Fentanyl is a killer drug in 50% of opioid overdoses.
Fentanyl is 10 times more powerful than heroin. Gets mixed into street heroin and kills users by unintentional overdoses. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
What is the importance of mentalizing in attachment informed psychotherapy?
In psychotherapy, the activity of "mentalizing" is where the most benefit accrues."Mentalizing" is the making sense of things. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. This examining, to which Socrates refers, is what contemporary psychologists call "mentalizing."Mentalizing is intimately linked to self understanding, the understanding of others, a sense of agency, and enhancement of social skills.Mentalizing is a key feature of emotional intelligence which is made up of self knowledge, self regulation, empathy, motivation, and constructive and satisfying interactions with others.In the model of narrative...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
SNAP (Food stamps) works
Congress just cut back on SNAP and instituted work requirements. But what about people who are already working and not making a living wage? America can afford a safety net to maintain people's dignity. We owe it to one another. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 23, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Attachment In Therapeutic Practice by Jeremy Holmes and Arietta Slade
I just finished Attachment In Therapeutic Practice by Jeremy Holmes and Arietta Slade.Attachment In Therapeutic Practice is about attachment theory and how this understanding of human development and behavior can be used in psychotherapeutic practice. Even with 49 years of experience in the mental health field as a Psychiatric Social Worker, I am still learning more every day. Many of the ideas that Holmes and Slade describe I have been familiar with, and their way of connecting the dots is very helpful.A human beings attachment style gets set in the first two years of life and is determined by a number of factors. The pri...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 22, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Coffee is good for you
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is not only safe for most people, it might protect against heart disease or an early death, a new review suggests.The finding, which applies to so-called "moderate" coffee drinking, stems from a review of more than 200 previous studies.For moreclick here.Other studies have found that people who drink moderate amounts of coffee report less depression. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 21, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
People with psychiatric illness more stigmatized by the health care system than by the public at large
Sisti says the stigma around mental health is "systematized" in our health care system, more so than in the public view.Health care providers are "rather leery about these individuals because these people are, often at least according to the stereotype, high-cost patients who maybe are difficult to treat or noncompliant," he says. "I think the stigma that we should be really focused on and worried about actually emerges out of our health care system more than from the public."For moreclick here. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Kinship Care
I see a few families in my private practice where grandparents and aunts and uncles are involved in kinship care. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
New posts on the blogger platform for Markham's Behavioral Health
New posts are now being published on the blogger web site Markham's Behavioral Health. You can access this site by going here www.davidgmarkhamsbehavioralhealth.comPosts will be published daily. Please visit and subscribe.Thank you for your interest in Markham's Behaviorial Health. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
New posts on the blogger platform for Markham's Behavioral Health
New posts are now being published on the blogger web site Markham ' s Behavioral Health. You can access this site by going here www.davidgmarkhamsbehavioralhealth.com (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - October 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Books - Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
What happens when parents suddenly die in a car crash and leave a 17 yr. old son, a 16 yr. old son, a 7 year old daughter and a baby daughter in a rural farming community in Northern Ontario, Canada? (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - July 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Books - Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
What happens when parents suddenly die in a car crash and leave a 17 yr. old son, a 16 yr. old son, a 7 year old daughter and a baby daughter in a rural farming community in Northern Ontario, Canada?Grown up Kate, now in her 20s tells most of the story.It is a narrative full of love, sacrifice, loyalty, persistence, projection, and descriptions of attachment styles that are fascinating.Kate certainly has become avoidant although she had been every attached to her brother, Matt the youngest son. This attachment dynamic is the plat of the book. While Luke the oldest, and Bo the youngest are interesting characters, the primar...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - July 4, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Books - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
There are plenty of slave narratives. Do we need any more? (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - July 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Books - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
There are plenty of slave narratives. Do we need any more?Colson Whitehead's novel, The Underground Railroad, tells the story of a young slave woman, Cora, who escapes the Randall plantation in Georgia with a male companion Caesar and makes her way north and west on a literal underground railroad whose tunnels have been dug by abolitionists committed to undoing the bonds of slavery.The scenes about slave torture and killings are terrible and offset to some extent by the kindness of strangers who help and conduct the slave escapees to freedom.This is a story about the tenacity and perseverance of the human spirit against th...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - July 1, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
