Mental Health

Photos: Senator Roy Blunt Promotes Mental Health Plan, Irritated By Gun Control Questions

Late Friday afternoon, Senator Roy Blunt held a press conference at the Betty Jean Kerr People's Health Center in St. Louis to promote his plan to improve mental health treatment across the country. The time is right, he told reporters, since people want concrete actions taken in response to the ... More >>

Sue Gibson, HIV Patient in Castlewood Case: Other Patients May Have Been Denied Care

The Department of Justice agreed last week that a St. Louis eating disorder clinic discriminated against an HIV-positive woman by intentionally delaying her admittance and denying her treatment. Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders has been ordered to pay a $140,000 settlement, the secon ... More >>

Castlewood Eating Disorder Clinic: Sue Gibson Denied Treatment Because of HIV Status

In a statement released late yesterday afternoon, the Department of Justice announced it reached a settlement with Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders over its refusal to treat an HIV-positive woman suffering from anorexia. Susan Gibson, a mid-Missouri resident, tried to gain acceptanc ... More >>

CutForBieber Was a 4chan Prank, but in 2013 Pranks and Trends are Basically the Same Thing

Pranks are never more effective than when a prankster finds the precise border between reality and absurdity and just barely steps over it. This week's #CutForBieber trending topic--in which Justin Bieber fans were supposed to be cutting themselves in an attempt to force their ur-boyfriend off marij ... More >>

Jamilah Nasheed Deletes Tweet About School Shooter and Asperger's Syndrome

Looks like State Representative Jamilah Nasheed from the 60th District in St. Louis has had second thoughts about a tweet she put out last evening. Here's a screenshot (and our apologies for the quality):It's been widely reported that Adam Lanza -- the 17-year-old who killed 27 people on Friday insi ... More >>

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate. Where's the military when the chips are down?

Missouri Psychologist Lobbies for Health Insurance Coverage for Eating Disorders

When Richard P. Martielli took the job as president of the Missouri Psychological Association last summer at age 33, he likely became the youngest person in the country to lead a state psychological association. As MPA president, he works on the legislative side of things, protecting and expanding t ... More >>

Vicious Cycle: Dorian Williams thought he was a bike champion, shrinks and FBI be damned

Wash. U. Doctors Begin Using New Drug-Free Cure for Depression

Electroshock therapy is like a relic from bad fifties science fiction (and sounds scary as hell to boot -- though we admit our opinion, just like everyone else's, has been strongly influenced by the therapy scenes in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Pills make you feel like all you ... More >>

Church of Scientology's "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Exhibit Returns to St. Louis

Psychiatry buffs rejoice and praise Xenu! The "state-of-the-art international touring exhibit" Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is returning to Missouri for the first time since its appearance at the Jamestown Mall three years ago! You can catch ... More >>

That's Entertainment

St. Louis County Looking Nationally to Help Kids With Mental Illnesses

Interesting lead story in today's Post-Dispatch, where Nancy Cambria reports that St. Louis County teenagers beset with mental illnesses are typically turned away by emergency rooms after their first visits and that, in the last 18 months, St. Louis County saw unprecedented demand for domestic viole ... More >>

Mizzou Researcher Studies Time-Honored College Tradition of Drunkorexia

image via​If you've been to college, you've probably heard stories about those girls who skip meals in order to reserve the extra calories for alcohol. It's sort of like the stories about how the pipes in certain sorority houses are corroded because so many of the girls who live there are buli ... More >>

Missouri Among National Leaders in Mental Illness Rates

​Yesterday, we reported on the surprisingly low percentage of drug and alcohol use in Missouri, based on the latest state-by-state data released each year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Today we'll use that same ... More >>

Yoplait Yanks Ad in Light of Language Thought to Trigger Eating Disorders

After complaints from the National Eating Disorders Association, Yoplait has pulled an ad that "contained language NEDA says is a trigger for those most vulnerable" to eating disorders. The offending commercial features a woman debating and bargaining with herself about eating a piece of cheesecake ... More >>

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Fashionably Healthy

St. Louis Events Mark National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

A highlight of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week in St. Louis will be a screening of the 2007 documentary America the Beautiful paired with an appearance by filmmaker Darryl Roberts.​The National Eating Disorders Association has declared February 21-26 National Eating Disorders Awarenes ... More >>

Newsflash: If You Play With Your Kid, It Won't Be Depressed!

image viaOr maybe a sad kid just needs a trip to Disney World and a pretty, pretty princess dress, just like Suri Cruise's.​A team of child psychiatrists at Washington University has made an amazing discovery: The best way for parents to relieve depression in their toddlers is to play with the ... More >>

Wash U Researchers Find Genetic Link Between Obesity and Alcoholism

She may be slim, but you should see her sister.​Step away from the cheeseburger, drunky. Researchers at Washington University have discovered a genetic link between risks for alcoholism and obesity. And the correlation seems to be increasing as Americans get fatter, as we've been doing at an alarm ... More >>

Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?

How Realistic is the Ibogaine Episode of Law & Order: SVU?

Image viaA hallucinogenic cure for drug addiction raises eyebrows -- cast of SVU included​This week's feature story, "Shock the Junkie" takes an in-depth look at ibogaine, a potent hallucinogenic drug that's derived from the roots of an African shrub and used as a treatment for drug addiction.Ibog ... More >>

Blame the Recession for Your Drinking Problem

​Has this ever happened to you?Your concerned friend/family member/bartender/bootlegger gives you big, sad eyes, puts a gentle hand on your elbow and says, in a hushed voice, "I just don't know, Daily RFT reader. You're still incredibly handsome, but you've changed. I think you have a drinkin ... More >>

Forest Pharmaceuticals: Earth City Maker of Children's Anti-Depressant Blasted in Report

jamestorlakson.comJames Torlakson is a father whose website pays tribute to his daughter who killed herself while on Celexa.​Not sure why Post-Dispatch writer Jim Doyle's scathing article today on Earth City-based Forest Pharmaceuticals wasn't featured in Sunday's paper where it would have attract ... More >>

Are Preschoolers in St. Louis Depressed?

flickr.com/photos/zaxl4Fingerpainting? What's the point. ​They definitely can be, according to a 5,000-word story that just came out yesterday in The New York Times Magazine. The main subject of the piece is a kid nicknamed "Kiran," who lives in "suburban St. Louis." Here's an excerpt:Today a numb ... More >>

A Common Sense Approach to Meth Finally Comes Before Congress

Russ Carnahan​"After decades of failed methamphetamine policy - from increased sentences for nonviolent meth-related offenses to making every American show ID to buy cough medicine - Congress is finally learning what teenagers learn in high school economics: as long as there is a demand for someth ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 3.24

​Art history gives indication of how portion sizes have increased over the centuries. The International Journal of Obesity has studied nearly 1000 years of paintings of The Last Supper for clues. (The New York Times) California county votes to consider banning toy tie-ins with junk food. The ... More >>

Body, Language

Readers mull Monsanto and Mexico

Dubious Diagnosis: Does Kahlil Greene Really Have a Social Anxiety Disorder?

flickr.com/photos/adohnes"It's not like catching the chickenpox. There has to be a history." So says Dr. Allan Lans regarding social anxiety disorder and this season's toll of ballplayers said to be suffering from it, a list that includes St. Louis' introspective shortstop Khalil G ... More >>

Sweet Treatment: An experimental program offers rich rewards to drug-addicted ex-cons in St. Louis who keep themselves clean

New Use for Jamestown Mall: Scientology Staging Ground

Sorry folks. Tom Cruise will NOT be at Jamestown Mall. Looking for a way to entertain the kiddies this weekend? Why not take them to Jamestown Mall, where tomorrow (Saturday) the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of St. Louis (co-founded by the Church of Scientology) is opening its exhibit "Psychi ... More >>

Leon examines cures for writer's block

Holy Junkies: Michael Timmins and the Cowboy Junkies release a 20th anniversary edition of Trinity Sessions

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Kids & Drugs & Rock & Roll

At the Crossroads Program in Chesterfield, teen sobriety is supposed to be fun. It's also expensive -- and not everyone's buying.

Apollo Sunshine

Saturday, April 3; the Rocket Bar

These You've Got to See

Five educational films that'll alter your mind

Shifting Ground

Not only are Angel's jailers changing the rules, they're fibbing about them

Fallen Angel

Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

Hard of Hearing

The city was slow in adopting a jail-suicide expert's advice

The Shame of Our City

Week of November 14, 2001

Letters

Week of August 8, 2001

Mind Over Matter

For two decades, psychoanalysts have held fast to their slow, deep exploration of the psyche, reaping only scorn from the science-driven psychiatrists at Washington University. Good thing they didn't listen.

Cowboy Junkies

Monday, July 9; Pageant

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of June 28-July 4, 2000

Cruel and Usual

Tamms Correctional Center is one of the toughest, most expensive and least crowded prisons in the nation. But does it accomplish anything —- besides driving inmates insane?

INSANE VERDICT

The prosecutors paid lip service to Vince Greer's mental illness, but they never really understood it. Apparently the jury didn't, either

DEMONS IN THE COURTROOM

Vince Greer heard voices in his head, then killed his mother. But prosecutors have their own departures from reality.

Sex Starved

For the sexual anorexic, scarred by psychic trauma, a controlled, loveless existence may be easier to bear than the thought of intimacy