Doubts about Diagnosis
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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THC, Mental Illness, & Addiction
Use of higher potency cannabis products does appear to raise the user’s risk of both Cannabis Use Disorders (CUD) and psychosis. The association was less clear for depression and anxiety.
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The BPD Question
I remember when this was a debate within psychiatric circles around alcoholism, back when that disease was seen as a symptom of emotional problems.
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Those Sneaky Conspiracy Theories
It’s not one or the other, it’s about the synergy between them– toxic ideas, with a platform that allows them to spread.
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How Conspiracy Theories Work
Arguing with believers about the merits of a pet conspiracy theory is ordinarily a waste of time. It’s too easy to ignore or discount any evidence that contradicts their beliefs.
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The Sociopath and Self-Disclosure
Sociopathic people can be quite perceptive about others’ desires and motivations– it’s a key to manipulating them
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Psychedelics in Psychotherapy
If you’d paid thousands of dollars in order to travel to a foreign country for a last-ditch, Hail Mary-type grab at lasting relief, wouldn’t you really want it to work?
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Excited Delirium? Ketamine on the Street
Excited delirium is a term widely recognized in emergency medicine yet somehow lacks a single accepted definition.
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Mental Health and Gun Violence
I’m all in favor of wider access to good mental health care, and since drug and alcohol problems are included, I thought this might be an opportunity to point out some serious flaws in this approach.
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Opioids and Mental Health Diagnoses
This goes back to a problem in assessing pain. There’s no physical test for what is essentially a subjective experience.
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Are Video Games Addictive?
Isn’t that a bit like the drinker who insists he’s fine except that he just drinks a whole lot more than other people?
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A System That Isn’t One
It makes little sense to criticize our “system” of mental health care, when it’s only a system in some places. In the national sense, it isn’t a system at all, and never has been.
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Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.
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