Rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is the name given to a hypothesized new clinical subgroup of transgender youth, which would be characterized by coming out as transgender out of the blue…
After sharing my eccentric journey to recovery in a new book, I’ve been accused of being anti-psychiatry. I’m not anti-psychiatry. I’m only anti-psychiatry if it means questioning the long-term efficacy…
There has been considerable and well-deserved publicity regarding cases where implicit or explicit police bias has led to unwarranted arrests and shooting of unarmed black individuals. The Starbucks case illustrates…
When characters with mental illness appear in popular fiction, it is typically because the work itself focuses on the mental illness. However, there is a small contingent of fictional projects…
The answer: We need to address what’s happening inside the office as well as stigma. During the creation of the documentary Going Sane I interviewed Cindy Bulik. She is perhaps…
World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day is June 1, and everyone, unless you’re living under a rock, has heard the word narcissist. In fact, the word is tossed around so liberally…
According to the United States Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 552,000 mental health professionals practicing in the U.S. today whose main focus is the treatment…
Happiness might be determined by geography. Adrian White and colleagues at Leicester University’s School of Psychology analyzed data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other databases to create a…
To truly experience wellness and recovery I have learned that I want to be, and have to be an advocate for issues that I feel passionately about. A big part…
It will probably come as no surprise that many Americans prefer “natural” to “artificial” when it comes to food and medicine. Even when the two are chemically identical and show…
Unlike his colleague Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler — another early 20th century psychologist — wasn’t interested in analyzing the psyche of individuals. Instead, he focused on the degree to which…
Was this really necessary? I don’t know of anybody who is less technology-aware than a government. With one hand, they say to television manufacturers and television producers and stations, “Hey,…
No matter where you live, there are alternatives to expensive medical care. Those who don’t have insurance, or whose insurance is inadequate, will want to investigate these resources. In some…
Recovery has only recently become a word used in relation to the experience of psychiatric symptoms. Those of us who experience psychiatric symptoms are commonly told that these symptoms are…
The “straight safety net” involves both hetero-normative assumptions and heterosexual privilege (defined below). These create often-unacknowledged stress for queer couples. Following are three different scenarios from my sessions with queer…
