Mind You Reflections on mental illness, mental health and life

By Dr. David Laing Dawson

Trump has signed an executive order intended to shorten the time between sentencing and execution in Federal Capital Punishment cases. And to facilitate this, the order allows use of f...

By Marvin Ross

Schizophrenia is a chronic life time disease that requires a combination of treatments, including medication, psychological counseling and social support. The foundation of treatment is medication of which there are numerous types but it also requires psychosocial treatments which are essential. These treatments are not given instead of medication...

The Family Alliance for Severe Mental Illnesses (FASMI) has created a survey to determine how well hospitals and mental health professionals co-operate with families. Anecdotally, it has been observed that they are reluctant to talk to families based on the belief they are protecting their patient’s privacy. In most cases, it is the family, who provide the most support financ...

By Dr. David Laing Dawson

There is some confusion about the origins of the phrase: “a useful idiot”. It has been attributed to Lenin but it was used before that in Italian politics.

Whatever the origin, it occurred to m...

By Marvin Ross

The photo above is of fully armed tactical officers from the Toronto Police Service guarding Jews attending the first night of Passover Services at an historic synagogue in Toronto. Most synagogues and Jewish inst...