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Casey Newton highlights a recent court ruling where a New Mexico judge labeled Meta's platforms a public nuisance. The judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a mental health fund and $374 million in civil penalties.
Ellen Berry reports that Lindsay Clancy pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for the January 2023 strangulation of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy faces life without parole if convicted of first-degree murder.
Assistant District Attorney Shannon Buckingham argues Lindsay Clancy acted intentionally and rationally, planning the killings by checking Apple Maps to calculate her husband's errand time. The prosecution claims Clancy snapped under the pressure of maintaining extreme perfectionist parenting standards.
Ellen Berry reports that Lindsay Clancy was prescribed 13 different medications across multiple drug classes during a four-month period. No single case manager coordinated her care, leaving her various psychiatric providers without access to her complete medical records.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argues that the trial is a referendum on postpartum psychosis. This rare condition affects roughly one to two out of every one thousand births but remains excluded from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Forensic experts Phil Resnick and Paul Zeisel testified that Lindsay Clancy suffered from command hallucinations. Clancy claims a voice told her to kill her children to save them, leaving her feeling like a puppet with someone else pulling the strings.
Ellen Berry observes that the trial catalyzed a massive public response, drawing hundreds of women with personal experiences of postpartum struggles to the courthouse. An online organizer mobilized a demonstration of up to 400 women wearing pink.
Advocates are pushing the American Psychiatric Association to add a dedicated chapter on postpartum disorders to the DSM. Other reform efforts include state laws mitigating punishments for postpartum mothers and creating specialized joint hospitalization units for mothers and infants.
Meta agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 29 US states over allegations that its platforms harmed teens. Alice Fullwood outlines new restrictions, including a two-hour daily limit and notification blocks during school and night hours.
Meta reached a landmark multi-billion dollar settlement with nearly every U.S. state over claims that Instagram and Facebook are designed to be addictive. Cecilia Kong reports the agreement introduces sweeping restrictions on how teenagers use these products.
The settlement mandates a daily two-hour app limit for teenage users and blocks usage entirely between midnight and 6 a.m. Additionally, teenagers will not receive push notifications between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Under the settlement terms, Meta must disable public like counts by default for teenage accounts to curb social comparison anxiety. The agreement also bans beauty filters that alter physical appearance.
Chris Palmer reversed his own metabolic syndrome, including pre-diabetes and high blood pressure, within three months by switching to an Atkins diet. The dietary change also resolved his chronic sleep and mood issues.
Palmer used a ketogenic diet to reverse daily auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions in a patient with treatment-resistant schizoaffective disorder. The patient lost 160 pounds and achieved independent living after failing 17 prior psychiatric medications.
Palmer targets specific blood ketone ranges based on diagnostic severity. He recommends reaching at least 0.8 millimoles for depression and exceeding 1.5 millimoles for psychotic and bipolar disorders to achieve therapeutic brain benefits.
Mild carbohydrate restriction can alleviate subclinical mental health symptoms like burnout and anxiety without requiring strict ketosis. Palmer notes a vegetarian colleague resolved chronic anxiety within three weeks solely by removing high-carbohydrate foods from their diet.
Kanika Batra discusses her dual diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. Batra claims that a brain scan revealed an inactive amygdala, which she associates with her lack of fear, anxiety, and affective empathy.
Kanika Batra distinguishes primary Factor 1 psychopathy from Factor 2 psychopathy based on anxiety levels and impulsivity. Batra classifies herself as Factor 1, defining it as a cold, planning-oriented state, whereas Factor 2 involves high anxiety and chaotic, violent behavior.
Kanika Batra traces her behavioral issues to childhood, experiencing domestic violence and developing conduct disorder. Batra reports physically harming other children, including pushing a classmate down stairs and setting fires during her teenage years.
Following a suicide attempt, Kanika Batra spent months in forensic evaluation. Batra states her psychiatrist inadvertently provided a blueprint of human behavior, which she weaponized to mimic appropriate emotional responses like crying on command.
Kanika Batra describes her emotional experience as skewed toward anger, rage, and contempt, with positive feelings being fleeting. Batra characterizes her depressive states not as profound sadness, but as a completely flat feeling of empty time.
Kanika Batra admits to experiencing a sense of thrill and adrenaline from sadism and emotional manipulation. Batra describes feeling satisfaction when partners plead for closure or cry, viewing emotional distress in others as a source of personal power.
Venture-backed companies priced on inflated 2021 multiples are facing dramatic haircuts. Mental health platform Headspace was reportedly acquired for 200 million to 300 million dollars in cash, representing a 90 percent drop from its peak 3 billion dollar valuation.
To manage her drafts, Jennifer Egan utilizes a color-coded timeline and character sheet that stretches back to 1890. She explicitly color-codes edits as "needs rethinking" in red to avoid self-abusive critique language like "boring" or "terrible."
Jennifer Egan's brother suffered from schizophrenia and alcoholism before dying by suicide nine years ago. Jennifer Egan notes that general public and medical awareness of psychosis during the 1990s was significantly worse than it is today, which delayed his diagnosis.
Philippine call center workers face increased stress as companies use AI to monitor performance and increase quotas. Kyle, a Manila call center worker, explains that automated tools now analyze call quality to flag workers for potential termination.
Daisy Fancourt observed that playing music on dementia wards allowed patients who could not recognize their own relatives to sing lyrics word-perfectly.
Daisy Fancourt explains that scary or sad art provides aesthetic distance, allowing the brain to safely rehearse emotional regulation. Colton Scriffner's research suggests that watching horror movies functions as a form of exposure therapy to manage real-life fear.
A US study demonstrated that individuals given creative freedom to draw or write expressively regulated induced negative emotions faster than those instructed to copy shapes or solve puzzles.
Daisy Fancourt's clinical studies in cancer hospitals show that group singing physiologically lowers stress hormones and reduces immune system inflammation. These chemical changes help alleviate depressive symptoms and rebuild self-esteem damaged by treatment.