World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

This competition provides medical students worldwide with a platform to share their insights and innovative solutions on key mental health challenges. This years competition focuses on the crucial theme of Reducing Inequalities and Promoting Inclusion to Improve Mental Health.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Onthe 10thofOctober(Thursday), the global community unites once again to celebrate World Mental Health Day (WMHD), an initiative organised by the World Federation for Mental Health(WFMH)and endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Find more details and registration information here.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 8, 2024

CDC, Suicide Prevention Resource Center, National Council on Aging). The highest overall rate was for males aged 75+. In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, “helping” communities. Your informal support network may include biological family members, close friends, peers (e.g.,

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Mad in America

APRIL 13, 2024

O n the footpath, in a group of homeless people, sits a middle-aged saree-clad woman in absolute silence, looking nowhere. She was brought in along with a salwar-kameez wearing middle-aged woman. When asked her age, Lata said that she was 3 years old. and then recorded her age as 40 years.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” A few weeks later, Matt’s wife informed me that his personality had changed drastically, sometimes sobbing for hours since he began the antidepressants.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The studys results indicate the following impacts of various types of exercise on children with ADHD: Cognitive-aerobic exercise demonstrates the most significant effect on working memory, or the capacity for holding and using information over a short period of time. Mind-Body Exercise for Working Memory Mind-body exercises (e.g.,

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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.’ The two other papers addressed ‘How important are informed consent, informed choice, and patient-doctor relationships, when prescribing antipsychotic medication?’

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. The researchers recruited the 900 service users using the Carelon Research Healthcare Integrated Research Database, an administrative claims database for health outcome research.

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2024

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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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. I gave her my information and she went off. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

A recent article published in the Health Expectations journal reveals that discontinuing the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI withdrawal) has an impact on the emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of the lives of users, in addition to causing physical withdrawal symptoms.

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Aging and mental health 132

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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Credible Mind

JANUARY 29, 2025

Rethink Mental Health Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools Customized mental wellbeing platform to be integrated and offered community wide to boost health equity, promote early intervention, and streamline care access SAUSALITO, Calif.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I propose in this essay to question the pre-eminence of psychiatric opinion, the accepted notion that psychiatric clinical experience is the benchmark of valid mental health symptoms, and suggest a pathway towards lasting and effective treatment.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Children are being given psychiatric drugs at younger and younger ages, including powerful antipsychotics, and being treated for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless. I asked another employee what was wrong and the response was shes mentally ill. It was always assumed to be the childs supposed mental illness.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

In order to get more detailed information your doctor may ask you more structured questions and you may be given a form that asks you specific questions about your child. The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Development Disorders of Infant and Early Childhood (DC:0-3R). appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. Starting at the age of five I can remember being fearful of her. I became a yoga teacher while working in recruiting and aspired to move my career towards health and wellness.

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Lawyers with Depression

JULY 22, 2024

This relentless pace and pressure can take a significant toll on attorneys’ mental and physical health, making it a profession where the risk of substance abuse is notably high. The prevalence of such problems is not limited to any specific age group. Lawyers have to hustle and compete for clients and recognition.

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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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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age. He described it carefully.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This database includes information on diagnoses, prescriptions, lab results, healthcare contacts, and referrals. The average age of the included service users was 82.1 Service users prescribed antipsychotics were more likely to have a history of serious mental illness, as well as prescriptions for antidepressants and benzodiazepines.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2025

P sychosocial factors play a crucial role in our mental health, often stemming from subconscious memories related to complex early life experiences, necessitating personalized interventions. Dreaming is a universal yet underutilized mental health resource.

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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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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 23, 2024

This conversation is part of the Child Mind Institutes webinar series on Technology and Youth Mental Health , which asks how tech might be used to improve mental health outcomes for all young people. The series is made possible by our partner and funder, the State of California’s Department of Health Care Services.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. 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. Are Drugs the Answer?

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Buck, who lived to the age of 102, fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform. Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Y ouths are facing a mental health crisis. America has a track record of stigmatizing mental health struggles, particularly the mental health struggles of students with historically marginalized identities. But in today’s overly paternalistic culture, schools take away opportunities for self-growth.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor. I built a new support system.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

But I was doing my best to love and assist my aging mother with whatever aid I could find, and I had to take this seriously. I also informed Senior Services of my actions. I told them I had a POA health directive for her, and I’d be there in the morning. No one would give me any information. Just chaos.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects , interviews her mother, Dee Barbash, to discuss the circumstances that led to Brooke being prescribed a cocktail of antidepressants at the age of 15. Siem: Do you recall any level of informed consent?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We see the same lies, denial and misleading information about psychiatry everywhere, 7 as illustrated so convincingly in Whitaker’s review of Insel’s book. In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. 7 These people are highly effective drug pushers.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 13, 2025

Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Ghislettas research used samples from the Berlin Aging Study, which started collecting data shortly before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 (Baltes & Mayer, 1999). Aging Research is showing that aging equals anything but cognitive decline and unhappiness.

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