healthcare – Bigger Than Depression

Is It Time To Revise The COVID Mental Health Narrative?

healthcare, mental health, recent, research, shared stories / March 28, 2023

There’s no arguing with numbers but that doesn’t mean that the recently released BMJ study suggesting the pandemic’s impact on mental health was negligible isn’t perplexing. The study’s authors, listed here, compared symptoms reported before and during the pandemic, finding “most symptom change estimates for general mental health, anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms were close …

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TikTok Becomes a Mental Health Hub by Elsie Ramsey

community, healthcare, mental health, recent, teletherapy, therapy / August 3, 2021

I was recently made aware that therapists are blowing up on the video sharing platform, TikToky. I easily located a top 10 list of the most influential clinician’s accounts in Cosmopolitan’s July 2020 issue and urge you to take a look for yourself. Sure, the players have likely shifted in the last year but the rankings …

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Top Ten Research Developments in May

healthcare, MDMA, mental health, policy, recent / June 1, 2021

May was full of important breakthroughs, covering a range of mental health areas of research: Yale University released the results of a study that identified the over 100 gene variants connected with major depressive disorder. The University of California San Francisco released the results of the first comprehensive MDMA phase 3 clinical trial. A study …

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You Needed A Raise To Pay For Therapy…Until Now by Elsie Ramsey

healthcare, recent, therapy / March 25, 2021

Twelve years ago, I lived in New York, way out in the bowels of Brooklyn. I was free falling into my first major depressive episode as an adult. An emotional paralysis was drawing near—I was desperate to run into the arms of a reputable psychiatrist. There was no doubt in my mind that I needed …

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All The Doctors by Elsie Ramsey

healthcare, shared stories, therapy / March 20, 2020

I’ve had many therapists over my lifetime. I remember something about them all, though not always a name. Clothes, an insight, a physical gesture repeated over many sessions. I was given gifts by them all; gifts I carry with me when I meet the world every day. I’m fortunate to have this grab bag; each …

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Eric Kussin’s Story

depression, healthcare, hospitalization, medication, shared stories / March 16, 2020

I have some very important personal information and updates to share that should take no more than 15 minutes to read through. For the past two and a half years I have suffered through, and then ultimately started improving from a debilitating health crisis. Unfortunately, because of perceptions in our society, as I go on …

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The Right To Be Psychotic by Elsie Ramsey

healthcare, hospitalization, shared stories / March 26, 2019

In our current system, someone having a psychotic episode has a legal right to be psychotic. In other words, they can have lost touch with reality and yet be treated as if they haven’t. Is this a case of civil rights taken too far? First, lets define psychosis. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) …

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I’d Die For Single Payer Health Care: Here’s Why by Elsie Ramsey

healthcare, medication, shared stories / January 14, 2019

I’m ready to get out on the street and raise Cain. Bring out the tear gas, tasers, dogs–the whole military. Will I be scared? Of course. But not enough to cower. I’m 38 years old, and for the majority of my adult life I’ve been uninsured. But this is so much bigger than me. Last …

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Have Meds Not Moved the Needle Enough?

depression, healthcare, medication, shared stories / January 28, 2018

Researchers believe that prescribed medications play a key role in the treatment of mental illness. They can reduce symptoms and prevent relapses of a psychiatric disorder. I don’t remember when Prozac hit the market because I was a child in 1987. But from what I’ve read, it was a hallelujah moment; a turning point; a …

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