DBSA President Sue Bergeson's Mental Health Blog

About 75% of individuals with serious mental illness are tobacco dependent, compared to approximately 22% of the general population.1,2 In fact, about 44% of all the cigarettes consumed in the U.S. are by individuals with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder.3 Those with psychiatric di...

Last month, I got a call from the Associated Press (AP) asking for comments about a study on SSRIs that had just been released in the New England Journal of Medicine. In short, the study focused on clinical trials involving more than 12,000 consumers and 12 different SSRIs. The study showed that ...

Earlier this year, the DBSA staff was lucky enough to spend some serious time with Dr. John Rush, the primary investigator for the STAR*D research. If you need a refresher on what STAR*D is all about, there's a reasonable overview on the NIMH website. And one of the best sources of conversati...

Do you have a mental heath hero? I have a couple of them.   Pat Deegan, PhD, is one of my heroes. Check out her thought-provoking recovery journal on her website, at www.patdeegan.com. And read her story about the sea rose-it is so gorgeous, it just about makes me weep.   Another o...