How much should you trust BetterHelp, Talkspace, Cerebral and other mental health start-ups touted by celebrities?
When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feeling anxious and depressed at college, Paulson went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory and started calling mental health therapists. No providers in the Wisconsin city where her son’s university is located had openings. So she bought a monthly subscription to BetterHelp, a Mountain View, California, company that links people to therapists online.
Her son felt uncomfortable with his first BetterHelp therapist. After waiting several weeks, he saw a second therapist, whom he liked. But she wasn’t available the following week.
Despite the switch and the wait, P...
Source: SharpBrains - July 11, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation 8 billion minds American-Psychological-Association BetterHelp cerebral medication mental health start-ups mental healthcare talk-therapy Talkspace teletherapy Source Type: blogs
Moment in the Sun
From economic historian Brad DeLong,a brief summary of the extreme weirdness of our time. He presents the table below without giving any source, and the seemingly precise quantification is certainly questionable, but the basic idea is undoubtedly correct. What ' s important is not the numbers, but the idea. Right now the income per capita of all humanity is almost 13 times what it was in 1500. Another way of looking at this is that it took 20 workers in 1870 to produce what one worker can today. And yet, we still have billions of people living in abject poverty. Even in a wealthy country like th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 30, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Poem
Van GoghAt the Van Gogh exhibit she Turned to me and asked whyAll the great artists seemed to succumb To madness or suicide.Bruised swaths of despair swirled And looped into skies of trembling flesh.I saw that her forehead had coiled Yellow into a writhing full moon.Everything was vibratingly alive,Walls melting into the floorAnd I was now part of a screenWhere everything played out.Every colorall the formsthat Thom Yorke songI recalled the dive barPacked with squinty-eyed derelictsIn scuffed boots and flannel shirtsWhere we ’d stopped for a cheap drink.We felt like interlopersTrespassing on bur...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - June 29, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The Hard Problem of Abortion Rights
ConclusionIn sum, reasonable minds —including reasonable libertarian minds—can disagree about the moral nature of abortion itself, the constitutional status of abortion rights, and the proper legal framework with which to evaluate asserted claims of a right to abortion access in particular circumstances. Likewise, critics of the Court’s abortion cases can reasonably disagree on the most principled way to address precedents whose reasoning arguably has not withstood the test of time.In the aftermath ofDobbs, some states may well attempt to regulate abortion in ways thatdo pose grave concerns for libertarians generally...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily, Jay Schweikert Source Type: blogs
Voting Republican is bad for your health
Literally. A study byWarraich HJ, Kumar P, Nasir K, Joynt Maddox KE, and Wadhera RK in BMJfinds this: There has actually been lots of previous research on this general question. As the authors note, " Previous studies have shown that counties that elect Republican candidates tend to experience worse health outcomes, such as fewer gains in life expectancy and increased rates of opioid prescription.56789, " so this is just further confirmation. As they summarize their fndings, " the mortality gap between white residents in Democratic versus Republican counties increased fourfold. Rural Republican count...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
This Is Very Good News Given The Way Global Mental Health Is Falling Off a Cliff!
This report appeared last week: Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety? Quite possibly. A new WHO report sets out the scale of the need Jun 17th 2022
DURING the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, as China imposed strict controls on the movement of its citizens, technology became the main means of tackling anxiety and depression. Smartphones provided crucial support to locked-down Chinese citizens, from counselling through chat services to online self-help. WeChat, Weibo and TikTok, the country ’s giant social networks, swung into action, offering mental-health education and services. More intrigu...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Will the New 988 Hotline Be a Game Changer for Mental Health or a Missed Opportunity?
Someone dies from suicide in the United States every 11 minutes, a rate that has increased almost 30% since 2000. The 988 mental health hotline will launch on July 16 but states need to clear significant hurdles: funding the expanded crisis response system and making sure people know it ' s available. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 20, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Ryan K. McBain; Stephanie Brooks Holliday Source Type: blogs
Dos and Don ’ts of Therapy on the Go: Navigating the use of apps for mental health care
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
To Learn More:
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
“Digital therapeutics” vs. “Mental health apps”: A growing debate on standards, regulation and efficacy
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Source: SharpBrains - June 13, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation agoraphobia Alma anonymity app-based psychotherapy apps for mental health Better Help depression insurance meditation mental-health-treatment mood trackers privacy social anxiety T Source Type: blogs
A Childhood Cause Of Adult Suicide Risk (M)
The more of these experiences students had suffered, the higher their levels of suicidal ideation, meaning they were thinking about ending their lives. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
How the Judd family has honored their mother
In a world where we are constantly bombarded with bad news, it is easy to forget the manner in which news is reported can impact and cause harm to vulnerable individuals. The topic of suicide is one such sensitive subject, and there are guidelines for the appropriate reporting of deaths by suicide to help mitigateRead more …How the Judd family has honored their mother originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/courtney-markham-abedi" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Courtney Markham-Abedi, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 23rd 2022
In conclusion, remofuscin activates the lysosome-to-nucleus pathway in C. elegans, thereby increasing the expression levels of xenobiotic detoxification genes resulted in extending their lifespan.
Naked Mole-Rat Skin Shows Fewer Signs of Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/05/naked-mole-rat-skin-shows-fewer-signs-of-aging/
Naked mole-rats exhibit a maximum life span that is many times longer than is the case for similarly sized mammals. Further, they are negligibly senescent, showing few age-related declines in function across much of that lengthy life span. That includes maintenance of stem ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Wanting a Longer Life Correlates with Achieving a Modestly Longer Life
In conclusion, shorter desired longevity was significantly associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality, and mortality from cancer and suicide. Lifestyle behaviors particularly mediated this association.
Link: https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20210493 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
It Is Time That Meta / Facebook Was Banned In Australia As A Result Of This Behaviour!
This appeared last week: Facebook caught ‘extorting’ Aussie government to soften laws Paul Smith and John Davidson May 6, 2022 – 11.21am Facebook deliberately caused chaos for essential services in Australia - including fire services during bushfire season and suicide hotlines during the pandemic - to strong-arm the Morrison governme nt into coming to a favourable deal over the media bargaining code, a US whistleblower has revealed. A report in the Wall Street Journal overnight features internal Facebook documents showing how a ban of thousands of non-news Australian Facebook pages in February 2021 was deliberate eve...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Mental illness and suicide: a physician ’s story [PODCAST]
“Sufferers of mental illness often believe that others feel they have control of their symptoms, only having to decide to not be, for example, depressed. While they themselves suffer the symptoms of mental illness, they often have the feeling that they should be able to control them. Depending upon their experience, the observer of theRead more …Mental illness and suicide: a physician’s story [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Why can ’t we say the word, “suicide?”
Iconic singer Naomi Judd died at age 76, one day before she was to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her daughters, Wynonna and Ashley Judd, shared a statement confirming her death: “Today [April 30, 2022] we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness.” An exact causeRead more …Why can’t we say the word,“suicide?” originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/arthur-lazarus" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
