Cooper Davis
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ExecDirector @_innercompass | married x @lauradelano | unrepentant nuancebro | “the face of mental illness in a $250 sweater”- Freddie DeBoer
New England
Joined August 2009
What if our current “mental health crisis” is actually a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvent our cultural conception of “mental health” entirely?. Deep gratitude to @JanJekielek and @AmThoughtLeader .
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This is true but it’s also an idea that gets used to diminish universal value of healthy practices by associating them with elitism/snobbery/“supremacy” etc.
Tech free private schools and abstaining from tech will be a new class signifier like eating healthy and being in shape.
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While what Mark says here may be true (I suspect it is), I don’t think its fair to say our current problems emerge from any particular error in formulating diagnostic category;. Even if a particular mistake was avoidable, the overall inevitability of such errors over time are one.
Had DSM retained the diagnosis of neurotic depression, we would have been able to avoid many of the problems now facing the field, including the current antidepressant controversy. Not all depressions represent the same illness.
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this is hard to look at. we know SSRIs alter fetal brain development. the question is whether we’re willing to endure the discomfort of actually talking about it. or just translate it into some feel-good, pseudoscientific euphemism like “promotes fetal neuroplasticity” instead.
If serotonin plays a crucial role in fetal brain development (which it does) & if antidepressants disrupt the serotonin system (which many do) then they must alter fetal brain development. This new study shows this. The exposed rats were affected🧵
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From The Canary. “Dr Horowitz [@markhoro] pointed out the similarities to the fossil fuel industry’s denial of the climate crisis and cigarettes. Naomi Oreskes highlighted these in her book, Merchants of Doubt. Oreskes pointed out that when people are defending a commercial.
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RT @walterkirn: Someone has made an official decision that Jimmy B's "Come Monday" should move to top-tier nationwide retail outlet and hot….
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RT @2bfree02: I'm certain what happened to our Bryan has happened a thousand times over. Not aware of the emotional hijacking, misrepresent….
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RT @cwestonclark: Wanted to cheer when I saw this from @HengartnerMP! Dr Jauhar finds small effect sizes meaningful when they support the u….
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RT @AmazzoneFuriosa: This passage from @sameerjauhar's paper is Orwellian: "Undue emphasis on discontinuation effects may increase the like….
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RT @Rick_Pescatore: If you listen to #medtwitter closely, it appears that the generation of physicians that has their Epic passwords on lit….
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RT @danascullyshair: The way you know psychiatry is only interested in neurotransmitters for self-serving reasons (so psychiatrists can say….
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RT @markhoro: I think this is a good point. There is a stunning lack of interest in finding out what the effect of perturbing neurochemical….
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“A social compact between the People and the Experts has broken. We live in a world where a thousand theories about health and wellness bloom in different echo chambers every day, a development that cannot be reversed. Now that we’ve lost the ability to unite people around one.
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From NY Mag.“Overwhelmed, outraged, and deposed from their former seats of institutional authority, academic physicians and public-health experts have fought back for cultural dominance with their favorite weapons: the fact check, the New York Timeseditorial, the alarmed open.
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RT @markhoro: I think this extrapolation well beyond the evidence based is reckless and if implemented in guidelines will lead to many pati….
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RT @coopercdavis: @markhoro The only explanation that makes any sense to me is that this whole boondoggle was first conceived as a reaction….
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