryland, ther...
Monday, August 18, 2014

What Happens When Patients Won't Take Meds?

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You're here reading Shrink Rap, so you may think this is a post about patients who refuse to take psychiatric medications, and non-c...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Suicide: A permanent answer to a temporary problem. Rest in peace, Robin Williams.

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The news last night was tragic, Robin Williams has died of an apparent suicide of the early age of 63.  I saw the news and felt overwhelmi...
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Saturday, August 09, 2014

Is "Shrink" offensive? Take a one-question poll!

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Over on Clinical Psychiatry News, we had a reader complain about our column title --Shrink Rap News.  He felt it was odd and offensive to...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Sectioned -- on involuntary treatment in the U.K.

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In America, people enter the hospital involuntarily in a process known as civil commitment.  On the other side of the pond, in Great Brit...
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Saturday, August 02, 2014

The Creative Brain : Links to Mental Illness?

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If you're a psychiatrist, you likely know who Nancy Andreasen is.  For as long as I've been around, she's been one of those b...
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