Psychiatric Times’ Top 10 Most Engaging Tweets of the Year

Here it is-the 50 most important things @AllenFrancesMD has learned in over 50 years studying psychiatry. https://psychiatrictimes.com/couch-crisis/advice-young-psychiatrists-very-old-one.

Conversations in Critical #Psychiatry: @Awaisaftab's first in a collection of interviews with prominent individuals who have made meaningful criticisms of psychiatry and have offered constructive alternative perspectives. First up @AllenFrancesMD. https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/couch-crisis/conversations-critical-psychiatry-allen-frances-md

Maternal #suicide is a leading cause of #pregnancy-related deaths. More postpartum women die from suicide than from medical causes. This is why maternal #mentalhealth is everybody’s business. https://umassmed.edu/lifeline4moms/blog/blog-posts/2019/05/why-maternal-mental-health-is-everybodys-business--and-what-we-can-do-about-it/@Lifeline4Moms

Imagine a day where none of your coworkers would look at you, your family all ignored you when you tried to speak to them...How would that feel? Now imagine it happening every day. https://invisiblepeople.tv/making-eye-contact-with-homeless-people-is-important#mentalhealth@invisiblepeople

Fast fact: Most clinicians are not aware that #suicide risk should be addressed specifically and separately from the primary psychiatric diagnosis http://ow.ly/ShO330ndVQg#mentalhealth#health#medicine

New Approaches to Management of #Depressionhttp://ja.ma/2KdhM1q @JAMA_current#mentalhealth

Today (May 1) marks the beginning of #MentalHealthMonth. Practice kindness, patience, and care for yourself and others. You never know what people are going through.

A comprehensive overview of the clinical and conceptual challenges presented by psychosis that is due to TBI. (Free CME, open to all health professionals) http://ow.ly/F2Lm30oxexW#MentalHealthAwareness#TBI

What will happen in 2020 in digital psychiatry? My colleague and friend @JohnTorousMD has made seven predications for @PsychTimes.  (And, on a personal note, I'm pleased to be involved in the @APAPsychiatric project mentioned on the seventh prediction.) (@DavidGratzer). Read: 7 Trends in Digital Mental Health in 2020

There is more to borderline personality disorder than meets the eye. A complex interaction exists between environmental, anatomical, functional, genetic, and epigenetic factors. http://ow.ly/LToU30oy108#mentalhealth#psychiatry#neuro#brain