Articles about Psychiatry
âOh, beware, my lord, of jealousy.â William Shakespeare has always been regarded as a prescient author, but this line from âOthelloâ rings especially true in todayâs era of social media and seemingly constant comparison. Long before and long since the playwright dubbed this emotion the âgreen-eyed monster,â jealousy has been affecting humans in profound and … Read more
When the mental health profession as we know it today began taking shape in the 1950s, there came with it the hurdle of the social stigma â making families desperate to keep their issues quiet and unknown to friends, acquaintances and relatives. While that stigma still exists to a large extent, mental health support is … Read more
The statistics about men and suicides are alarming: Though men comprise 49% of the population, they account for 80% of all suicides. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression, but men die by suicide three times more often, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Menâs depression and suicide are … Read more
Several years ago, while on a routine neighborhood walk near his home in Greenville, Tommy Lewis Neal came upon a large mastiff at the edge of an unfenced front yard. The dog was standing motionless and silent among a crowd of people, and Neal had the sudden urge both to flee and to stay put … Read more
Even when he was an early teenager growing up in Greenville, S.C. in the 1970s, Henry L. Clark recalls feeling down, listless, and borderline sad at certain times every year. âWe called it being âdown in the dumps,ââ Clark said. âAnd it always seemed to happen for no reason, usually on cold, dismal drizzly days.â … Read more
Lesley Alderman, LCSW, a New York-based psychotherapist, coined the term âhope fatigueâ in a recent Washington Post article. She described it as âexperiencing a deficit of optimismâ and feeling overwhelmed about issues beyond our control. Alderman attributed hope fatigue to the many âexistential threatsâ we have collectively experienced over the past few years, such as … Read more