This is a hot take: no one was guilty of mal-practice. Did she have Bipolar? Why do we think she was Bipolar? Because she was restless, 'agitated', and not sleeping? Bipolar is defined as hypomanic or manic episodes. Labeling restless patients as bipolar is exactly what leads to over-diagnosis and inappropriate medication. I actually do not see any evidence that she was genuinely bipolar. The forensic psychiatrist may have said so, but why? Because she killed her kids

I actually find it a bit offensive to suggest that ADHD is anything but a psychiatric disorder. Many people will say: "Look, I have empathy for people who have mental health problems but I am not one of them! Don't put me in that category! After all, ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, therefore due to its biological origins it is not a mental disorder." This of course makes absolutely no sense and is woefully ignorant of what a psychiatric disorder is in the first pl

A question from a friend came to me the other day. The question was that of faith. A religious intellectual, he was struggling to explain the "why" of God to his 12 year old son. He used many sound and logical arguments and even scientific explanation although I am sure a well armed athiest could have debated all of his points. I have said it many times before. One of the great cognitive distortions of modern thinking is that of "intellectualization". Intellectualizati