I'm both ecstatic and heartbroken at the same time
So proud of my lab @StanfordMMHIP for publishing our first study on suicide and US Muslims in top tier @JAMANetwork
Yet heartbroken over our findings that suicide attempts in US Muslims are TWICE other faith/non-faith groups
Our study was the result of an excellent collab between @StanfordMMHIP Lab @TheISPU and the Institute of Muslim Mental Health
There are very few studies on #Muslims and #suicide. Ours is the FIRST in top tier @JAMAPsych and of the first in the field
Years prior to this picture (IAIP Conf '18) I had come across Abu Zayd al-Balkhi's original manuscript and written to Dr. Malik Badri about my findings comparing Balkhi's 9th C work to DSM-5
He wrote back encouraging me to publish in mainstream medical peer reviewed journals 1/
With Dr.Malik Badri in the front row, I presented how Balkhi (9th C) may have been the first in history to correctly classify, diagnose and propose functional treatments for #OCD and #phobia an entire MILLENNIUM before the European psychologists credited with both discoveries 2/