Weekend reading: existentialism; nootropics; and sleep
A regular series highlighting a few recent articles relating to mental health.
Tag: medicine
Quack Report: yoni eggs, essential oils, and depression
Gwenyth Paltrow’s so-called wellness business was hit with fines for deceptive marketing of products that she claimed would address depression and other ailments.
First story in a new series on charlatans in the mental health world.
The decolonisation of mental illness?
Why are behaviours like self-harm and hearing voices medicalised in some cultures yet glorified in others? Medical historians may shed light on this issue.
The Patient is MIA
The doctor will see the consumer now. Next client please! This ward is for customers only. Sorry, we’re not taking any new persons with lived experience at the moment. Call me old-fashioned, but whatever happened to the ‘patient’?
