I think that social media is creating a new kind of medialization — one where you don’t have that intermediary between researchers and the public. Sure, I retweet news articles all the time, but I can also talk to psychologists, doctors, and researchers directly. Now, I wouldn’t consider twitter “a primary source of health information,” but it is…

This is what kills me about mental health research (especially with eating disorders). I ready a study today about the “Effectiveness of day hospital treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.” 83 eating-disordered patients were assessed before and after (a year after) a day hospitalization program. The study boasts “significant improvement on all outcome variables (frequency of binge eating/vomiting/laxative abuse, BMI and core EDI-subscales ‘drive for thinness’ / ‘bulimia’ / ‘body dissatisfaction’), with large effect sizes and improvements that continued even upon long-term follow-up. In conclusion:
The …