I agree with you 100%. Clinicians, particularly those who work in community mental health agencies and public hospitals, are in no position to take advantage of the current research in neuroscience and psychopharmacology in their practices. They need evidence-based behavioral symptom markers to aid in designing…

You can't get insurance to pay for any other therapy, like CBT, either if you don't have a diagnosis.

You're so right. People need to just deal with these things. I mean, atypical grief and depression and mood-disorders haver existed throughout time but in the past people just dealt with those things. And that basically worked out, right? I mean, yeah, some people committed suicide, and some people killed their…

My sense is that the addition of Major Depressive Disorder (normal grief) is more descriptive than prescriptive. I know several people who have taken antidepressants for a few months to help them remain functional while they worked through some heavy-duty grief like that resulting from the sudden loss of a child or…

Sometimes I wonder if they are trying to expand diagnoses broadly so insurance will cover what ever ails anyone who needs to talk to someone and get help when they are stuck. If it isn't in the DSM insurance won't pay for it. If your child is murdered and your very sad for months and cant work or your work suffers…

I am so glad other people have the same feels. I just got back from a conference of all clinical psychologists, and those feels were certainly not there. The pro-APA koolaid was definitely being served.

The numbers for BED aren't arbitrary. They used to requre 2-3 binges/week over a course of six months, which was much longer than what they required for the other eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia). The shortening was done for a few reasons: first, to make BED systematically equal to AN and BN; second, shortening…

DSM 5 isn't a paradigm shift, but the NIMH's choice to not support it definitely is. While Insel might say that we need to move toward a mechanism that uses neuroscience, genetics and biology to inform diagnoses, what he doesn't mention is the fact that the methodology needed to perform diagnostics using these…

Oh lord, Laura, I love your stuff and nothing against you, but can we get a science reporter please?

Let's get real, here... Lead is awful, and it's strange and not ok that lipsticks contain as much lead as they do. But lipstick is not a major source of the lead we've all got kicking around our bodies! There's lead in our environment in general, thanks to decades of spreading it around in the form of lead paint and…

"Guys & Dolls" wouldn't be a remake though. It is a stage production, which means it's /intended/ to be performed by new casts all the time. The previous filmed version was just one interpretation of the musical.