This is a quick index to my posts that appear as part of a recurring theme or series.
Psychiatric medications:
- Psych meds 101s: Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Mood stabilizers, Anxiety meds, Sleep meds
- Treatment resistant depression: When what’s supposed to work doesn’t
- I dream of ketamine
- Evidence- based treatment of anxiety
- What the STAR*D study means for depression treatment
- Our complicated relationships with medications
- Evidence-based treatment of bipolar disorder: the CANMAT/ISBD guidelines
- Do antidepressants work? What a new meta-analysis says
- Meds that can make you crazy (literally)
- Pill popper RN
- My experiences of going off meds
- Where did our meds go?
- Dead if you do, dead if you don’t? Weighing the risks & benefits of medications
What is… ?
This weekly series takes a look a different terms in the area of psychology.
- Anosognosia
- Assertiveness
- Attachment theory
- Autonomy
- Codependency
- Compassion
- Conversion therapy
- Gaslighting
- Hope/hopelessness
- Invalidation
- Judgementality
- Love
- Melancholia
- Memory
- Motivational interviewing
- Myers-Briggs personality type
- Narcissism
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Neuroticism
- Perfectionism
- Psychomotor retardation
- Psychopathy
- Recovery
- Resilience
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Self-esteem
- Shame and guilt
- Transference vs. countertransference
- Trauma vs PTSD
- Type A personality
- Vulnerability
CBT, DBT, etc.
- Mental health worksheets galore
- CBT Cognitive distortions
- Online mental health workbooks
- Psychotherapy alphabet soup
- CBT for insomnia
- Setting sail with the ACT life compass
Suicide
- TED Talks on depression and suicide
- Crisis resources for suicide prevention
- Suicide and barriers to help-seeking
- The way the media talks about suicide matters
- How do we prevent suicide?
- Some thoughts on suicide
- Privacy and completed suicide
Writing
- How to build a mental health blog
- Choosing the right tone to write about chronic illness
- Ways to share your story
- Spread your writing wings
- How and why I write
- Why I like reviewing books
- The blogger’s guide to the basics of self-publishing
Stigma
- How can we fight stigma most effectively?
- How do you respond to stigmatized language?
- Disclosing mental illness at work: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Should people in mental health crisis be handcuffed?
- TED Talks on mental health stigma
- Why is Netflix jumping aboard the stigma train?
- Legislated stigma
- Stigma and the pathologization of normal
- #BellLetsTalk – what if the elephant in the room could speak?
