Not so long ago, my children’s kindergarten entered a soft block. The menace was an active shooter on the nearby UC Berkeley campus. For several minutes after receiving this news, I sat paralyzed at my desk. I was trying not to imagine exactly what no parent should imagine under these circumstances: the little, beloved face…
An Amish family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania had long known that their son was deeply upset and unhappy. Now in his early twenties, he hadn’t thrived and found his way as a productive member of their farming community of 40,000 Old Order Amish. The family faced many barriers in dealing with their children’s mental health. When…
A recent study found that bisexual women are three times more likely and gay men and women twice as likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual individuals. The research, based on survey data linked to the medical records of 123,000 people, underscored the urgent need for better mental health support within the LGBTQ+ community. A recent…
The term sundowning is sometimes used to describe a tendency for people with dementia to become more confused in the late afternoon and into the night. At the outset, I should point out that the term sundowning is overly simplistic, as it is a shorthand term that can encompass a vast number of behaviors in…
Mental health From Marc Lallanilla July 21, 2023 | 2:51 pm Being chronically late isn’t just rude or inconvenient, it’s now considered a medical condition. A number of medical experts have labeled the condition time blindness and associated it with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or other mental health issues. And while there are strategies and therapies that…
Three years ago, I was given the worst news an expecting mom could hear. “I’m sorry. There’s no heartbeat.” I was almost 20 weeks together with our daughter after having two previous uneventful and uncomplicated pregnancies with our boys. About a year later, we lost our third child at 15 weeks. No response was given…
Could perpetual delay be a sign of a mental health condition? One person recently went viral on TikTok for tearfully claiming in a video that she was reprimanded for applying for housing for “time blindness,” a condition she says makes it harder to show up for work on time. The video garnered over 4.6 million…
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Think of a psychopath and you could think of any number of Hollywood villains, from handsome killers like Hannibal Lecter to Anton Chigurh, played with chilling menace by Javier Bardem in the film It’s no country for old men. But the traits and symptoms of psychopathy run along scales from…
A recently published research study written by a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Melbourne encourages a re-evaluation of the approach to psychiatric comorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more mental disorders. The article Psychiatric Comorbidity: A Concept in Need of a Theory was published in Psychological Medicine. Although…
We asked therapists to share if they have a favorite client, if they’re ever bothered by patients, and more. We asked therapists to share if they have a favorite client, if they’re ever bothered by patients, and more. Someone else wonders Do I like my therapist? after, uh, every therapy session? If so, that’s fine!…
