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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

24 days

If you are (a parent or a clinician of) a #highschool student with a #504Plan now transitioning to #college , you may want to learn about the accommodations colleges offer and the application process. Here is my recent post about it. #parenting #school

Accommodations for College Students Who Had 504 Plans in High School

Students with a 504 Plan in high school might not always realize they could be eligible for accommodations in college. Having specialized in child and adolescent psychiatry and college mental health...

www.greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com

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The problem with psychedelic trials...

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3 years

@anneapplebaum As a psychiatrist, I have to say that the problem is not people with mental illness. The problem is that these people are ruthlessly manipulated by cynical politicians who would rather exploit their mental issues than help solve them.

Anne Applebaum

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This profile is sobering reminder that Qanon and Trump cultists are often people with profound personal problems and mental illness

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@PSzubartowicz Symetryzm to jeden z przejawow stanu psychicznego, ktory opisala Hannah Arendt: "Idealnym poddanym totalitarnej wladzy nie jest przekonany nazista lub przekonany komunista, ale ludzie ktorzy utracili zdolnosc rozrozniania faktow of fikcji, prawdy od falszu."

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@Hokibil @mattmfm @BrianSimsPA @ThomasJTobin1 In seminaries a course in Ancient Philosophy is mandatory. Refreshing Socrates' "triple-filter test" would make a lot of sense for the Reverend. According to Socrates, before you say something, ask yourself these 3 simple questions: Is it true? Is it good? Is it necessary?

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It is really hard not to love Dutch people! ❤️🇳🇱 "100% biodegradable masks with flower seeds, ready for planting!"

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For my Polish followers: Profesor Tadeusz Gadacz zrywa współpracę z Instytutem Myśli Józefa Tischnera. Ważne oświadczenie, szczególnie dla byłych uczniów ks. Józefa Tischnera. W pełni solidaryzuję się z jego autorem. #Tischner #Gadacz #Stawrowski

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The former chief prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin. #PutinWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal

Ex-U.N. prosecutor urges global arrest warrant for Putin

“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte said.

www.politico.com

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The worst psychotic disorders in teenage males I have seen in my career as a psychiatrist were in the context of intense cannabis use. Cannabis use and the developing brain do not go well together.

Nicholas Fabiano, MD

@NTFabiano

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Nearly half of adolescent males with cannabis-induced psychosis develop a schizophrenia spectrum disorder within 3 years. 🧵1/9

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A 29-year-old Dutch woman, Zoraya ter Beek, died by euthanasia for depression, anxiety, trauma, and unspecified personality disorder - all treatable conditions. This is the time for psychiatry and society to pause and rethink... everything.

Haar diepste wens is vervuld, Zoraya uit Oldenzaal kreeg kort na haar verjaardag euthanasie

De Oldenzaalse Zoraya ter Beek (29) is overleden. Ze stierf in het bijzijn van haar vriend en partner als gevolg van euthanasie. Een menswaardige dood, waar ze jaren naar verlangde vanwege ondraagl...

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"I witnessed the rise of Nazism firsthand.. Just as America was there for me and people like me, we must now be there for America. Ours is the land of opportunity. We must now rebuild and protect it against the current fascism that threatens it."

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"Americans want... more economic security. The oligarchy wants them to be insecure, which will only stoke more anger... If those reforms are stymied, that anger could threaten everything in coming years: our economy, our democracy, our future." - @RBReich

The Incredible Shrinking Biden Plan

Don't blame Biden. It's not entirely due to Manchin and Sinema, either. Go Deeper.

robertreich.substack.com

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2 years

Jako psychiatra dzieci i mlodziezy, pracujacy w kraju, gdzie rodziny maja wiecej broni palnej niz sluzby mundurowe, chce z cala moca stwierdzic, ze ogolna dostepnosc broni palnej odbiera dzieciom dziecinstwo. Rzecznik powinien bronic praw dzieci do dziecinstwa bez broni palnej.

Telewizja News24

@kanalNews24

2 years

Rzecznik praw dziecka @RPDPawlak : "wiek 15 lat jest optymalny, żeby zaznajomić dziecko z bronią, nie musi to być od razu broń ostra, ale w sytuacji kryzysowej nie możemy być pacyfistami"

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"They’re infected, not by COVID but by narcissism that refuses..to consider..risks & costs they’re imposing on others.. It’s been near the core of the American personality since before the founding of the nation-a stubborn, selfish individualism"- @RBReich

Why America trails every other wealthy nation in vaccinations

In our haste to call anti-vaxxers ignorant, we’re missing a fuller explanation.

robertreich.substack.com

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3 years

@Anna_Mierzynska @Bart_Wielinski Jesli wsrod "ośmiu umundurowanych mężczyzn przy dwóch rozebranych do naga chłopcach" nie znalazl sie zaden funkcjonariusz, ktory by probowal powstrzymac to grupowe znecanie sie, to jest to strukturalny problem. Policja we Wroclawiu zagraza bezpieczenstwu publicznemu.

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“Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison?” - Carl Sagan

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Today.

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@JoyceWhiteVance @mitchellreports Distraction does not require consistency. Actually, a lack of consistency works better.

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Asian-American doctor: "I got messages... telling me to go back to my own country. I have friends & colleagues who are Asian-American doctors & nurses. Patients are spitting on them." Today, President Trump again called #COVID19 a "kung-flu."

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@JuliaDavisNews As an academic psychiatrist who studied the topic, Russia, including Soviet Russia, has a history of using "mental illness" to justify the oppression of other nations and the marginalization of internal dissidents. Recent statements are yet another example

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

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Meanwhile in Russia: genocidal denials of the Ukrainian identity from the host and his guest. They claim that Ukrainians are just mentally ill Russians, whom they will "cure" once Russia wins. They propose destroying all Holodomor memorials. They discuss killing Americans. Watch:

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Linking CEOs' salaries to the price of their company’s shares of stock made the salaries explode. It "encouraged executives to do all sorts of..things to increase their stock prices, such as cutting workers’ pay & benefits & moving jobs overseas"- @RBReich

Why CEO pay exploded

It happened one day in a White House meeting

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Call me #antipsychiatry if you want, but I cannot respect fellow psychiatrist colleagues prescribing 8-10 psychotropic meds (including 2 antipsychotics) to a child with #autism for acting out at school that doesn't follow its own IEP. Treat the #school , not the kids.

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4 years

“This community is going to be traumatized by this long after #COVID19 ”

‘You could smell the death’: Bodies found stored in U-Haul trucks outside Brooklyn funeral home

A Brooklyn funeral home stackeddozens of bodies in U-Haul trucks and other vehicles parked on the street, police sources said Wednesday — a grisly scene that has horrified neighbors. The NYPD…

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Why is Xanax still prescribed? "After 4 weeks, #Xanax was outperforming placebo... At..8 weeks, there was no difference...between Xanax and placebo... after 14 weeks...placebo outperformed Xanax.. Pharma.. company #Upjohn , only published the 4-week data"

Consumer advocacy groups are mostly funded by Big Pharma, according to new research

An article in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry raises questions about the goal of these advocacy groups.

bigthink.com

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5 years

About 1.1 million people perished in the #Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Many of them were not survived by any family members, as whole families lost their lives in Auschwitz. @AuschwitzMuseum preserves the memories of those who perished. Will you follow @AuschwitzMuseum ?

Auschwitz Memorial

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19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl Marta Weisz was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti. On 31 May 1944, she was killed in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was 2,5 years old. (Photo: @yadvashem )

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@sikorskiradek @SlawomirZagors2 Anne zasluzyla na Order Ksieznej Olgii jak malo kto. Po jej wykladzie na temat Wielkiego Glodu na @UMich w 2019, szedlem przez campus z dwiema starszymi panmi z Ukrainy. Z placzem i wdziecznoscia mowily, jak wazna byla dla nich ksiazka @anneapplebaum .

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5 years

Thank you @anneapplebaum for the great talk about the famine in Ukraine orchestrated by Stalin and for sharing your thoughts on this fragile world.

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"People are always asking me where I find hope, and I tell them... — I don't believe in hope, but I don't believe in hopelessness. I believe in the truth and in doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do..."- @sarahkendzior

We were warned

A conversation with Sarah Kendzior about Trump's assault on democracy

the.ink

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3 years

I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day "There may only be five years before the Amazon rainforest and a large Antarctic ice sheet pass irreversible tipping points." 5 years #ClimateActionNow

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6 years

@wsamraz Krytyka @PresidentWalesa za koszulke z #Konstytucja jest nie na miejscu takze z innego powodu. Prezydent George HW Bush uzywal stroju (skarpetek) do wyrazania pogladow! Takie skarpetki mial na pogrzebie swojej zony, by zwrocic uwage na jej wysilki w propagowaniu czytania ksiazek.

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@PSzubartowicz Kazde wzmianka przez media o sedzim Tulei powinna byc przypomnieniem, ze sedzia jest przesladowany za orzeczenie, w którym nakazał ponowne śledztwo w sprawie sfalszowanego głosowania PiS nad budżetem w Sali Kolumnowej. Jednym z tych, ktorzy dopisali sie do listy byl Ziobro.

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4 years

@medit8now @gtconway3d History teaches that when a senate declares a ruler to be above the law, it does not end well for a senate. The Roman senators were the first to learn this lesson.

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@Anna_Mierzynska @oko_press "Mariusz Kamiński usłyszał wyrok 3 lat pozbawienia wolności... Zlecił czynności operacyjno-rozpoznawcze w celu uzyskania i utrwalenia dowodów przestępstwa. Dla wielu z tych czynności brakowało jednak uzasadnienia faktycznego i prawnego."

Wyrok za aferę gruntową. Były szef CBA Mariusz Kamiński skazany na trzy lata więzienia

Sąd ogłosił wyrok za aferę gruntową. Mariusz Kamiński, były szef CBA, został skazany na trzy lata więzienia. Wyrok nie jest prawomocny.

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2 years

American far-right has been funding anti-government protests in Canada. American right-wing media have been igniting these protests. Now, US far-right politicians call for violence in Canada. My solidarity with the democratic government in 🇨🇦, and the people of Canada. ❤️🇨🇦

Mary Fernando MD

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2 years

This must stop. Trump said, “if Democrats want to fight for democracy abroad, “they should start with the democracy that is under threat right next door, a place called Canada.” This is about our natural resources and @JoeBiden must speak up #Canada

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@aliciaandrz Yes. One child psychiatrist once said, "The role of a child throughout development is to learn not to need their parent(s). The role of a parent is to accept it." Children are usually good teachers and guide us through this process.

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Angela Merkel's research experience, her Ph.D. in quantum chemistry, are paying off and saving lives. And many PhDs keep worrying that there is no life outside academia. Outside academia, there is life & also you can save other lives! via @Walrathis

The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist

The chancellor’s rigor in collating information, her honesty in stating what is not yet known, and her composure are paying off.

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@danibostick @kylegriffin1 We are at the point described by Arendt in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism': "In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything & nothing, think that everything was possible & that nothing was true"

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"My first concern is that the hearings are being used for reputational rehab for..members of the criminal elite who enabled Trump. Corrupt Trump administration officials like Bill Barr are being portrayed not as accomplices but as witnesses"- @sarahkendzior

Rattled | Gaslit Nation

Get more from Gaslit Nation on Patreon

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As a psychiatrist & neuroscientist who has studied the 'limbic system' for over 20 years, I have mixed feelings about this 'targetted' ad I have been getting. Invoking anatomical terms (or rather anatomy-based concepts) doesn't mean that we have a better understanding of trauma.

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Dog puppies are 30 times more interested in unknown humans than young wolves, confirming an evolutionary hypothesis.

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As a child & adolescent psychiatrist, I will keep repeating it as many times as necessary: #cannabis and developing #brain do not go well together.

Chris Aiken, MD

@chrisaikenmd

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High potency #cannabis doubled the risk of #psychosis in this large study of UK teens, while low-potency was safer: But most of today's #marijuana is high-potency More updates in Carlat #Psychiatry News

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" #GlobalWarming is driving leafy tropical canopies close to temperatures where they can no longer transform sunlight and CO2 into energy, threatening total #collapse if the thermometer keeps climbing, according to ... the study published in Nature"

Tropical forests nearing critical temperatures thresholds

Global warming is driving leafy tropical canopies close to temperatures where they can no longer transform sunlight and CO2 into energy, threatening total collapse if the thermometer keeps climbing,…

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2 years

Colleagues, don't treat pediatric patients with eight psychotropic medications at the same time. It is malpractice.

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3 years

#WeAreEarth

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These psychiatrists should leave the profession. “I’m seeing euthanasia as..option brought to the table..by psychiatrists..especially in..young people with psychiatric disorders, where the healthcare professional seems to give up on them more easily...”

‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious?

www.thefp.com

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@DebiecJacek

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Because "Here, right matters" Because Black Lives Matter Because families belong together Because women's rights are human rights Because climate change is real Because science matters Because healthcare is a human right Because education matters Because love is never wrong ❤️🇺🇸

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The book arrived today. I've been teaching deprescribing for over a decade. All clinicians who are licensed to prescribe psychotropic medications should know how to safely deprescribe them. @markhoro and @DavidTa23968240 have done very thorough work- congrats!👏👏👏 A must-read!

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@Podolyak_M @Tulilam @Thomas_Geisel "But perhaps the most striking and frightening aspect of the German flight from reality is the habit of treating facts as though they were mere opinions." - Hanna Arendt, The Aftermath of Nazi Rule - Report from Germany.

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Ex-mayor of Düsseldorf @Thomas_Geisel questions 🇷🇺 war crimes and asks if one can trust the news from 🇺🇦. I think Mr. Geisel can come and personally ask questions to a man who lost his family in Odesa (photo), parents of a raped girl from Bucha or refugees from Mariupol 1/2

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For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year

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"It is an ETHICAL IMPERATIVE to consider the circumstances under which traumatic memories are recalled, whether in the course of therapy ..or public testimonies. RECALLING TRAUMA may be a part of the HEALING process or may lead to RE-TRAUMATIZATION.."

Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat

Two neural systems record traumatic memories, meaning they can be remembered in both conscious and unconscious ways.

theconversation.com

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@janevandis Many active politicians perceive their job as cheerleading. "Obama and..Axelrod have been..lamenting climate inaction.. When they were in a position to limit future damage from climate change, they chose not..and..expanded fossil fuel production"

Obama’s Greenwash

If Barack Obama and David Axelrod are really concerned about the climate crisis, they can fess up to their culpability — and demand change from Joe Biden.

www.levernews.com

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A top female tennis player opens up about the premenstrual syndrome #PMS affecting her performance. As a psychiatrist, regularly seeing patients with PMS & premenstrual dysphoric disorder #PMDD , I commend & respect @iga_swiatek . It's time to talk about it

Iga Swiatek opens up about the effects of PMS on her game during Sakkari match, says she won...

2020 French Open champion Iga Swiatek's WTA Finals debut hasn't gone the way she would have liked.

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Fellow child psychiatrist colleagues, when evaluating a patient, please ask, "Does your parent often raise their voice at you?" "Adults shouting at children can be as harmful as sexual or physical abuse, study finds"

Adults shouting can be as harmful to a child’s development as sexual or physical abuse, study finds...

Adults — including parents, teachers and coaches — shouting at, denigrating or verbally threatening children can be as damaging to their development as sexual or physical abuse, a new study finds.

www.cnn.com

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@psychunseen @SallyCaperton @MelissaJPeltier @Heidi_Cuda @DrWinarick @RepTedLieu @gaslitnation My experience of growing up in Communist Poland tells me that fellow-Americans are unable to recognize the warning signs - they lack a frame of reference, don't take things seriously.

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@anita_fogler @donaldtusk Donald Tusk decyzją pójścia do studia TVP pokazał odwagę i dał przykład. Wkrótce każda i każdy z nas może znaleźć się w sytuacji podobnego wyboru: albo skonfrontujemy się twarzą w twarz z aparatem władzy PiS, albo stracimy szansę zmiany. On tę probę wygrał. Odwaga się udziela.

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To be a child and adolescent psychiatrist, understanding psychopathology and psychiatry is not enough. One has to understand development. Nobody who understands development would diagnose BPD in teens.

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My view: Borderline Personality Disorder should never be diagnosed in teenagers. Easily confused with typical teenage rebelling/family issues/substance abuse/identity concerns. BPD requires long track record & carefully ruling out all other conceivable causes. Great article:

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@glennkirschner2 People typically commit crimes in broad daylight when they fear no consequences. The public should be worried about why this politician fears no consequences.

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Lindsey Graham appears to have committed a three-year felony (18 U. S. Code sec. 607) on TV. “Hold the tape.”

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Empathy is a predisposition, compassion - a virtue. You are born with the former and practice the latter.

Four Reasons Why Compassion Is Better For Humanity Than Empathy

In times of crisis and social unrest, compassionate leadership can unify us as human beings, like a glue that binds us together in times of unrest. Without it, we become lonely individuals, facing...

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"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response." - Viktor Frankl #Therapy is about finding this space and growing it.

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It is worth a read what this psychiatrist is sharing. Psychiatry, led by American academic psychiatry, is increasingly becoming a corporate endeavor with a focus on products to market and sell. Never mind the quality of these products. Psychiatry's soul-searching is overdue.

Paul Minot, MD

@PaulMinotMD

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I've been practicing psychiatry for 38 years. I love my job, my peers, and my patients. But I've come to the conclusion that I'm participating in the biggest intellectual scam of this era. We claim to be a science, but have no understanding how thought or behavior is generated./1

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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@JoyceWhiteVance The public destruction of truth is intentional & methodical: "The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that.. one could make people believe the most fantastic statements..." - Hannah Arendt in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

5 years

@washingtonpost We are at the point described by Arendt in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism': "In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything & nothing, think that everything was possible & that nothing was true"

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@DebiecJacek

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"Your life gets worse when you start advocating for underrepresented people" - @timnitGebru

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This leading AI expert says she was fired by Google for exposing racial bias in artificial intelligence. Dr. @timnitGebru was part of only 1.6% of Black women employed at Google.

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@DebiecJacek

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"It is truly mind-boggling how many election-denying psychopaths have a path to victory in these races... This is not a drill. Fascism is here. Fascism has momentum... It is going to get worse... In power..they will...further their reach" - @gaslitnation

Kanye. Elon. Trump. | Gaslit Nation

Get more from Gaslit Nation on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

5 years

Editorial Boards: The Washington Post: Impeach Los Angeles Times: Impeach Boston Globe: Impeach Orlando Sentinel: Impeach Philadelphia Inquirer: Impeach USA Today: Impeach

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@politico

5 years

The journalistic juices are now flowing, with the editorial pages of The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Orlando Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today all calling for impeachment of President Trump

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@Anna_Mierzynska @synczeslawa Jako profesor psychiatrii, prosze profesora socjologii, Ireneusza Krzeminskiego o powstrzymanie sie od stawiania diagnoz chorob umyslowych osobom publicznym. Szkodzi to przede wszystkim pacjentom, a profesorowi i jego dyscyplinie nie przysparza autorytetu

Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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@SylwiaSpurek @wsamraz Medialne „diagnozowanie" prowadzi do trywializacji zaburzeń i niepełnosprawności. Kondycja, która jest powodem cierpienia dotkniętej osoby i najbliższych staje się środkiem walki politycznej, okazją do chwilowej sławy lub pretekstem do rozrywki medialnej.

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@DebiecJacek

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@MartaHabior Brak zaloby i udawanie, ze nic sie nie stalo, kiedy na kowid zmarlo sto tysiecy osob - rodzicow, rodzenstwa, przyjaciol, sasiadow, kolezanek i kolegow z pracy, to przekraczanie pewnej granicy. Dla tego pokolenia juz nieodwracalne przekraczanie. Utracona wrazliwosci nie wroci.

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@DebiecJacek

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Pope Francis recalls seeing a psychiatrist four decades ago in Argentina: "It helped me locate myself and learn to manage my anxiety and avoid being rushed when making decisions... I am extremely grateful..."

El Papa iba a una psiquiatra

El Papa Francisco cuenta así su experiencia en el diván: «El tratamiento con la psiquiatra me ayudó además a ubicarme y a aprender a manejar mi ansiedad y evitar el apresuramiento

www.elmundo.es

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@DebiecJacek

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@PSzubartowicz Brytyjski historyk Alan Bulock o odmowie niemieckich komunistow zawiazania koalicji z politycznym centrum przeciw NSDAP: "[The Communists] openly announced that they would prefer to see the Nazis in power rather than lift a finger to save the republic" (Hitler:A Study in Tyranny)

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@DebiecJacek

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Viktor Frankl, in 1940 joined the only hospital in Vienna still admitting Jews, spent three years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps: “Don't aim at success... Listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge."

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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As a child & adolescent psychiatrist, students' #mentalhealth will not benefit from adding additional #DBT -based or #mindfulness classes. It would benefit from reducing academic load and changing focus from academics only to overall growth and development, including academics.

Dr. Lauren Harvey

@lauren_harvey11

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New publication alert 🚨 🚨 🚨 deterioration in MH outcomes following delivery of DBT-based universal intervention in #schools . Enthusiasm for DBT-based programs in schools currently miles ahead of the research evidence! #DBT #MentalHealthAwareness

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@DebiecJacek

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@PSzubartowicz Jeśli być w zgodzie z rzeczywistością, to trzeba by wprowadzić stan klęski moralnej.

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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@Tamara10612 @Bacon227 Za 20 lat ten obecnie młody człowiek będzie mówił "ja tylko wykonywałem rozkazy".

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@DebiecJacek

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@Tsihanouskaya Hello from #Michigan , #USA to the brave people of #Belarus ! I am wearing this shirt the whole day today in #SolidarityWithBelarus 🤍❤️🤍. Peaceful civil movements win. You will win, too. Don't give up! We are with you! #StandWithBelarus

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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The mind-body problem is a prevalent wake-up time phenomenon.

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@DebiecJacek

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This is war. The hybrid war. Deutsche Welle: "Cambridge Analytica, collaborating with a software company, has created a platform for US churches that targets the poor, the addicted and the disabled — to radicalize them for far-right politics."

US religious data platform targets vulnerable people

A new film reveals how Cambridge Analytica, collaborating with a software company, has created a platform for US churches that targets the poor, the addicted and the disabled — to radicalize them for...

www.dw.com

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@DebiecJacek

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Lech Walesa, in response to my question about what courage meant to him: [Courage is] "to believe in and to persevere". And added on a lighter note: "In my life, I've only feared God..a little bit. And my wife." It's easier to be courageous when you know and accept your fears😉

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@DebiecJacek

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"We have been trying to tell the world for 22 years...who Vladimir Putin was. And it wasn't...a secret. One of the first things Vladimir Putin did when he came to power in the year 2000 was to reinstate the Stalin-era Soviet national anthem." - @vkaramurza

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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In 2018, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff buy Time from Meredith Corp. In June 2021, Marc Benioff reveals that he is an investor in Elon Musk’s SpaceX. In December 2021, Time names Elon Musk "2021 Person of the Year".

TIME

@TIME

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Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ) is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY

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@DebiecJacek

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As a child psychiatrist, I too often see children diagnosed with #autism being forced to abruptly leave their comfort zone. A better strategy is to let the child stay in their comfort zone and support them in gradually expanding it at their own pace.

Anna Rebowska

@anna_rebowska

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If your autistic child is trying to make friends but having a hard time with it don't put them in social skills training class. Help them find a group linked to their interests and passions. That can lead to real and lasting connections.

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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@PSzubartowicz Niech sobie dziennikarze Trojki poczytaja Platona do poduszki. __________ "Najgorsza forma oszukiwania jest samooszukiwanie." Plato.

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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This is the reality we live in. If we are to change it, we have to acknowledge its existence first. "Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II." - New York Times Editorial Board

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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@ricenola1 @Michal_Bilewicz @ElbietaKrgiel @oloziolo Ciekawe, ze pani Kinga Duda zwrocila sie do osob wykluczanych ("nikt nie powinien sie bac"), a nie do wykluczajacych ("nikt nie powinien straszyc i wykluczac"). To tak, jakby uwazala, ze lekarstwem na strach przed skutkami homofobii i nienawisci jest leczenie tego strachu.

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@DebiecJacek

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@SethAbramson Among the 14 core characteristic features of fascism, listed by Umberto Eco, are machismo & weaponry, and contempt for the weak.

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@DebiecJacek

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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that the Ukrainian military would release captured Russian POWs under one condition: a POW's mother has to come to Kiev and take her child from captivity in person.

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@DebiecJacek

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The New European's Person of the Year 2021 is Richard Ratcliffe, indefatigable husband of Iranian hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. "For those human qualities - bravery, loyalty, integrity, intelligence, sacrifice..."

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@DebiecJacek

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The ad is misleading. No psychotropic agent has over 90% efficacy in reducing depressive symptoms. Medications should not be advertised like gardening tools, cleaning supplies, or politicians. Especially, not by licensed healthcare professionals. Medical ethics applies.

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@DebiecJacek

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@MaxBoot @DrWinarick "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), 16th President of the United States

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@DebiecJacek

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@Tamara10612 @JudgesSsp @KozminskiUni PiS zabiera sie za uniwersytety. Jedne niszczy od wewnatrz, obsadzajac je swoimi nominatami, ktorzy zwalniaja niepokornych. Inne ulegaja politycznym i ekonomicznym naciskom z zewnatrz. To jest haniebne, krotkowzroczne i zdradza misje uniwersytetow.

Prof. Janusz Majcherek zwolniony. "Moje miejsce na UP zajmie osoba posłuszna nowym władzom"

- Wśród pracowników, którzy zachowali miejsce pracy, są osoby ode mnie starsze. Nawet takie są teraz na Uniwersytecie Pedagogicznym zatrudniane. Czym to tłumaczyć, jeśli nie chęcią nadania nowego...

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Rethinking antipsychotics? Analysis of 3325 in vitro receptor affinity studies clusters antipsychotics in 4 groups with predominant: 1.muscarinic antagonism 2. dopamine (D2) partial agonism 3.serotonergic & dopaminergic antagonism 4.adrenergic antagonism

Data-Driven Taxonomy for Antipsychotic Medication: A New Classification System

Globally, there are more than 25 licensed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotics are commonly described as either typical or atypical, but this dichotomous classification does not reflect the...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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@DebiecJacek

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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“Here we have people using tools of brand-building to build the brand of an accused criminal and that is taking us places that are very different.” Is there a safe return from these "places that are very different"?

Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse’s new merchandise site signals ‘new era’ of criminal defense

The site, which sells “Free Kyle” T-shirts, could influence the jury pool, an expert warned.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

1 year

As a child psychiatrist, I routinely ask families whether screaming is frequent and normalized in their homes. Being a behavioral neuroscientist has taught me that exposure to screaming triggers a cascade of physiological responses that, in most cases, make things worse.

Dr Annie Hickox

@DrAnnieHickox

1 year

Incredibly powerful, and sad, article about a daughter who inherited her father’s propensity for screaming at his children. Very interesting to read how she learned to change this intergenerational pattern. ⁦ @TheCut ⁩ Inheriting My Father’s Rage

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@SchwertnerPL @Tulilam Jako psychiatra, leczący zarówno dzieci, jak i dorosłych, mogę dodać, że państwo, które tnie wydatki na psychiatrię dziecięcą, będzie miało w dłuższej perspektywie znacznie wyższe wydatki na psychiatrię dorosłych. I nie tylko na psychiatrię.

Janusz Schwertner

@SchwertnerPL

3 years

Państwo, w którym 47 senatorów jest przeciwko przyznaniu pieniędzy na psychiatrię dziecięcą jest chore. Dożywotni wstyd.

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

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Teaching prescribing psychotropic medications without teaching how to safely deprescribe them is like teaching a pilot to take off and fly without teaching them to safely land.

Mark Horowitz

@markhoro

6 months

Glad that @ABCaustralia is highlighting the issues that people are having when they stop psychiatric drugs - hopefully clinicians will take deprescribing as seriously as prescribing.

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A new meta-analysis found that #placebo is most effective in "major depressive disorder..., followed by..generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, ADHD, PTSD, social phobia, mania, and OCD... while patients with schizophrenia benefited the least".

Differential Outcomes Associated With Placebo Treatment Across 9 Psychiatric Disorders

This systematic review and meta-analysis compares outcomes in placebo groups in 90 randomized clinical trials across 9 psychiatric disorders.

jamanetwork.com

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@DebiecJacek

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"Fear contagion is an evolutionarily old phenomenon...Like other animals, people are also sensitive to panic or fear expressed by our kin." - my latest for @ConversationUS Special thanks to @MaggieConvo for her editorial help! #CoronavirusPandemic

Fear can spread from person to person faster than the coronavirus – but there are ways to slow it...

It can feel like everyone is stewing in anxiety about COVID-19 and seeing other people freak out can make you freak out more. A psychiatrist explains this phenomenon, and how to keep it in check.

theconversation.com

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

2 years

Administrators in our department routinely call psychiatrists "prescribers". This week, a psychiatrist faculty colleague introduced other psychiatrists as "prescribers" to psychiatry residents joining our team. Do we want young psychiatrists to think they are just "prescribers"?

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"The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it." RIP Daniel Dennett (March 28, 1942 - April 19, 2024)

Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)

Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died. Professor Dennett wrote...

dailynous.com

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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"Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them" - a nice read by @grace_huckins on recent studies by @RRitunnano @TheLancetPsych and @paolofusar @WPA_Psychiatry , respectively. via @wired

Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them

A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t.

www.wired.com

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Jacek Debiec MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎

@DebiecJacek

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"Older leadership in the Republican Party..are enacting the agenda..set by younger members & their far-right politics.. On the Democratic side, you have older leadership that is..stonewalling the priorities..of its younger & lefter generation"- @rtraister

Is Sen. Dianne Feinstein Unfit to Serve in Congress? | Amanpour and...

In her latest profile, journalist and author Rebecca Traister examines the five-decade career of Senator Dianne Feinstein -- from San Francisco to the U.S. S...

www.youtube.com

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@DebiecJacek

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@maddow Better Paris than Kansas. These were the news in 12/2017: "France’s president awards millions of euros to 18 American scientists to relocate in effort to counter Donald Trump on the climate change front."

Macron awards US scientists grants to move to France in defiance of Trump

France’s president awards millions of euros to 18 American scientists to relocate in effort to counter Donald Trump on the climate change front

www.theguardian.com

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