Author Archives: Jennifer

Getting Enough Sleep is Good for Mental Health

Getting enough sleep is good for psychiatric health. Scientific American reports on some of the research: People with depression or other mental illnesses often report trouble sleeping, daytime drowsiness and other sleep-related issues. Now a growing body of research is showing that treating sleep problems can dramatically improve psychiatric symptoms in many patients.

Research Suggests People With OCD Are More Morally Sensitive

Part of my symptoms of OCD are moral (not religious) scrupulosity. So, moral issues, thoughts and compulsions have been quite common for me. However, research suggests that people with OCD and not necessarily scrupulosity are more morally sensitive than the general population. As Medical News Today reports: Morality problems cause much more worry for people with OCD (obsessive-compulsive […]

Damning Report on UK’s Treatment of People with Schizophrenia

I just read this damning report on the treatment of patients with schizophrenia in the UK. I’ve read that UK treatment of patients with severe mental illness was more progressive than in the US. I don’t know if that is true, but, if so, imagine the report the US would get. This article states that the “treatment” […]

Dissociative Disorder Fact Sheet

Today, NAMI put out a helpful fact sheet on Dissociative Disorders:  What is dissociation? A number of people with mental illnesses experience dissociation: a disturbance of thinking, awareness, identity, consciousness or memory. Dissociation is more severe than just ordinary forgetfulness and is also not associated with any underlying cause of memory deficits or altered consciousness (e.g., […]

Can Youth Cannabis Use Lead to Adult Psychosis?

There’s been a long debate about whether adolescent cannabis use can lead to adult psychosis. Since a couple of states moved to decriminalize cannabis use, there’s a new article at Machines Like Us about the research on this topic. The ability of cannabis to produce psychosis has long been an important public health concern. This concern is […]