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Investing in our mental health: Priorities for the NHS ten-year plan

Centre for Mental Health

The nations mental health is getting worse, with an especially significant increase in levels of distress among children and young people over recent years. The health and social costs of maternal depression, anxiety, and psychosis were estimated to carry long-term economic and social costs of approximately 8.1

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ANMH Commends us surgeon general’s Advisory on youth mental health Crisis

ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

Washington, DC ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH), a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to mental health services and supports, fighting mental and behavioral health stigma, and enhancing health equity, commends the U.S.

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Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild

Mad in America

Situating Greenspace and Mental Health What do redwoods, snowdrops, and grassknots have to do with mental health? In sum, I wanted to see what the scholarship and decision-makers had to say, at that point, about greenspace and mental health.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

Mad in America

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.