Mental Illness ⁽⁵⁾

People’s Medical Publishing House has produced a set of “national higher-education organ-system integrated textbooks” for clinical-medicine students. It is an excellent set; used together with the classic clinical-medicine textbooks (now in their tenth edition), it greatly benefits clinical-medicine students. I have gradually bought nearly the…

Recently, the National Medical Products Administration issued an announcement (No. 120 of 2025) on revising the package inserts for montelukast preparations, requiring that warning language be added to the inserts of all montelukast formulations, alerting that montelukast carries a risk of inducing depression, self-harm, and…

"Baijin Wan" (White-Metal Pill) was first recorded in the Song-dynasty physician Xu Shwei's Puji Benshi Fang (Effective Formulas from Universal Aid), which states: "For mania-depression arising from melancholy, with phlegm-saliva blocking the pericardium and the orifices of the heart: 3 liang of alum (baifan), 7…

I am full of polar opposites: despair and hope, love and hate, coldness and warmth, stillness and motion, inferiority and confidence — too many to list. It is like the drop of a bungee jump, switching freely from one mode to another. I am a…

On Wednesday evening my students came to visit me. One of them had just been admitted to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. I gave her three books: "I Myself, My Brain," "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders," and "The Psychiatrist's Handbook," and asked her to…