Real Psychiatry

  Warning:  This post is about suicide and the assessment of suicide.  It is intended for mental health professionals and people who not di...

  Karl Marx wrote his famous metaphor about religion being an opiate for the proletariat in 1843: “Religious  suffering is, at one and the...

Inpatient psychiatrists in the United States deal with three problems: suicide risk, aggression risk, and the inability care for ones...

“Did you remember all of that noise I was making in the bathroom?   I was trying to kill myself.” The person I was talking wi...

I am going to keep this post brief and to the point.  This is advice that I routinely discuss with people who tell me that they have s...