https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/public/ recent bookmarks from Michael.Massing 2026-04-26T19:30:12+00:00 https://www.patreon.com/posts/eugenicist-rfk-156210295?post_id=156210295&utm_id=ef7594c9-386b-4f98-bef7-72dd341d4812 Michael.Massingethics medical policy public health social chronic illness disease disability RFKjr eugenics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:9c31a9220a92/ 2021-07-14T21:08:38+00:00 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-xpm-2013-apr-07-la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407-story.html Michael.Massinggrieving dying sickness illness terminal speech comfort in mourning consideration communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:a00610ee5ebd/ 2017-06-30T01:26:56+00:00 http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/articles/life-without-sex-what-they-forget-to-tell-you-about-chronic-illness-w449761 Michael.Massingchronic illness disease sex mecfs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:c12f395027c8/ 2017-04-14T15:53:08+00:00 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28243210 Michael.Massing self treatment management behavior dietary diet intervention correlation obesity impulsivity impulse control metabolic disorder metabolism mental illness neurobiology peer-reviewed research aggression physical therapy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:bc00d6af68d7/ 2016-06-02T02:34:28+00:00 http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/ Michael.Massingspoon theory chronic illness #spoonie disability disease management https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:d5bdd632e470/ 2012-06-12T00:53:29+00:00 http://www.stopstigma.samhsa.gov/topic/facts.aspx Michael.Massingviolence illness data mental health research literature review correlation behavioral https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:d76ab308be3a/ 2012-02-21T06:46:15+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/health/depression-defies-rush-to-find-evolutionary-upside.html?_r=4&ref=science Michael.Massing disability morbidity mortality risk depression evolution theory comorbidities brain medical research hippocampus cardiovascular mental health illness chronic hatmandu earnest https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:21a6b6dcb1a4/ 2011-12-27T01:29:01+00:00 http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUH/2k6NSDUH/2k6results.cfm#Ch8 Michael.Massing mental health illness disorder prevalence treatment care services delivery access https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:b94738c06fce/ 2011-08-17T23:00:26+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904480904576496271983911668.html Michael.Massing A new mother's exhaustion and disinterest in her baby seem like postpartum depression—but actually signal a postpartum thyroid imbalance that medication can correct.
A middle-aged manager has angry outbursts at work and frequently feels "ready to explode." A brain scan reveals temporal-lobe seizures, a type of epilepsy that can be treated with surgery or medication.
More than 100 medical disorders can masquerade as psychological conditions, according to Harvard psychiatrist Barbara Schildkrout, who cited these examples among others in "Unmasking Psychological Symptoms," a book aimed at helping therapists broaden their diagnostic skills.
Studies have suggested that medical conditions may cause mental-health issues in as many as 25% of psychiatric patients and contribute to them in more than 75%.]]> medicine mental health psychosomatic healthcare illness comorbidities symptoms mind-body treatment earnest diagnosis https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:68833e360928/ 2011-08-16T23:07:56+00:00 http://gawker.com/5829288/congratulations-youre-not-crazy-youre-just-sick Michael.Massing According to Barbara Schildkrout's new book Unmasking Psychological Symptoms, some of the common things that therapists treat their clients for can be caused with medical intervention....
Just like depression might be caused (or worsened) by the conditions above, if you're anxious you may have an overactive thyroid, if you're irritable you might have a brain injury, if you're hallucinating you might have epilepsy or, you know, a drug problem, and if you're psychotic, it's probably just from a venereal disease, not because of something awful that happened to you in your formative years.]]> diagnosis mental illness comorbidities psychosomatic symptoms mind-body medicine treatment https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:9314c5ffc549/ 2011-08-16T03:33:26+00:00 http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/09/the-benefits-of-mental-illness-and-why-perfectly-normal-leaders-are-the-wrong-people-for-a-crisis/ Michael.Massing Kennedy as mentally ill and Nixon as normal? I define mental health as the absence of mental illness and being within the normal range of personality traits]; Nixon’s biography, looking for the 4 objective markers of mental illness, supports that conclusion. People ascribe mental abnormality to Nixon because they don't like his behaviours; that reflects psychological stigma,] stigma against mental illness, which is really very deep-rooted in our society.]]> mental illness leadership politics personality mood disorder dysthymia depression Nixon Kennedy symptoms Hitler drug effects history psychohistory earnest https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:e75500f53278/ 2011-05-02T01:08:30+00:00 http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ Michael.MassingNIOSH CDC health safety government work occupational database reference data labor risk mortality disease illness https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:47297c957f09/ 2011-05-02T00:28:50+00:00 http://www.bls.gov/iif/ Michael.Massingrisk labor mortality statistics government work employment data occupational illness injury https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:797fdccf5c63/ 2011-04-23T06:25:23+00:00 http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/Blog/David-Spero/diabetes_and_the_brain/ Michael.Massing "[I]nsulin problems in the brain may, in turn, make people more vulnerable to Type 2 diabetes.” Lab mice modified to block insulin processing in the brain became obese and showed signs of diabetic insulin resistance.
For a while, doctors were treating schizophrenia by putting people into insulin shock. Some, such as John Nash, Jr., the mathematician portrayed in the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” actually benefited, but up to 10% of the patients died, and by the early 1960’s the treatment had been stopped.
In 2005, researchers at Psychiatric Genomics discovered that the same 14 genes that are missing in the brains of people with schizophrenia are also missing in muscle tissue of people with diabetes. In the lab, they were able to increase the availability of those genes by giving insulin, which could lead to new therapies for schizophrenia.]]> diabetes brain mental illness medical research David Spero treatment comment correlation insulin resistance T2D type 2 peer-reviewed https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:9849aed9d303/ 2011-02-24T00:47:12+00:00 http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/articles/blood_glucose_monitoring/the_benefits_of_tight_control/all/ Michael.Massing delivery system illness management diabetes treatment remission A1c comorbidities blood glucose eyes neuropathy kidneys prevention tight control chronic health care healthcare Maine model self what.I'm.reading burden risk benefit T2D research kidney disease nephropathy intensive https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:594480e0a4fa/ 2011-01-15T21:42:08+00:00 http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/are-more-gun-laws-for-mentally-ill-off-target-26967/ Michael.Massing mental illness law crime guns violence risk benefit outbasket legislation regulation via:PLM outbox https://twitter.com/ https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:06bd5281fc67/ 2011-01-14T00:51:41+00:00 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/12/galston/index.html Michael.Massing [In the] 1960s when thousands of people were incarcerated against their will [there were far more violent attacks on political figures] (MLK, JFK, RFK, George Wallace, Malcolm X, etc.) than there have been during the relatively peaceful time beginning in the 1980s when involuntary commitment became much more difficult.]]> mental illness civil liberties outbasket opportunism repression politics outbox https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:598dbd345844/ 2011-01-10T02:37:03+00:00 http://www.slate.com/id/2280619/ Michael.Massing Advertisement


Of course, like the rest of the population, some people with mental illness do become violent, and some may be riskier when they're experiencing delusions and hallucinations. But these infrequent cases do not make "schizophrenia" or "bipolar" a helpful general-purpose explanation for criminal behavior.]]> mental illness violence risk statistics data research crime outbasket outbox https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:cf9646d57331/ 2010-05-04T21:21:14+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/business/media/03adnewsletter1.html?tntemail1=y&emc=tnt&pagewanted=all Michael.Massing mental illness depression brain social stigma documentary advocacy outbasket outbox https://pinboard.in/u:Michael.Massing/b:0edc994f1b24/