Podcast: Policing and Mental Illness: A Better Approach
Police officers are often the first responders when someone is having a mental illness crisis. But are members of law enforcement properly equipped for this job? There are plenty of horrifying stories that would indicate that the answer is “no.” How do we change this? Join us as Gabe speaks with Officer Rebecca Skillern from the Huston, Texas, Police Department about how Houston is training its officers to respond to these difficult calls.
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Officer Rebecca Skillern, senior trainer within the...
Source: World of Psychology - August 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: Policy and Advocacy Relationships The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Sexual Side Effects Caused by Psychiatric Medications
It’s common knowledge that psychiatric medications are prone to sexual side effects. It’s often referenced in the advertising. Since most people living with mental illness want to be both happy and have a satisfying sex life, this creates a bit of a quandary
Are the two things mutually exclusive? What does a person on psychiatric medications do when the cure seems worse than the illness? Listen in to find out now!
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“The sexual side effects of [psychiatric] medications are the number one reason people stop taking them.”
– Gabe
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Source: World of Psychology - July 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Antidepressant Antipsychotic Medications Schizophrenia Women's Issues Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Sandy Hook: Community Healing After a Large-Scale Trauma
Everyone remembers the disturbing images from the Sandy Hook school shooting in December 2012 after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 first-grade children. It was traumatic for all of us, but what was it like to actually be a member of that community?
Today’s guest, Melissa Glaser, worked for 20 months as a coordinator for the Newtown Recovery and Resiliency Team, a group of mental health professionals, funded by a Department of Justice grant, who worked in partnership with local recovery providers, community organizations, and town employees to provide services to over 900 people immediately affecte...
Source: World of Psychology - July 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: PTSD The Psych Central Show Trauma Violence and Aggression Source Type: blogs
Generating Hallucinations Using Optogenetics
About a decade ago, Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University developed a technology called optogenetics. It allows scientists to stimulate individual nerve cells using light beams within the brains of live and moving animals. Now, this technology has been used to generate visual hallucinations within lab mice, causing them to act as though the things they’re seeing are actually there.
As the name implies, optogenetics relies on introducing genes for light sensitive proteins into neurons. When light at a specific frequency illuminates such neurons, they become active as though they were naturally triggered to do so. ...
Source: Medgadget - July 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Genetics Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Procrastination or Mental Health Issues?
Since time was invented, people have fallen into three main categories: Chronically early, on-time, or late. You don’t need mental illness to put things off until the last minute and it doesn’t take anxiety to get things done well ahead of schedule.
But, there’s also no denying that living with mental illness can – and does – impact our ability to be punctual and to accomplish goals. In this episode, Gabe and Michelle discuss the difference between putting things off because we are making bad choices and putting things off because of mental health issues. Listen now!
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“The world...
Source: World of Psychology - July 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Personal Schizophrenia Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: July 20, 2019
This week’s Psychology Around the Net has the latest on a new virtual reality therapy trial for people diagnosed with serious mental illnesses, how people with mental health disorders are helping amend their descriptions in diagnostic guidelines, the issues that stop you from setting boundaries and how you can overcome those issues, and more.
People With Mental Health Disorders Amend the Descriptions: What would happen if input from people who actually deal with mental health disorders on a daily basis was taken into consideration when it comes to the diagnostic guidelines describing said disorders? A new study set ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Addiction Cannabis cannabis dependency cannabis treatment Loneliness Nhs Procrastination Productivity Psychosis Setting Boundaries Shame virtual reality Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Learn to Live with Anxiety, Stress, and Worry
Today we are joined by Dr. Russell Morfitt, co-founder of LearntoLive.com. Dr. Morfitt explains the differences between stress, worry, anxiety, social anxiety, and panic, and tell us how using the techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be life changing. The Learn to Live program is designed to teach CBT skills online to anxiety sufferers, those who suffer from depression, and even insomniacs! Listen in to learn how you can begin to free yourself from the burdens of anxiety.
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Source: World of Psychology - July 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Childhood Schizophrenia
In this episode of Inside Schizophrenia, our hosts tackle the topic of early onset – or childhood – schizophrenia. Host Rachel Star discusses her personal experiences with schizophrenia symptoms as an adolescent and Dr. Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich from Harvard Medical School discusses some of the latest research. Listen in now!
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Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD is Director of the Developmental Neuropsychiatry Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He did his undergraduate and medical school at Johns Hopkins, his residency training at U...
Source: World of Psychology - July 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Disorders Inside Schizophrenia Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
The default for psychiatric patients: “Send them to the ER”
Here is a standard emergency department situation, played out all across America today. Patient X has schizophrenia. He takes medication, but only until he feels better. He is calm when he takes it, but sometimes aggressive and assaultive when out of treatment and off medications. Patient X decides to leave town and drive somewhere else […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/edwin-leap" rel="tag" > Edwin Leap, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Emergency Medicine Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Religion and Mental Illness
From leisure activities to politics to relationships, people tend to be influenced by their religious beliefs. In this episode, Gabe and Michelle discuss the pros and cons of religious influence when it comes to treating mental illness and explore whether it is helpful when trying to reach recovery.
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“They are dead (by suicide) and we are still stigmatizing their behavior.”
– Gabe
Highlights from ‘Religion and Mental Illness’ Episode
[2:00] The intersection of religion and mental illness.
[4:30] How the Jewish faith views mental illness.
[10:00] How Christianity views mental illne...
Source: World of Psychology - July 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Depression Ethics & Morality Schizophrenia Spirituality & Health Source Type: blogs
Treating schizophrenia with long-acting injectables
It happens all too often. You have not been taking good care of yourself. You don ’t eat, you sleep poorly, and you neglect your medical health. Over months or sometimes years, you begin to isolate yourself from your friends and family. You can’t seem to hold a job. You lose interest in once pleasurable activities. […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/greg-smith" rel="tag" > Greg Smith, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Meds Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Openly Discussing Suicide in Our Communities
One of the most dangerous misconceptions about suicide is that asking a loved one if they are suicidal will increase the odds that they will attempt suicide. Today Dr. Nate Ivers of Wake Forest University discusses the importance of making “the covert overt” by asking blunt, straightforward questions of those you suspect may be thinking about suicide. What words should you use, and if the answer is yes, what should you do next? And why are we so uncomfortable about asking these potentially lifesaving questions?
Find out on this episode.
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Source: World of Psychology - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Depression Grief and Loss Suicide The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
The Causes of Schizophrenia: It ’ s Probably Not Genetics
For more than a century, researchers have had a deeply-held belief that schizophrenia is one form of mental illness that has its basis in genetics. In the intervening years, hundreds of millions of person-hours and billions of dollars have been funneled pursuing the genetic theory of schizophrenia.
Despite all of this enormous effort, researchers are starting to understand that perhaps the genetic component of schizophrenia has been overemphasized. And, in fact, the heritability estimates are not the 80-85 percent that some researchers claimed, but instead are far less.
A new review article published in Psychiatry Researc...
Source: World of Psychology - July 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Research Schizophrenia Causes Of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Causes Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Persistent Myths of Mental Illness
Myths spring up about everything that is misunderstood – and mental illness is one of the most misunderstood things out there. People are equal parts fascinated by and terrified of it, seemingly at the same time. In this episode, our hosts take a look at some myths about living with schizophrenia and even tackle the most common one – are schizophrenics violent?
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“People with schizophrenia are more likely to be victims of violence than to cause violence.”
– Michelle
Highlights from ‘Myths of Mental Illness’ Episode
[2:00] What are some myths about schizophrenia?...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Schizophrenia Stigma Violence and Aggression Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Online Teen Therapy: Everything You Need to Know
In today’s episode, we speak with Haesue Jo, Clinical Support Lead for a large online therapy website, about their new offering for teens and adolescents. On-line therapy is a novel idea for many — and prompts a lot of questions. How does on-line counseling work for adolescents? Are there a lot of differences between the experiences of teens and adults? How are parents involved? What are the safeguards in place? How does payment work?
Listen in to see what online therapy for teenagers is all about.
(BetterHelp.com is a long-term sponsor of The Psych Central Podcast.)
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Source: World of Psychology - July 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help The Psych Central Show Treatment Source Type: blogs
