Film Review of “That Summer”: Did the Mold at Grey Gardens Affect Big Edie and Little Edie Beale?
By Lisa Petrison, Ph.D. By early 2007, I had been sick with the disease now officially called “ME/CFS” for more than a decade. I was in bed and…
Psychiatrist Judy Tsafrir, M.D., on Psychological Symptoms Caused by Mold
Psychiatrist Judy Tsafrir, M.D., wrote an article for her blog on her experiences with how deep breathing exercises in a moldy basement led her to become…
Toxic Mold and Suicides in Aboriginal Communities
Aboriginal communities in Canada have recently been experiencing a suicide epidemic among young people, and much of the housing in these areas has particularly concerning mold…
Haunted Houses and Mold
Researchers at Clarkson University in New York are currently doing a study measuring air quality of several buildings where ghost sightings have been reported, to see…
Mold and Psychiatric Symptoms
The neurotoxins made by certain species of mold recently have been recognized in research literature and by practitioners as having the ability to cause or trigger psychiatric…
Brain On Fire: The Role of Toxic Mold in Triggering Psychiatric Symptoms
By Mary Ackerley, M.D. Editor’s Note: Dr. Mary Ackerley is an integrative psychiatrist who recently obtained certification in the Shoemaker Protocol used to treat toxic mold illness.…
The Depression Response
By Erik Johnson and Lisa Petrison From Lisa: It’s long been observed that the illness that the U.S. government historically has chosen to call Chronic Fatigue…