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Research fellow @MainePolicy , K-12 education. Blog/pod on Mental health at . Analyst for The America Fund. Opinions my own

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Maine students used to rank #1 and 2 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Today, they average 36th. What changed? In a new @MainePolicy report, I chronicle the decline of Maine's K-12 education system over the last few decades. Here is what I found: 🧵1/

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Half of teens now say they don't enjoy life.

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@okimstillhungry When you're as depressed as it sounds like this guy is you really do get upset by anything ruining what little pleasure you can experience.

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26% of people in jail have a serious mental illness. 23% of police shootings since 2015 involved someone with a serious mental illness. Less than 5% of people with a serious mental illness are currently institutionalized. Previously, it was high as 29%.

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The Economics of Mental Illness

Highlights from a new paper

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IFS: We are a legit, evidence-based therapy. Also IFS: Demons are real, but don't worry, we talk about how to deal with them in level 1 of our training.

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Autism researcher publishes study showing most interventions aren't backed by solid science. Whole field threatens to sue him, harasses his family. Turns out most of the research in the field is just case studies with some high-bias RCTs.

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Why autism therapies have an evidence problem

Early interventions for autism lack solid data. The source of this problem is murky but may stem from ongoing debates about evidence quality and entrenched conflicts of interest within the field.

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Why was teen mental health so bad in the early 1990s?

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Neuroscientists should just come out and admit that what they do is a form of idea laundering. Do they even believe this stuff, or is it just so they can keep getting funded? I hope the latter.

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@picardonhealth @PierrePoilievre @sproudfoot @GlobeDebate I don’t feel bad for journalists and neither should you

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@scarlett4kids The fact that so many people are getting triggered by this clip suggests that Harari has hit a nerve. If you’re confident in your beliefs in God, human rights etc. you would not get triggered by a dude telling you they are social constructions.

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There's a certain point at which you realize you're downloading them not to read them, but just to keep them.

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@yifever James Jamerson recorded the bassline to "What's Going On" while lying on the floor because he was so drunk he couldn't sit or stand.

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@TorontoStar What I wish our government would see is that this is not a political issue. It's a medical issue, a medical malpractice issue. Very few people used to get lobotomies but they were still wrong and a disgrace to the doctors who performed them and the governments that allowed them.

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Are there any theories as to why mixed-race adults have such poor mental health? National Institute of Mental Health shows 35.8% had a mental health issue in 2020.

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Since 2013, Maine has fully embraced proficiency-based education, restorative justice, social-emotional learning, and other experimental programs. These were supposed to improve test scores, reduce behavioral issues, and improve mental health. The opposite has happened. 3/

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12% of Americans say they have no close friends.

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The MacKenzie Scott giveaway discourse is making me reevaluate my stance towards grifters. Sure, grifters take rich people's money and do nothing with it. But if the average charitable donation given to "trustworthy" orgs makes things worse, then grifters are net-positive.

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Bush government was planning to implement No Child Left Behind in Iraq after invading. Peak neocon delusion.

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A new preprint finds Ketamine doesn't outperform a placebo (surgical anesthetic) in reducing depression severity.

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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Marginal Revolution comments section than by the Harvard University faculty.

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I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty. — William F Buckley

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For my first Substack post, I decided to write about the mental health of psychologists. TV and movies often portray psychologists as suffering from mental health issues themselves. But is this accurate? The data suggests it is:

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How Sad Are Psychologists?

Evaluating the mental health of mental health professionals

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My uncle, who suffered from early-onset Alzheimer's, died this morning. I wrote about the time I spent working at his nursing home as a pianist, and what Alzheimer's looks like up close.

Being The Piano Guy

A short reflection on my uncle's Alzheimer's

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A principal said he didn't think Canada was more racist than the US in a DEI training. He was called a white supremacist and bullied. His contract was canceled and he was barred from attending graduation ceremonies. He committed suicide.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Toronto principal bullied over false charge of racism dies from suicide

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Over the last four decades, Maine has been a leader in the education reform movement, being one of the first states to develop their own state standards and tests; and making every student take the SAT. The reforms of the last decade, however, have been disastrous. 2/

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@unusual_whales Or we cut entitlements massively so we're not spending our prime years working to fund your failed gerontocracy

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@TorontoMet The morally and historically bankrupt colonized/colonizer rhetoric your professors teach and you endorse is being chanted by the protestors, in toronto today, who cheer on the murder and rape of innocent Israeli civilians. Your neutrality is disgusting. - class of 2021

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@TorontoMet When George Floyd died you sent like a million emails making sure everyone was ok and to let people know you condemned racism. You also set up a whole anti racism task force and commissioned a study of TMU racism. I assume you’ll do the same for Jews/antisemitism, right? Right?

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@econhist_allday After I moved into my apartment, my grandma who lives 2 minutes away invited me for tea. Over a cup of earl gray she explained to me how she had spent years aggressively lobbying against them building my building, but now that it was built wasn't it nice I was there!

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Teachers are burning out from having to comply with the latest changes and deal with students rising behavioral and emotional issues. They have left the profession in droves, leaving Maine with one of the worst teacher shortages in the country. 5/

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@Slatzism There’s a whole podcast about it called “last days of august”. Really worth listening.

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Administrators are overwhelmed, and say they cannot keep up with the fast pace of policy change at the state and federal level. (these quotes are from *before* COVID btw) 4/

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy has long been considered the “gold standard” in psychotherapy. But a new meta-analysis shows it's not much better (or worse) than other therapies at treating depression. I wrote about it here:

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As is to be expected, all of these changes have impacted the quality of education that children in Maine schools receive today. Traditional pedagogy is out the window, standards are dumbed down, and grade inflation is rampant. 6/

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I'm launching a new substack called "Mental Disorder" where I'll explore the science and politics of mental health from a data-driven perspective. I'll be writing on MH trends, treatments, policies, and much more, so stay tuned!

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Subscribe to Mental Disorder

The science and politics of mental health. Click to read Mental Disorder, by Jonah Davids, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

www.mentaldisorder.ca

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Ted Talks have always been bad. They take social scientists’ flashiest least rigorous ideas and broadcast them to an unquestioning audience. They’re still promoting Amy Cuddy’s body language talk in 2023.

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TED is a farce: the organization pumps Ibram Kendi's astrology-level ideology as self-evident truth, while it submits Coleman Hughes' much more rigorous, subtle, and morally persuasive presentation to a full inquisition by social scientists and diversity activists. Disqualifying.

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And this doesn't even get to the more recent and controversial issues around schools becoming ideological environments, the ubiquity of DEI and CRT, sexually explicit lgbtq+ books, schools helping Maine students gender-transition without parental consent, etc. 7/

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Another brilliant expose from @JulesEvans11

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Internal Family Systems, Unattached Burdens, and spirit possession

Is IFS implanting a belief in demons into clients?

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A psychologist is sounding the alarm on healthcare bureaucrats undermining the effectiveness of therapy: "I am not allowed to provide any psychotherapy as designed, researched and manualized because I have next to no control over scheduling or caseload."

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Psychotherapy's Silent Crisis

Healthcare administration is undermining the effectiveness of therapy

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The DSM-6 is gonna be crazy

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Gen Z suffers from ‘menu anxiety’ when dining out — with many too scared to order their own meals

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"Labeling normative experiences as a mental health problem could create a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” whereby a person actually changes their behavior or beliefs to fit a diagnosis, and then actually does experience that mental health problem as a result."

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Is "mental health awareness" counterproductive?

Challenging the way we think about mental health

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Not good

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@PierrePoilievre ? Nobody had ever heard of this. Stop bringing up past injustices plz we already have the liberals and ndp for that.

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The through line with everything here is that when decisions around ed are made top-down by politicians, bureaucrats, and consultants, you end up with harmful policies that don't solve the problems they're intended to and make things worse by overburdening school staff. 8/

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Grandma took me out to lunch with her friends and they’re all talking about their plans to eventually MAID themselves. Life is weird.

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There is more in this report that is insightful as a case study/cautionary tale, and if you have kids in k-12, probably worth reading just to understand the level of insanity going on rn and some of the causes. Download here👇 /end

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Maine Policy Releases New Analysis on Decline of Maine K-12 Education

PRESS RELEASEContact:Jacob PosikDirector of Legislative AffairsOffice: [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Decline of Maine K-12 Education: 1984-2022Maine Policy Institute …

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Canada: a place where, if you have the right skin color, you can impregnate your intellectually disabled daughter and get no jail time.

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2023 NSCA 58: Derrick JA, for maj., upholds conditional sentence for incest, noting that Bill C-5 intended to address “systemic anti-Black racism and the well-documented over-incarceration of racialized offenders”. Dissent: penitentiary sentence required.

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"Buried in technical reviews of su*cide intervention efficacy, scholars will admit, 'There are no well-established, empirically supported treatments for decreasing su*cide attempts or non-su*cidal self-injury in adolescents with elevated su*cide risk.”

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How (Not) To Prevent Youth Suicide

Less talk, more action

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The weakness of the safe supply lit is actually insane. Like it hasn't even been necessary for the proponents to concoct some p-hacked faux-quant results, it's just qualitative interview papers all the way down.

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Dr. Julian Somers

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Our review of “Safe Supply” replicated the results of a previous review, which found no clear evidence of safety or effectiveness Academic evidence has not advanced meaningfully since our work But the evidence in our communities is powerful

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Also, the pace of change matters a lot. Having a few top-down policy changes a year isn't too hard to comply with, and may be beneficial. But when it's non-stop torrent of mandates, priorities, and changes being rained down on schools, of course they'll struggle to keep up. 9/

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Dick Schwartz, IFS founder at 22 minutes. Describes unattached burdens as not attached to a part of the self, not native to the self, very nasty and leading people to do bad things, traditionally described as entities.

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Dr Richard Schwartz interview with Chloe Urban

Dick Schwartz talks about Internal Family Systems with Chloe Urban of chloefaithurban.com.

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Supreme Court of Canada just struck down the mandatory minimum sentence for child luring. They called it "cruel and unusual punishment". The minimum sentence was previously 6-12 months. This country is evil.

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@6ixbuzztv "It's not a crime for me, I'm fighting for justice"

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@mattyglesias Agree w/ this, and I think a lot of the Jordan Petersony utilitarian or pragmatic arguments for belief are a distraction from actual questions over God's existence which are ultimately more important and fulfilling than larping belief.

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In 2010, one in ten college students had an anxiety disorder. By 2019, that number had reached one in four.

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Doctors and nurses are rated the most trustworthy professionals in America.

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Gambling is the vice I am most in favor of heavily regulating or possibly banning. What societal or individual benefit comes from being allowed to gamble away your life savings through your iPhone? The house always wins.

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We're at a place now where people need a licensed professional to tell them to spend time in nature, sleep 8 hours, see friends, etc. Stuff like this has to be part of the mental health solution, but the fact it's needed is an indictment of our culture in so many ways.

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🏞️ 'Nature prescriptions' are on the rise Programs like @NatlParkRx and Canada's PaRx help doctors prescribe free national park passes to patients and The Lancet just published a systematic review on 28+ different studies across the world

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“Little independent scientific evidence shows that cannabis is an effective treatment for anxiety problems, and some studies have found it can worsen symptoms. Researchers say this is particularly true for products high in THC.”

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Following the release of my report on Maine's declining K-12 education system, @mdoenews publicly attempted to discredit the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a widely respected educational policy research tool that I utilized. My official response is below:

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I have a new article for @TheHubCanada on Canada's mental health crisis. According to new data from @StatCan_eng , the number of Canadians with major depressive disorder has increased 62% since 2012, and the number with anxiety disorders has doubled.

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University is where you *should* make the best friends, since you're surrounded by people who chose to devote 4 years to the same thing as you, but most people I know made few good friends in uni and still hang w/ high school pals.

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@manofbert In today's day and age it's a bad idea to undercharge for your tickets because they'll get snapped up by scalpers. It actually ends up hurting your fans more since the scalpers will price-gouge.

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@AxiomAmerican Based on how people use it I think "true self" means doing the things you would want to do absent social pressure. Which, depending on the person, could be really good or really bad lol.

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“After 1 year about 54% of young people with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression recover without any specific mental health treatment.”

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One-year recovery rates for young people with depression and/or anxiety not receiving treatment: a...

CRD42021251556.

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Back at the @mainegop convention today where we held an education round table and heard from parents, teachers, and school board members on the problems facing their districts. Again, so cool to see research having real-world impact and resonating w/ ppl on the ground.

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Do psychiatrists deserve the blame for rising rates of mental illness? @awaisaftab joins me on the Mental Disorder podcast to talk about the anti-psychiatry movement, and what critics of psychiatry get right and wrong.

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Most people on the editorial boards of these journals are trained in Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and are hostile to anything undermining their claim to being an "evidence-based" method.

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@PrinceVogel I have no problem with spirituality or religion but this is a therapy being done on often imaginative and impressionable people and they will very much be influenced by whatever folk-metaphysic is used. Not right to tell them their problems are caused by demons..

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I wrote about a new sociology paper that finds workers who participate in corporate mental health programs aren't better off than those who don't.

Corporate Mental Health Programs Don't Work

And honestly, did anyone ever think they did?

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@ZivoAdam 1. Tyranny of the minority exists. We should not give in to the whims of a tiny ideological group. 2. Normalizing F->M transition is harmful. It historically almost never happened and has increased by an insane amount since trans became the hot issue.

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@RichardHanania What I don't understand is why he would have lunch before attending the company picnic? Surely there would be food served there?

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As a somewhat shy person, I find it difficult to be at an event where there's nothing explicit to do. Like give me a game, a conversation starter, a script, a small group activity, something to be a part of. But I find it difficult just being there and mingling. Anyone relate?

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Anxious people are uncomfortable when they don't feel totally in control. So they try and control other people in socially acceptable ways. Control the food, control the events, control the culture, control the norms. This makes them feel more comfortable.

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Gen Z are so cowardly they won't show their faces in zoom meetings. Some won't even speak, just type in the chat. The expectation is so low these days.

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Standpoint epistemology is literally killing people

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People who use drugs are the experts in their own lives, & #harmreduction must center their needs, expertise, & voices. Join us @DrugPolicyOrg 's conference this Oct. to hear more from PeerUp & how we're all called in to show up for people who use drugs:

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