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Thomas Insel
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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
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Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications
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The Psychobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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“But the larger point is that people with mental illness are missing out on a century of medical progress that has extended life expectancy for Americans from fifty-five to nearly eighty years. In other words, in terms of life expectancy, these Americans are living in the early 1920s.”
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
“Ubuntu is a South African word that means roughly “I am, because of you.” The concept of ubuntu captures both a personal meaning of connection, manifested by warmth and generosity, and a political meaning, represented by inclusion and equity. President Obama spoke to both meanings at the 2013 memorial for Nelson Mandela. “There is a word in South Africa—ubuntu—a word that captures Mandela’s greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.”
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
“For a psychiatrist who holds the keys to this “kingdom of the sick,” there is rarely comfort about committing a patient to care that they refuse. Yes, the near-term gain is clear, because treatments can control the symptoms and prevent a suicide. But the long-term gain is less clear. The gifted therapist Marsha Linehan, who was one of my advisors at NIMH, used to say that there is nothing worse that hospitalizing a suicidal patient. “When you commit a patient, you are saying they are hopeless. You are saying, ‘I can’t help you.’ A suicidal person does not need a locked unit. He needs a reason to live.”
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
― Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
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