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Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2026
The Christian Conspiracy That Ruined My Childhood (Genetically Modified Skeptic on YouTube)
"The CIA wrote my family's theology."
Thursday, August 13, 2026
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Two leading specialist military papers, the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes, are reporting that there have been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard as poor conditions and mental stresses on the Lincoln reach the breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land – a record for an aircraft carrier in modern times...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment
Saturday, August 8, 2026
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the bulk of the money – $420m – would be used for treatment services for young people in New Mexico. The rest will go toward awareness and prevention, screening services and other costs over the next five years...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
Democrats Demand Answers From VA on Vets’ Struggles for Mental Healthcare — ProPublica
The letter from lawmakers to Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins cites a recent ProPublica investigation that found hundreds of therapists have left the agency and vets often aren’t getting the help they need...
https://www.propublica.org/article/democrats-veterans-affairs-doug-collins-letter-mental-health
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Original Sin and Salvation are a Scam (Jon Cohen - Unconvinced live stream on YouTube)
If humanity is supposedly born broken because two people ate fruit thousands of years ago… and the only escape is accepting the cure offered by the same system that condemned you in the first place…
then maybe we should ask an uncomfortable question:
then maybe we should ask an uncomfortable question:
What if the whole thing functions like a scam?
We’ll be looking at:
We’ll be looking at:
• The logic of original sin
• Why inherited guilt makes no moral sense
• Why “salvation” only works after convincing you you’re doomed
• Fear, shame and obedience in religious systems
• Whether a loving god would design reality this way at all
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Friday, June 26, 2026
Senate Democrats Rally Against Pro-Institutionalization DOJ Memo – Mother Jones
The memo—allegedly Stephen Miller’s passion project—”is taking us back to a time when there were forced lobotomies,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth said...
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Secret Recording Exposes Claims of Toxic Leadership After a Marine’s Suicide – Mother Jones
During an internal investigation after Mobley’s death, a number of his fellow Marines complained about the command climate, accusing leadership of tormenting Mobley after an injury sidelined him from regular duty and ignoring his declining mental health...
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Antifascist Wellness (Conspirituality podcast) Episode 306
Two-thirds of the Conspirituality staff have new books out: Matthew's AntiFascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times and Derek's Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry. Julian "interviews" the co-hosts about themes of each book and their intersections with Conspirituality.
But first, Derek discusses Glucose Goddess's recent partnership with medical device company, Dexcom.
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But first, Derek discusses Glucose Goddess's recent partnership with medical device company, Dexcom.
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Sunday, April 19, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions, says review
But a trade body insisted cannabis did relieve the symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress.
Mike Morgan-Giles, the chief executive of the Cannabis Industry Council, said it was vital that patients with psychiatric conditions could access the treatment they needed.
He added: "Real-world evidence including findings from T21 consistently shows that medical cannabis reduces symptoms for patients with anxiety and post-traumatic stress.
"Regrettably, this latest paper adds more heat than light and does not adequately reflect how clinical prescribing is undertaken in the UK."…
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
"Ex-Gay" Christian Was Taught to Hate Himself Over Vibes | Justin DZ & Sara LeavingFaith (YouTube)
Luke from Minnesota calls in to defend Christianity using intuition and Romans 1, claiming everyone knows God exists but suppresses it. When Justin and Sara challenge his evidence, Luke admits he relies on feelings and that creation "just obviously" points to God.
The conversation takes a darker turn when Luke reveals he's a former gay man who abandoned homosexuality through Christianity. The hosts express compassion while pointing out Luke has been taught to hate himself.
As the discussion continues, Luke admits uncertainty about biblical authority and his pastor's teachings, yet lives by rigid rules based on "Holy Spirit guidance" which Justin dismisses as "just vibes." Sara confronts Luke with characteristics of cult behavior that match his church experience, including claims of special knowledge and distrust of outside information.
The call ends with Sara offering resources for leaving high-control religion and both hosts expressing heartbreak that Luke has been programmed to hate who he is. Throughout, the hosts use Socratic questioning to expose contradictions in Luke's epistemology.
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Friday, February 20, 2026
EmblemHealth Agrees to $2.5 Million Settlement for Failing to Fix Mental Health Provider Directory Errors — ProPublica
"Health insurers cannot mislead consumers with inaccurate provider directories while families are left without care," Letitia James, the state's attorney general, said in a statement...
https://www.propublica.org/article/emblem-health-ghost-network-settlement-mental-health
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time and mental health
Chatterjee, who is involved with campaign organisation Close Screens Open Minds over the proliferation of "ed tech" in schools, believes the legal age for using social media should be 18, as with gambling and access to pornography. "As a society, we have safeguards in place to protect children," Chatterjee says. "At the moment, we are in the middle of a widespread experiment that no one consciously signed up to."…
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
WATCH: RFK Jr. and others launch new addiction and homelessness initiative | PBS News
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will also make faith-based organizations eligible for addiction-related grants and expand states' ability to use federal health funding for substance abuse treatment in certain situations involving children, Kennedy said at an annual "Prevention Day" event for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
Yet the announcements come as the administration's actions so far have created uncertainty, fear and logistical challenges for mental health and substance abuse treatment providers around the country…
Monday, January 26, 2026
Somebody is Watching (with Nita Farahany) (Seth Andrews; The Thinking Atheist)
Professor Nita Farahany of Duke Law is an expert on the implications of new technologies on society, law, ethics, and privacy. We spoke about today's culture of smart tech and surveillance.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Monday, January 19, 2026
Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children (Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic)
As violence has come to surround Russian youth, many seem to have become more violent themselves.
"When the boy, identified by prosecutors as Timofey K., arrived at his school, located outside Moscow, he went to the bathroom to put on his gear, which he’d branded with neo-Nazi symbols and racist slogans. Then he filmed himself patrolling the hallways and asking people, at knifepoint, what nationality they were. Several gave the wrong answer, and Timofey stabbed them. Most survived, but a 10-year-old boy from a Tajik family did not..."
"When the boy, identified by prosecutors as Timofey K., arrived at his school, located outside Moscow, he went to the bathroom to put on his gear, which he’d branded with neo-Nazi symbols and racist slogans. Then he filmed himself patrolling the hallways and asking people, at knifepoint, what nationality they were. Several gave the wrong answer, and Timofey stabbed them. Most survived, but a 10-year-old boy from a Tajik family did not..."
Sunday, January 18, 2026
David P. Barash says "the soul is due for a takedown" | Freethought Radio: In Studio (YouTube)
FFRF Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor sit down with evolutionary biologist and psychologist David P. Barash to tackle one of religion’s most enduring claims: the human soul. Drawing from his book "The Soul Delusion," Barash breaks down what people mean when they talk about souls, why the concept persists, and how science explains consciousness without invoking the supernatural.
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
New York City Employees Suing EmblemHealth After Not Being Able to Access Mental Health Care — ProPublica
The city employees allege that extensive errors in EmblemHealth's directory left them with a "deceptive" and "misleading" impression about the size of the insurer's provider network. The employees were forced to delay care, forgo treatment or seek help from costlier out-of-network providers, said the lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status...
https://www.propublica.org/article/emblemhealth-ghost-network-mental-health-lawsuit-new-york
HHS terminates thousands of grants for substance use, mental health worth billions - POLITICO
"If these programs were so abhorrent to the White House it makes one wonder why the president signed that legislation," Kessler told POLITICO… "Kneecapping and defunding the fight against the opioid and mental health epidemics will not 'Make America Healthy Again,' it will put American lives on the line," said Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the top Democrat in the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees HHS funding, in a statement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/hhs-terminates-grants-substance-use-mental-health-00729433
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