The recent high profile mass shootings by improperly treated individuals with psychiatric disorders highlights the nationwide problem of the lack of availability of quality psychiatric care. In a land of tolerance and plenty, how can this happen? The answer is layered, yet simple. In the 60’s it was felt Psychiatric Hospitals were “warehousing” patients and...
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As we all are still reeling from the reports of yet another mass killing – involving school age children! – the frequency of these events becomes undeniable. Why now? And why is each one worse? What are the causes? Shooters fall into three psychiatric categories of hardened psychopaths, psychotic delusional persons, or the suicidally depressed....
The NFL is a violent game, played by oversized men aimed at hitting and physically dominating one another. But does it predispose individuals to violence off the field? The recent murder/suicide by a Kansas City linebacker has brought this question back to the forefront. Does this lifestyle make young men violent? All of us have...
Anyone who has had a family member in intensive care can speak to the enormous stress it puts on individuals and families. The fears, the hours of long vigil, and the attempt to support the ill family member, and one another, takes it’s toll. A new study documents the stress on family and even coined...
The recent CIA sex scandal has brought to light again how easy it is for men in power to succumb to career ending affairs. The number of lives changed by these two women is mind boggling, leading one newscaster to ask, “What do these women smell like!”. Of course, power always draws attention of the...
A recent longitudinal study has found adults who experienced significant abuse and neglect as children have a three times more likely risk for stroke as adults. The study involved 258 individuals who donated their brains for autopsy post death. No causality was speculated. How could this occur? These strokes were not from physical trauma or...
Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace is nothing short of shocking. How could the revered figure go from idolized role model to millions to disgraced cheater so quickly? And what drove him to do this in the first place? Armstrong is a lifelong competitor willing to do whatever is necessary to win. All bikers doped during...
A scandal was revealed recently when it was found that there was wide scale cheating in a salt water fishing contest where contestants were found using objects, and even smaller fish, to increase their weight totals, by stuffing them inside their catches. This follows numerous incidents of frozen fish and fish full of lead weights...
What’s Wrong With My Family?, And How to Have Your Best Life Anyway, has been completed and sent on to the publisher for printing and e-book conversion. This book was co-authored with my sister, Susan Mary Malone, and describes not only how families are suppose to work, but what goes wrong, and how it psychologically...
A recent study has shown that normal controls can be differentiated from people with Schizophrenia with a 98% accuracy. This involves a simple eye screening exam that takes a minimal of equipment and expertise. The initial study involved 180 individuals and was done in Scotland. A larger scale, more definitive study is in the works,...