The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options
September 5th, 2024
In the U.S. in 2022, 49,476 people died by suicide, and there were approximately 1.6 million suicide attempts. Not included in suicide statistics is the even more common U.S. “death of despair” of drug overdose death, numbering 107,941 in 2022. While most of us are not attempting to kill our pain in a manner that […]
Why, With More Treatment, Suicides and Mental Distress Have Increased? Former NIMH Director’s New Book
March 23rd, 2022
Insel begins by comforting his fellow psychiatrists with his claim that current psychiatric treatments “are as effective as some of the most widely used medications in medicine,” but he then asks this unsettling question: “If treatments are so effective, why are outcomes so dire?”