Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This stark difference isn’t just a statistical anomalyit reflects complex biological, social, and cultural factors that shape women’s mental health experiences. You’ll discover how biological factors, cultural influences, and age-related challenges contribute to anxiety in women.

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Anxiety disorders Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 52

Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects an individual’s perception of reality. Understanding Psychosis Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and behave. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking.

Bipolar disorder 52

Bipolar disorder Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Early intervention 52

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]

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Insurance 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Children grew up in these settings, learning independence and self-reliance from a young age. Healthcare becomes a commodity, as do the patients themselves. At the same time, mental health professionals are as powerless as anyone else to change the dysfunctional systems.

Construction 96

Construction Aging and mental health Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 96

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I detail Mom’s full story in this blog post , and I relate both of our stories in my memoir Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. Kelly Brogan , a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, reports significant concerns about brexanolone.

Sleep and mental health 115

Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Insurance 115

Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. It appears that what is often left out in care for patients in the mental health system is the care for the entire family unit. How has this impacted you and your health?

Autism spectrum 114

Autism spectrum Aging and mental health Hospitality Bipolar disorder 114

Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: This also applies to what is now called “mental illness.” Theodoric commented on all the progress Medicine had made by 1303 A.D.,

Aging and mental health 106

Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Education 106

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

Ameliorating factors like oxidative stress, neuro-inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction with such interventions may have ‘neuroprotective’ effects, as well more general health benefits. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function.

Early intervention 118

Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 118

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. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare.

Healthcare 90

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

Mad in America

JANUARY 23, 2024

O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required. When is someone impaired in functioning?

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Aging and mental health Construction Hospitality Healthcare 122

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

Resilience and coping 128

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 128

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).

Aging and mental health 121

Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Legal 121

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

Manufacturing 139

Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 139

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. After opening my private practice, one of my specialties was perinatal mental health, supporting women during pregnancy and postpartum.

Trauma and the brain 122

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health 122

Mad in America

MARCH 16, 2024

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.

Aging and mental health 119

Aging and mental health Healthcare Technology Global mental health 119

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. I sit with a group of men who serve long-term sentences for violent crimes.

Technology 98

Technology Education Healthcare Hospitality 98

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. During this market-driven transition, deinstitutionalization (i.e. They seem to have been onto something.

Poverty and mental health 111

Poverty and mental health Social Services Nonprofits Aging and mental health 111