Lightwork

MARCH 13, 2025

The Connection Between Nutrition and Mental Health Your mental health and dietary choices share a powerful bond. Research shows that nutrition plays a crucial role in mental health , directly influencing brain chemistry, emotional well-being, and psychological resilience. Fatty Fish (e.g.,

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. RCTs aim at an external validity that will inform clinical practice. Action on noradrenaline energizes.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The resulting online questionnaire had 47 questions, covering demographics; the prescribing process; information about antidepressant usage and perceptions of their effectiveness; side-effects; benefits; experiences of alternative treatment options; and beliefs about the causes of depression. I put on 27 kg and developed diabetes.’

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Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD.

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

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MAY 13, 2024

LikeWorld Mental Health Day (WMHD), celebrated annuallyon the 10th of October, Mental Health Week has become widely recognised throughout many European countries. The event represents a commitment to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. First, how many hours of sleep did I get the night before? On nights when I had not gotten a lot of sleep, my mania levels did not rise as much as might be expected.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. This period also saw an end to mandatory military conscription, reducing the number of young people exposed to the horrors of war.

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Lightwork

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction LightWork Therapy and Recovery, a leading mental health treatment center in Massachusetts, is at the forefront of providing support for women through specialized mental health treatment. These multifaceted challenges can greatly affect mental well-being, making specialized support for women crucial.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

True, the consequences are more drastic for Anniek and her loved ones with her soon-to-be death than for the prescribers who will have to come to terms with the idea that they were not correctly informed, and thus too often provided patients with incorrect information and did not treat them with enough care.

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 142

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Nor is our reporting on mental health disorders and their treatment, how nature and nurture weave the human fabric, or how language develops. Does observing sleep stages promote progressive views? Is analyzing the effects of stress on health a leftist agenda? Is sleuthing how the brain makes the mind values-laden?

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

I was not ready for this, as I was so exhausted, and I asked her to call back after I had a few hours of sleep. Please, I told her, I need a bit of sleep before I drive her there, as the hospital was some 110 miles away. I also informed Senior Services of my actions. No one would give me any information. She called again.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Legal Aging and mental health 128

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Understanding How Expert Psychiatric Care Supports Mental Health Recovery Mental health recovery is a deeply personal journey, often requiring professional guidance to navigate its complexities. They consider factors like diet, exercise, sleep, stress levels, and family relationships when designing treatment plans.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sleep and mental health Family dynamics Healthcare 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 23, 2024

She was never again able to function at the high level she did before, sleeping a lot at first and then developing insomnia afterward. Mel was drinking more than we knew, and once, when she was drunk and staying with a male friend, I persuaded her to call a local famous mental hospital.

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Mad in America

JUNE 1, 2024

Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant), administrators of 988Lifeline under contract from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has spawned a political lobbying division that’s helping usher state infrastructure investments and legislative initiatives. I wasn’t suicidal.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like.

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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. I started talking fast, coming up with ideas and creative projects and I stopped sleeping. They said if I didn’t go to sleep they would make me. And they did. My world was shattered.

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

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2024

Calling it ‘side effects’ is an astronomical understatement; my experience is that nothing can make you more mentally ill than a psychiatric drug. Ultimately, this fear is amplified by the fact that there is very little useful information out there about safe tapering (a problem I’m now trying to fix, but I’ll get to that).

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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. One year earlier, she had been able to hold down a job; now she kept ending up in the mental wards. We stayed in the observation area of the mental ward. She liked my hair.

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

We were expected to assimilate a massive amount of information and then to regurgitate it during the end of the year exams. The medical profession expressed a global disdain towards these individuals; those diagnosed with a mental health condition were highly stigmatised and considered weak or defective characters. I had a job.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It took time for the drugs to do their worst, and it took time for me to accept that recovery would be an ongoing process (the “infinite game” my husband referred to in his last article ), one that would inform the rest of my life. Had I gotten anyone else, they might have dismissed me as drug-seeking or mentally ill.

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Nutrition and mood Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 114

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

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. And he insisted that the government should ask the National Board of Health to draw up an action plan for autism.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Legal 145

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before. Mental health system providers rarely apologize, so that was meaningful even if only a small thing.

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 130

Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In 2020, the UK mental health charity Mind said it signposted people to street drug charities to help them withdraw from depression pills because of the lack of available alternatives. In November 2019, the Danish National Board of Health issued a guideline about depression pills to family doctors that was dangerous.

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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. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

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

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. I recall hearing my parents fight through the walls as I tried to sleep at night. The next day I approached my mother and asked why they were fighting the night before.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. The patient is often in the best position to help and address their own health problems but patients need knowledge in order to help treat their health problem.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

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. As a result of stopping the Prozac my sleep schedule was destroyed. 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

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to mental health care. For centuries, this dargah had attracted pilgrims from diverse faiths, all drawn by the belief in the shrine’s miraculous powers to cure mental ailments brought on by evil spirits, djinns , and black magic.

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Sleep and mental health Poverty and mental health Hospitality Pharmaceuticals 120

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). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2024

In it, a mental health worker and former long-term patient describes the aspects of treatment and life experiences that helped with recovery, as well as which aspects hindered recovery. ” The importance of psychoeducation is emphasized today in all current treatment recommendations and treatment paths related to mental health.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Both practitioners and health researchers shape the kind of healthcare delivered to patients but, unfortunately, practitioner influence has been substantially greater than the scientific health research influence in shaping clinical practice. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Some early warning signs can include: the lack of ability to be soothed, lack of regular sleep/awake cycles, and serious issues with feeding.Although all children experience these problems from time to time, when these issues become serious or interfere with the childs quality of daily life, it may be time to seek help.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Advocates push for “housing first” as a solution for the homeless to solve their problems, which allows unconditional housing as a right regardless of mental health or addiction status. They will then pile on more drugs and shocks, sometimes without consent, and rarely with fully informed consent.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Healthcare 115

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I gave her my information and she went off. She ended the conversation by telling me that I could ask the staff for more sleeping medication if I needed it and that she’d see me the following day. The role of the psychiatrist should be to assess an individual’s mental state and to determine as the last option that they need medication.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 12, 2024

I hadn’t had a chance to put a bra on yet that day, as I had gone to sleep under the impression that my mother was going to defend me. When I asked the nurse about it, she said it was to help me sleep. Four hours of sleep was pretty normal for me. My mom gave her the contact information for Peggy. White pillow.

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