Yesterday Andy pointed out that a list of non-going-to-therapy resources would be useful. Insurance, time, frustration with therapeutic experiences, inability to tell parents, etc, can make seeing a therapist either impossible or unappealing. Here’s a (totally incomplete) list. Please please please add other suggestions in the comments! I’ll keep updating. Relevant disclaimer: I’m not a …
Category Archive: Mental Health
Mar 07 2013
A 2.7 Minute Post About Personality Disorders
[I am being excessively pedantic. The average adult reads at 250 words per minute. This post is 670 words long.] I talked a little about my feelings on personality disorders and PDs as a whole at Chicago Skepticamp (So. FUN.) and in the last post. Then I realized that few people get as into psych …
Mar 06 2013
Psych Nerdery: Cool Facts Edition
Random stuff about mental health I’m hoping you haven’t heard before! Relevant citations and further reading are located in the links on each number. 1. You can’t be diagnosed with a personality disorder until you are 18 years of age. [use drop-down menu at link] 2. Capgras delusion: believing that a family member or …
Feb 27 2013
Training Therapists: We’re Doing It Wrong.
Becoming a therapist should not take two degrees. If we want to create a program to train therapists, it needs to be one degree that actually intends to make good counselors. We need a vocational school styled approach, explicitly focused on licensing in four years or less. Getting a grab bag of undergraduate psych experience–which …
Feb 25 2013
The Myth of ‘Fight Back’
There’s an unfortunate habit of journalists to treat stories of mental illness as triumphs of will. She fought an eating disorder and won! Now she’s happy with her body and wears whatever she wants! He battled depression, and now he is this Super Famous Person I Don’t Recognize! I don’t want to knock this idea on …
Feb 19 2013
The Weight Requirement, and Other Ways We Diagnose Anorexia
This is a post that’s been a long time in coming. Unfortunately, every time I start it, I get upset and then have to leave it alone. So here we have it: what’s wrong with how we diagnose anorexia. Now with less ragequitting! Anorexia has a weight requirement. Refusal to maintain body weight at or …
Feb 15 2013
Psychopathology Sum-Up: Bulimia Nervosa
[This is a guest post by Tetyana Pekar] Tetyana is about to defend her MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. She is passionate about making eating disorder research more accessible to the public. She writes the Science of Eating Disorders blog where she aims to make sense of the latest findings in eating …
Feb 02 2013
Abusing ‘Normal’
Alternately titled: Yes, but isn’t EVERYBODY kinda mentally ill? What is mental illness anyways? Aren’t we just pathologizing being weird?! BUT SO MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO BE MENTALLY ILL NOW! If you talk about mental health and mental illness long enough someone is going to pull one of these. You know, aren’t we all just …
Feb 01 2013
Psychopathology Sum-Up: Types of Antidepressants
Weekly series! As per previous discussion, I will be publishing a big information blog on each Friday. Unfortunately, it’s midterms for me, which means a shorter post for you. Blame the paper(s) and exams and readings and stuff. I promise to be back on schedule next week. Also, I’ve commissioned a post on bulimia from Tetyana, …
Jan 18 2013
Psychopathology Sum-Up: Specific Phobias
It’s Friday, which means a mental health summary. This post is about so called ‘specific’ phobias, which excludes social phobia. Another Sum-Up will deal with that. The Overview: Specific phobias are a category of anxiety disorders. (Anxiety disorders also include OCD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, among others.) Specific phobias are can be …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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