What topics should we cover? What features should we add?

[making_art]

Thank you! I will do my best to find articles as requested.

[wheelchairdemon]

Looking for suggestions and topics, serious topics or fun stuff, you would like to see us cover or cover more at Psychlinks Forum.

In a similar vein, are there topics/forums you think could or should be deleted? or two or more topics that could be merged or combined?

What features should we add?

What would make this forum more interesting or helpful for you?

Help us brainstorm on ways to continue our forum makeover.

Please reply here or, if you prefer, via private messaging.

How about stigma and the impact it has on healthcare?


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[David Baxter]

How about stigma and the impact it has on healthcare?


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Already exists: Attitudes, Myths, Stigma, and Raising Awareness

[blinded]

A simple chemical imbalance forum. I know I have it but, I don't know where it sits. I am prone to depression, the pills help. I could be bipolar. Or it may be a result of the people I have in my life. There are bad vibes around me. It's hard on the head.

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Would you consider paring down the size of the Forum, to narrow its focus to, say, healthy lifestyle discussions, rather on the current focus on the various pathologies and disorders.

The current content could be made available as a "second tier" read only resource for people wishing to investigate further, or as an experiment, kept offline for a while, during which time, a new, improved, refreshed and simpler version of Psychlinks could feature discussions on positive lifestyle strategies.

My reasoning is to try to appeal to the tastes of today's internet market that tends to look for simplicity and ease of navigation.

Simplicity is key.

[David Baxter]

The term "chemical imbalance" is vague and ambiguous at best and, although it is a way of understanding some mental health conditions and why certain medications help those conditions, it is not well supported by evidence.

The fact that certain conditions are correlated with a reduction in certain brain chemicals and that medications which seem to increase those chemicals helps to manage those conditions may tell us that lower amounts of those brain chemicals are correlated with a diagnosis but they do not tell us whether that is the cause of a condition. It may be the other way 'round; it may be that having the mental health condition causes a reduction in certain brain chemicals.

In reality, it is a lot more complicated than a simple "brain chemistry" theory suggests.

And ultimately it is more important to understand the major symptoms of a mental health condition and to know what can help to manage that condition.

[blinded]

So it's not so simple. Thanks for your reply.