Mental Health Articles
Research is strongly showing us that we need to be seriously paying attention to three things that are often just “annoyances” and not given enough thought. Education probably needs to be targeted into these areas so they are not ignored or explained away. They are:...
Mental Health Articles
I am not a “grumpy old man” on the cannabis front but having seen so many lose their minds through the 1970s and watched the “green-movement” political wave, I am now more concerned that we need all discussion out of the political arena. Please research this yourself...
Mental Health Articles
Early in January Psychiatric Times defined psychiatry generally as “a Medical specialty that wrestles with the included middle, requiring judgement, patience and humility”. They reminded us all that, “what we call disease is solely an abstract concept with the help...
Mental Health Articles
In New Zealand we have the Green Party with a passionate commitment to pushing a, “Cannabis is safe and wonderful” message, and yet the evidence is building in places where cannabis has been fully legalised that things are not that rosy at all. Oklahoma has led the...
Mental Health Articles
A significant challenge to the Dutch liberalism regarding Euthanasia has been made early this year by Jim Van Os, Wilbert Van Rooij, and Mark S Komrad, three psychiatrists in Holland who are persuasively arguing that activists have pushed the boundaries of psychiatry...
Mental Health Articles
A shocking admission from a study by Rutgers and Harvard Health. “Young adults viewing social media posts from influencers involving alcohol were more likely to desire participation in drinking”. My questions immediately is, are these young people more vulnerable to...