Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Key findings from the most recent America’s Children in Brief report: Teen Substance Use In OctoberDecember 2020, about 46% of adolescents ages 1217 who used illicit drugs in the past year perceived that they were using those substances “a little less or much less” than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ tapering strips, liquid, smaller dose tablets) to ensure gradual reduction’ (88%) and ‘A health professional providing a personalised, flexible reduction plan’ (79%). there are two very reasonable concerns.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

Diana Rodriguez in Bagram, Afghanistan, 2012 The scene above played out in October 2022 at my family’s home just outside of Fort Liberty, North Carolina where I’d been stationed in the Army years earlier. My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. I built a new support system.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 126

Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

According to the World Health Organization, social determinants of health are “Nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. Compton, MD, MPH and Ruth S.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

A number of mental health approaches like Soteria, Diabasis, Open Dialogue and various others operate on what has become known as the Wellness principle. Both can also be found in one form or another in many ancient spiritual practices but are invariably lacking or not present at all in the biomedical approach to mental health.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. They divorced once my mother found out he had been cheating with a woman half his age. At the age of 14, I found myself in an abusive relationship with a boy a year older than me.

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. Herbal medicine, eclectic medicine, and homeopathic medicine were some of the pre-1850 approaches to health that, whatever faults they might have had, did not encourage practitioners to bleed their patients to death or poison them with mercury.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

of children under age 18 in the U.S. do not have health insurance coverage. of children (approximately 26,000) did not have health insurance coverage as of 2019 ( visit the CT Health Foundation’s website to learn more about who is uninsured in CT). Read a summary of the mental health parity law here.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market. She is also an award-winning chef and Food Network Chopped Champion.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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Sanity Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Losing human connection in digital age Have you ever ended your day feeling inexplicably exhausted, even when you didnt physically exert yourself? Turning off notifications doesnt turn off the mental load of staying available. Youre not alone. At work, we spend hours glued to our computer.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

million (as of school year 2020-21) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities, including behavioral health disabilities. Children and youth ages 3 through 21 receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B. Department of Education’s 2022 Annual Report to Congress ) In 2020, 9.7%

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance abuse is one of the most critical public health crises in the United States, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The Impact of Substance Abuse Substance abuse takes a significant toll on your physical and mental health.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. In the age of the internet and social media, there are other numbers of ways. In 2022, drug and device makers paid 20 billion Australian dollars to U.S.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

After a few sessions, Marit began to tell about her contact with angels, something that came to her at a young age spontaneously. Glossary Transpersonal theory highlights that we are more than our person, that there is a spiritual/spiritual dimension in existence and man (Cunningham, 2022). Despair would have consumed me” (p.

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Real Psychiatry

JANUARY 26, 2025

In their analysis the independent variable was SSRI use and they examined biological sex, mental health problems, intensity of romantic love, obsessive thinking, commitment, and frequency of sex as the dependent variables. Their demographic of young college age students may have been limiting. September 26, 2022.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 13, 2024

Since she was once deemed too “mentally ill” to run her own life, it’s a civil- and disability-rights landmark that the Grammy-winning performer is finally willing and able to share her side of the story. Britney was to announce she was taking a break to tend to her father (who had in fact been seriously ill) and her own mental health.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

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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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 132

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Boundary-crossing relationships were commonplace as these pioneers saw themselves as cultural revolutionaries existing outside of social and legal norms and fueled by the magical powers of psychedelics as they ushered in a spiritual New Age. Ingrasci never expressed any public remorse or accountability for his violations.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2025

closure of public institutions for individuals with serious mental illness) took place, as well as the rise of psychopharmacology after the 1980 DSM III update. Meanwhile, according to ProPublica, the former CEO of NASW, Dr. Anthony McClain, made $458,334 in 2022. During this market-driven transition, deinstitutionalization (i.e.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They had tortured me for four years, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, first because they suffered under the delusion that my homosexuality was a mental illness, and then by their certainty that my schizophrenia, which they had created, was incurable. ” Where is one better off than with ones family? Anywhere else.

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health officials are attacked for providing the best possible public health advice just because some politicians dont like it or need to cover their own incompetence. Threats alone can significantly affect your sense of physical and mental well-being. Am J Public Health. 2022 May;112(5):728-730.

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