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Almost three quarters of adolescents experience depression or anxiety

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Almost three quarters of adolescents in Australia experience clinically significant depression or anxiety symptoms, with most being chronic, according to a new study. And preventive strategies outside our clinics are urgently required to address this considerable public health problem facing the nation.

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Florida’s mental health initiatives for veterans and military families

Harmony United Psychiatric Care

A whooping million and half veterans call Florida home, which makes it the third highest concentration of military veterans in the nation. The sacrifices done by military personal and their families are enormous. Recognizing this, the government has put to motion a broad range of mental health initiatives.

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TIFT #115: Of Time and the Inner Mind

How Psychiatry Works

One of my major goals is to promote familiarity with and appreciation of the inner self that has a huge role in ours and our clients' daily lives. It is the source of our truest motivations and most authentic feelings. Today I’ll talk, mostly from experience, about how the inner mind evolves in its relationship with the dimension of time. But first, a bit more about the concepts of mind and the inner self.

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Rotterdam – Did You Know #1

International Council of Psychologists (ICP)

Did You Know #1: Meet Erasmus

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TIFT #116: Talking to Adult ADHD

How Psychiatry Works

This post is built on what I often say to adult clients with ADHD. ADHD has advantages as well as challenges We start by countering the negatives about ADHD. This form of neurodiversity comes with definite advantages along with the challenges. The main positives are creativity, hyperfocus, meaning the ability to focus intently on one thing, and the ability to handle situations of high stress effectively.

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Teens with a reduced response to rewards are more susceptible to depression

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Novel research shows that a reduced neural response to receiving rewards in teens predicts the first onset of depression, but not anxiety or suicidality. This is independent of pre-existing depressive or anxiety symptoms, as well as age or sex, which are already strong risk factors for depression. The study is a step toward using brain science to understand and assess mental health risks.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

Mad in America

T he minute I first set foot on European soil in June 1968 I felt better. I felt better about myself, about life and about the world. I was overcome with the joyful certainty that American psychiatrists would never be able to find me on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. 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