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Initiatives In The Field Of Positive Health: Optimism And Stroke Risk
Way back in 1946, the chartering documents for a new agency of the UN—the World Health Organization—defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the...
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Americans Taking More Antidepressants Than Ever
Remember when the best-selling book Listening to Prozac came out almost 20 years ago? Now Americans aren’t just reading about Prozac. They are taking it and other antidepressants (Celexa, Effexor,...
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Mental Health Support For Pregnant Women May Save Two Lives
In a recent medical study, violent deaths of pregnant women outnumber traditional causes of maternal deaths such as post partum hemorrhage or pre-eclampsia . I am not surprised. In September 2010, I...
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Pay Tribute To The Veterans In Your Life By Learning More About PTSD
My ability to sit peacefully day after day and write about health or enjoy my family owes more than I’ll ever know to the hard work and sacrifice of generations of American men and women who served in...
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Do Childless Couples Have An Increased Risk Of Death And Mental Illness?
I hate scientific studies that don’t investigate the assumptions on which they’re based. They do harm. The findings slither around and get into the heads of people who treat people for the issues the...
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Why Patient Autonomy Is Critical To Good Health Care
Many of the patients that I treat have brain injuries. Whether caused by a stroke, car accident, fall, or drug overdose, their rehab course has taught me one thing: nobody likes to be forced to do...
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Psychiatrist Suggests More Active Treatment For Major Depression
Most patients with major depression require a second medication. A psychiatrist suggests that exercise could fulfill that need, too. Because most patients with major depression don’t fully respond to...
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Why Don’t Psychiatrists Like To Show Patients Their Notes?
Please see my post on Clinical Psychiatry News and yesterday’s post What’s in a Note? along with the reader comments. One reader asked why it’s weird to want to see your shrink’s notes and why shrinks...
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Patients Need Encouragement To Talk About Depression
More than two in five patients hesitate to discuss depression in the primary care setting, leading researchers to offer practical tips on how to encourage people to broach the subject. The big reasons...
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Research Suggests Certain Professions Are More Associated With Schizophrenia
People with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and their first-degree relatives more frequently work in creative professions, suggesting some truth to the long-mythologized link between artists and...
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