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.

Global mental health 64

Global mental health Aging and mental health Healthcare 64

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.

Pharmaceuticals 142

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Insurance Healthcare 142

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.

Aging and mental health 132

Aging and mental health 132

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.

Aging and mental health 107

Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 107

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.

Aging and mental health 113

Aging and mental health Personality disorders 113

Child Mind Intitute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Clinicians at the Child Mind Institute specializing in conditions that include anxiety, depression, and autism reviewed more than 60 titles that were published in 2024 to compile our inaugural annual list of the best kids’ books for mental health. Its relatable and easy to follow. Published by Magination Press.

Aging and mental health 52

Aging and mental health Resilience and coping Breathing techniques Eating disorders 52

The London Psychiatry Centre

JANUARY 31, 2025

When it comes to mental health, prevention is better than cure. Sometimes the last thing we feel like doing is taking any time out of our hectic days to practice self-care, but it is easier to protect your mental health than to rebuild it after hitting breaking point. Read on for 7 ways to protect your mental health.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Early intervention Aging and mental health 52

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

Aging and mental health 52

Aging and mental health Technology Hospitality 52

Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2024

Thrust into the welcoming arms of the mental health system, “safety” was a portion of my care plan completed by a social worker before I was discharged from my first emergency week-long hold at the psychiatric ward of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Teaching classes was meditative and kept me centered in the present moment.

Sleep and mental health 122

Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 122

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.

Aging and mental health 99

Aging and mental health Resilience and coping 99

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.

Aging and mental health 117

Aging and mental health Hospitality Insurance 117

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.

Trauma and the brain 126

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

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.

Trauma and the brain 141

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 141

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.

Sleep and mental health 145

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Legal 145

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.

Legal 52

Legal Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Technology 52

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.

Self-awareness 108

Self-awareness Aging and mental health Hospitality Breathing techniques 108

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Dual disorders is the term used in the mental health field to refer to those patients who suffer from an addictive disorder and other mental disorders. In the Footsteps of Pedro Ruiz Award This award recognises younger professionals under the age of 45 who have made notable contributions to the field. Author: Prof.

Aging and mental health 83

Aging and mental health Education 83

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

Failure to recognize this perpetuates self-blame for adult children, regardless of age. It cites the “alleged” refrigerator mother of the 1940s as well as the rejecting and overprotective mother “allegedly” causing mental illness from the 1950s-1970s. Not blame; it is simply how nature works. In my experience, every child wants this.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 114

Neurotransmitters and mental health Aging and mental health 114

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.

Genetics and mental health 68

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 68

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this last blog in the series, he presents his concluding thoughts and suggestions for the future of psychiatry. He presented no peer reviewed research and said he didn’t like rules; he just knew what worked. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness.

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Manufacturing Education 142

Mad in America

JUNE 26, 2024

J essica Schleider is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health ( www.schleiderlab.org ). Most recently, she’s the author of Little Treatments, Big Effects: How To Build Meaningful Moments that Can Transform Your Mental Health.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 123

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Aging and mental health Healthcare Eating disorders 123

Anxiety & Depression Association of America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector.

Aging and mental health 52

Aging and mental health 52

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.

Pharmaceuticals 145

Pharmaceuticals Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 145

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.

Insurance 143

Insurance Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 143

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.

Sleep and mental health 110

Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services Aging and mental health 110

Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Most of that was because I’d been adopted at birth, but around age 20 I met my biological mom. CT: Yeah – I drank heavily from age 12 to 20. I found out at a very young age. From age seven to twelve I also got sexually abused. CT: I’d just quit film school. I was on the verge of being evicted.

Insurance 124

Insurance Anxiety disorders Personality disorders 124

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Most of the residents when they arrive present with advanced HIV, low CD4 counts, and often with AIDS. A number of them present with psychiatric diagnoses as well, however it is not clear whether these psychiatric complications are a result of HIV or arise independently. Suraj and Nirmala ben. References Campbell, David.

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I have a friend who once said – having met him in a mental health unit – that everyone there had “schizophrenia” but he didn’t. Surely there should be proper education of the general public starting at a young age, though I can see that the educational material still needs to be carefully created. Yes, probably.

Legal 98

Legal Aging and mental health Education 98

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

At a High Court trial in December 1997, he was found not guilty of the charges by reason of insanity and court ordered to undergo forensic mental health treatment as one of his country’s most high-profile ‘special patients.’ In talking to him, I thought he would back me up and give me a clean bill of mental health.

Hospitality 113

Hospitality Aging and mental health Technology Pharmaceuticals 113

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

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.

Anxiety disorders 52

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

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Children grew up in these settings, learning independence and self-reliance from a young age. This concentration distorts reality itself, creating what can be described as a “compromised reality,” where the priorities of the powerful are presented as universal truths. It also short-changes the natural progress of evolution.

Construction 96

Construction Aging and mental health Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 96

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In that moment, in that mental-ward room alone, I felt I was the helpless target and it was my enemy bent on my destruction. A castaway in the hospital with pneumonia five times from age three months to five years, my only “rescue” was as an infant (presumed to be at d eath’s d oor).

Aging and mental health 114

Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Construction 114

Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. It represents a hybrid mental state on the edge between wakefulness and sleep, where imagination and reality blur. Over the past three years, I have developed a mental wellness practice called Guided Dreaming.

Sleep and mental health 99

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 99

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We all have the potential to be criminal or saint and cannot comfort ourselves by clinging to the hope that the darkness and evil we see is only present in others. In other words, the morbidity, evil and madness within Dostoevsky’s work are not just in ‘the other’.

Self-awareness 135

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 135

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. Children and adolescents use their innate creativity to survive terrible things, including unethical and abusive mental health treatment, and in this case, I was no exception.

Self-awareness 78

Self-awareness Aging and mental health Manufacturing 78

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

Pharmaceuticals 144

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Biopsychosocial model Hospitality 144