Digging deeper into the CDC report regarding suicides, I find that the factors that appear to be significantly correlated with suicides today are the same as I was taught on the first day of my psychiatry residency training – male gender, access to firearms and current substance use.
Lived experience can create a quick shortcut to the therapeutic alliance but is neither necessary nor sufficient to be an effective healer.
The same factors that help free humans achieve their full potential help captive orangutans be more curious and creative than their wild cousins.
A couple of days ago, Mountain View, CA police released the video footage of their interaction with Nasim Aghdam about 11 hours before she shot people…
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