Not a fan of the CATIE study, though from a practical standpoint, this was one of the most useful findings. Prescribers were seeing this already and patients were reporting RAPID weight gain, sometimes 20lb or more in a month.
I so glad I don't even know what that is.
During my 1st year of fellowship training I had a PG-2 IM resident & their attending claim I couldn't have ADHD bc I never would have graduated from my psych program. They ignored my voluminous medical records, which included copies of my elementary school transcripts w. quarterly notes from my teachers bc my mother kept all of it. Even from the grave, my mom still had my back.
Indeed, hence the idea of "adult-onset ADHD." Which is usually coupled with other interesting stuff, such as, "patient has remote history of mTBI. Is remarkably anxious, which is only partially managed with daily clonazepam. Poor sleep. Says they sometimes misplace keys and zone out while driving. Suspect dementia due to TBI with adult-onset ADHD. Possibly also PTSD."
I can’t tell you how much I see IFS being described when im conducting peer review smh
Should've gotten a job walking tigers.
I have luckily avoided hearing anyone mention it in my academic circles, but it is rampant in clinical circles.
I’ve always wanted to own a few large cats. Inevitably one would end me with their murder paws, but it would have been fun otherwise.
Only in psychotherapy do we see people deliberately go out of their way to do weird pseudoscience-y stuff that comes with ambiguous instructions, poor research support, and is probably MORE difficult to implement.
There are so many real (and iatrogenic) dynamics going on here that no one openly discusses, it's unreal.
I mean, VA offers Healing Touch as part of its Whole Health initiative, or at least they used to. Systems are...strange.
Sex sells 🙂
It sounds like an ability out of a Persona game, not a real thing, ngl.
I mean, I might buy it if the therapist said something like, "90% of the population could read the DSM-5 section on personality disorders and for at least one symptom say, 'yeah, I kinda do that sometimes.'" But my cynicism prevents me from believing that's what the therapist actually said.
Omg now I remember—that’s the thing that lets you slow time during surgery in Trauma Team! A+ game but also not, you know, real.
"All have won and all must have prizes."
Healing Touch sounds like when a sketchy clinician needs to expand their Reiki practice, but still doesn’t want to bother w an actual treatment.
Anecdotally, I’ve only seen a small number of programs that actually require therapy. I also think therapy just for the sake of therapy (without distress or psychopathology) is kind of a waste of resources.
100% agree.
I have distinct memories of loving this game and recall after beating the game that it had a message roughly about "beating this game does not make you a surgeon, and if you are a surgeon, you do not have to tell your patients that you played this game" lol 😆.
Yes, great point. You encourage an EMDR or IFS practitioner to (where it’s EMDR) follow the damn protocol (so many peer reviewed EMDR notes that never seem to get to the imaginal exp-esque parts for some reason…) or do some sort of exposure therapy instead of IFS and I get ****ing crickets. It’s still such a pervasive problem educating people that exposure therapy is effective, safe, and robustly supported. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great first choice for conditions characterized by fear and distress.
When epidemiological facts become 'hate,' further intelligent discussion becomes impossible.
Sure, but much of what they're advocating for is exceptionally old, psychoanalytic-derived stuff. Which I think is odd for so-called progressives to support given they claim CBT is "Western, White-centric, and patriarchal..." like, bruh, psychoanalysis is as Western, White-centric, and patriarchal as literally any mainstream psychotherapy modality has ever been.
