Psychiatry and Psychiatrists – Page 9

Mental Health in America: The Politics of ‘Insight’

Psychiatry still wants patients to have the “correct attitude,” but too often ignores how that can depend on culture, race, ethnicity and faith.

Many in power would prefer to kick questions like “What caused the mental health crisis?” and “Who benefits?” out of sight. Don’t let them.

Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.

As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.

While some mass shootings are committed by people with diagnosed mental illnesses, a life crisis is a better predictor of violence, researchers say.