40‐year study of mortality in patients with anorexia nervosa (N>14k) versus general population (Denmark; N>144k):

Death by suicide:

13.9% Anorexia nervosa patients

3.7% General population
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…

David Brody, MD is facing 20 years in prison for his part in the scheme to prescribe Adderall to anybody on the internet with a credit card.

“…these defendants exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to develop and carry out a $100 million scheme to defraud taxpayers and provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants for no legitimate medical purpose.”

One of the best perks of being a college professor is getting free copies of books. This latest by Kay Jamison looks great.

The hero who led the troops off Omaha Beach had fought in North Africa and Sicily. In Normandy, he “finished off” a wounded comrade who begged for death. On his 440th day in combat, he began shaking and babbling and had to be evacuated. He shot himself in 1958, at the age of 39.

Genetic correlations of psychiatric conditions to “occupational creativity”:

Positive:

Anorexia, Autism, and Bipolar

Negative:

ADHD, PTSD, or Anxiety

No Relationship:

Schizophrenia

Psychiatric conditions ranked from smallest to largest placebo effect in RCTs:

1. Schizophrenia
2. OCD
3. Mania
4. Social phobia
5. PTSD
6. ADHD
7. GAD
8. MDD

1. Intensity of clinician engagement with suicidal patients is associated with reduction of suicide ideation in this great RCT: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Such an imortant study!

'In psychoanalysis, when approaching the unconscious- that is, what we do not know - we, patient and analyst alike, are certain to be disturbed. In every consulting room, there ought to be two rather frightened people: the patient and the psychoanalyst.'

“There is nothing wrong with him that is any worse than what is wrong with me.”

Glenn Sullivan No sense of the Transcendent. No sense of history. No appreciation of the arts or even popular art that originated before their time.

My own list of why adolescent mental health problems are increasing:

1. Faddish self-diagnosis
2. Belief that discomfort = mental illness
3. Lack of time with friends irl; lack of siblings; both parents working
4. Public school = boring & meaningless
5. Cannabis

7/ If MDMA therapy is legalized I imagine we will see:
1) Commercialization of this as a “quick fix”
2) Abuses of power and trust
3) Use of the treatment in patients excluded from the initial studies (BPD??)
4) Depth therapy (longer term, highly efficacious work) being once

Lol 😂

Blessent mon coeur
d'une langueur
monotone

“The findings of this review do not support the hypothesis that introducing [assisted-suicide] reduces rates of non-assisted suicide.”

Rates of suicide for older women in Oregon and Switzerland increased after assisted-suicide was legalized there.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

“[D]ata from the United States demonstrates that assisted suicide is associated with a significant increase in total suicide (inclusive of assisted suicide) and no reduction in non-assisted suicide.”

openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A1…

“I’m pro-death,” she said.

The example she has so publicly set increases the risk of suicide for many more people, either via state-administered death or otherwise.

We cannot dismiss the possibility that this was her true intention. foxnews.com/media/healthy-…