“Does Psychiatry Need Science?”

“A group of seventeen prominent doctors; biological psychiatrists, experts in diagnostics, subspecialists in the field of depression, and even a historian; petitioned the D.S.M.-5 mood-disorders committee to add a diagnosis they named melancholia… melancholia lost its place…

The Magpie

The Magpie yearns for the palpable.

The finitude of his black and white stuff.

His reflection in the pool, whose languorous blue subsumes him,

consumes him as he drinks.

A Match Made in Hell — The Reality of Amphetamines and ADHD

(Disclaimer: What you are about to read is my personal experience, not a scientific study. Anything written here is solely my observations from things I have experienced and therefore should be approached as such.)

‘Like falling in love competitively.’ Love this line. Thank you Naomi for this refreshingly honest and liberating essay. As a psychiatrist who works every day trying to help people with anorexia and other eating disorders recover, I know how prevalent the problem of people hating their bodies is. Believe me, the skinniest people I’ve ever met are the…