mark henick ✍🏻

🗣 storyteller
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📖 bestselling author @HarperCollinsCa |
👨🏻‍🎓nerd @JournalismTMU @Cambridge_Uni @KingsIoPPN @EriksonInst @StThomasU

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

Bam! Bam! BAM! 💥 My book is way beyond all the modest stretch goals I set for it already. Everything else is just overflow gratitude now. Think we can get it into the Top 100? https://t.co/RKiMVZVb6f #books #amwriting #mentalhealth

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

A clear priority gives a team permission to focus. When new work arrives, agreeing what moves and who can decide turns a crowded list into a plan people can actually use.

https://t.co/skmkdRrBFM

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@EWTNews The GRIM also says the faithful are “a royal priesthood,” and that “the congregation participates as one body... Unity is expressed through common gestures and posture.” Therefore it seems as though all should in fact do it, healing their division from the priest at the altar.

[Nicolas Badre @BadreNicolas]

Psychiatrists often say: "80% of psych meds are written by PCPs."

The data: PCPs wrote about half (51%) of psychotropic prescriptions in 2022, down from 64% in 2013. It may have been 80% at some point, or in other settings, this is Medicare Part D.

I am not a fan of blaming primary care for overprescribing. In my experience, PCPs (my grandfather was one) tend to follow guidelines and algorithms. In psychiatry, those are generally written by psychiatrists, or based on our work.

If PCPs are doing it wrong, or shouldn't prescribe psychotropics at all, we should say so much more clearly, and explain why.

Ref: Hooker et al., Medical Care 2026

[Dan Alexander @DanAlexander21]

1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.

This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions often go undetected and undiagnosed in cancer patients.

The neglect takes a significant toll, with mortality rates up to 39% higher among cancer patients with depression. https://t.co/kSGSXZ6HzT

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

"Acts of compassion during a period of trauma may last a lifetime in a person’s memory."

Brian Kulp describes the lasting effects of compassion and humour from healthcare professionals during a medical emergency
https://t.co/pgJtutIvi9

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Never approach wildlife. You don't know what it's been through, and it doesn't know what you've been through. Neither of you needs this.

[Nicolas Badre @BadreNicolas]

Reminder: "findings do not support the use of antipsychotic augmentation in patients with treatment-resistant depression."

A 2025 study followed almost 40,000 patients with treatment-resistant depression given an antipsychotic and compared them with matched patients given another antidepressant.

Antipsychotics did not reduce suicide outcomes, though suicide death showed a concerning signal (HR 1.22, 0.91–1.71). All-cause mortality was higher on antipsychotics (HR 1.21, 1.07–1.33).

Ref: 10.1192/bjp.2024.283

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

CNN PROJECTS THAT THE MITOCHONDRIA WILL REMAIN THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

[Sheila Macrine, Ph.D. @MacrinePhD]

Brain scans can’t predict how well you regulate your emotions.
A massive NIDER consortium meta-analysis of 40 fMRI datasets across 2,175 participants challenges a core dogma in affective neuroscience: prefrontal cortex activation levels do not predict cognitive reappraisal success. Findings reveal that brains deploy diverse neural pathways to manage distress, upending decades of assumptions.
https://t.co/puFTJRHH17
#Neuroscience #Psychology #fMRI #BrainImaging #CBT #CognitiveScience #MentalHealth

[Kyle Moore @KyleMooreCB]

WATCH: Big Jim MacLellan, 92, remembered as six-decade pillar of Men of the Deeps

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

After the Second World War, the German theorist Hannah Arendt suggested that totalitarianism takes root in societies where lots of people feel unnecessary or unwanted. In the years after 2016, it was common for the media to report on underemployed people in the Rust Belt who felt that they’d been cast aside. Today, manosphere ideology rages against a society that, allegedly, claims not to need men, and young people wonder whether there’s room for them in an A.I.-saturated workforce. “We have a real need to be needed,” Joshua Rothman writes. “And yet many forces—thinking machines, aging, economic and social dislocation—appear to be making us feel redundant.” Read his latest column: https://t.co/GWzF3ONbmO

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

It’s Weekday Update with your hosts, Colin Toast and Michael ChELMO!

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

RIP Patrick Stewart. What an actor. I still can’t believe he agreed to do this scene. And he didn’t even mind when I ruined every take. Legend.

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund   
https://t.co/luC5CdcWDy
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources    
https://t.co/zvNptfyuNd

Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia

[David Gebala @DavidGebala]

262 days.

It’s been 262 days since you were airlifted to BC Children’s Hospital.
262 days since we were told, “We did everything we could, but we don’t think she’s going to make it through the night.”

Since then, I’ve watched you fight for every single one of those days.

251 days ago, you opened your eye, moved it, and shifted your leg only to be rushed back for emergency surgery that morning when hydrocephalus set in.

238 days ago, you were extubated and breathed on your own for the first time.

230 days ago, you felt the sun on your face again.

224 days ago, the cranioplasty we had planned turned into yet another emergency when an infection was discovered.

214 days ago, your EVD was finally removed.

213 days ago, you sat on the edge of the bed with a little help, and I wrapped my arms around you for the first time since the morning I left for work before any of this began.

191 days ago, the NG tube came out, and I saw your beautiful face completely clear of tubes and tape.

179 days ago, your prosthetic skull was placed. Your fifth surgery, and the one that finally stuck. After that, things slowly began to feel possible again.

145 days ago, you smiled for the first time (intentionally) while we played thumb war.

140 days ago, I wheeled you off hospital grounds for the very first time.

61 days ago, I heard your voice again.

40 days ago, we celebrated your 13th birthday at the Foo Fighters.

And today, today you’re being released.

There was never a day I stopped believing we would get here. The road ahead is still long, but this is a milestone no one thought we would reach. Maya, you are the bravest person I know. You are an inspiration to so many people. Giving up was never an option for me, and it clearly never was for you either. You refused to accept the words we heard 262 days ago when you came out of the OR. Look at you, my girl. You blew every expectation out of the water.

Thank you to the incredible nurses, doctors, and therapists who walked every step of this with us. Thank you to everyone who supported Maya and our family we could not have done this without each and every one of you.

Now it’s time to leave these hospital walls behind and keep moving forward, Maya Bear.
I love you forever and always.

—Dad ❤️

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@FilipJanur if the name doesn't exist why not just make it exist?

[Richard V. Reeves @RichardvReeves]

Imagine that you're someone that struggles with drinking. But you manage to get yourself out of the bar and then the bartender runs after you with another bottle. Rather than cutting you off, they’re actually chasing you down to give you more of the thing you're trying to run away from.

This is effectively what the sports betting companies are doing.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

🛬 Touchdown in Montréal 🇨🇦

Rarely have I looked forward to a Summit this much.

An ocean separates Europe and Canada. Yet we have never felt closer.

We have a new ambition: bringing Canada closer to us than ever before, as Associate Member of the EU.

And we want to take our unique partnership even further.

With an Alliance for the Future, we will stand together and respond to a world of growing rivalries.

Montréal, we’re about to write a new chapter in our shared history.

[LIFE @LIFE]

LIFE returns to print 11.23.26.

Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE here: https://t.co/ixtGWALWfT