Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Insurance 99

Lightwork

JANUARY 16, 2025

Are you lying awake at night, your mind racing with thoughts while sleep feels impossibly out of reach? Many women face the challenging combination of insomnia and anxiety, creating a frustrating cycle that affects daily life and mental well-being. Anxiety can have a significant impact on your sleep patterns.

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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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Zencare

MARCH 10, 2025

Beyond the physical benefits, sports participation is often linked to significant mental health benefits. Regular physical activity improves emotional health, enhances sleep quality, and lowers stress levels. The mental health benefits of sports go even deeper.

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Montana Psychiatry

MARCH 10, 2025

While the beauty of our state, from Billings to Bozeman, is undeniable, its understandable that winters extended gloom can affect your mood and mental health. The days are getting longer, the sun is shining brighter, and with it, you have an opportunity to refresh your mental health.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Anxiety disorders 52

Mad in America

JUNE 14, 2024

This was a mental hospital — my new home. Due to ill health, that was my dad’s last vacation. I went voluntarily so that they didn’t have to section me under the Mental Health Act. In the TV room, we can sleep as much as we like or watch TV. For the first time in my life, my movement was restricted.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

JANUARY 22, 2025

Functional psychiatry represents a transformative shift in mental health care, addressing the root causes of mental health conditions by integrating physical, psychological, and environmental factors. This comprehensive, personalized approach aims to provide long-lasting solutions for mental well-being.

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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.” In October 2019, during Matt’s move to a new apartment, I observed that Matt was emotionally paralyzed, unable to pack from lack of sleep.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse.

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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

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. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This can create stressful situations for families, which is why teen mental health treatment programs offer support, so you dont have to manage it alone. Our specialized team provides premier teen mental health treatment in the Los Angeles, California area. Call today to start healing.

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Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2024

I depended on her expertise to keep me out of crisis, while the medication kept me grounded, sleeping, and helped me forget. Maintain my sleep schedule,” I dutifully wrote down on a worksheet. I began to perceive my experiences within the mental health system and my family unit as trauma. Go see my psychiatrist.

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

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.

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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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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

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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Child Mind Intitute

JANUARY 28, 2025

But did you know that this simple practice of putting pen to paper has decades of scientific backing as a tool for mental health and personal growth? Heres why mental health professionals recommend journaling and what research tells us about its benefits. Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

The doctor gave me an injection and also placed me on Risperdal, which had side effects such as overeating, excessive sleeping, bloating and agitation. After two months with my cousin, I had a terrible episode where I did not sleep throughout the night and felt like going out in the middle of the night.

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Sleep and mental health Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 118

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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Researchers in Australia assigned more than 1,000 young teenagers to one of two classes: either a typical middle-school health class or one that taught a version of a mental-health treatment called dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT. Another, they were told to sleep more, eat right, and exercise.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. Sometimes, we think we’re experiencing deep mental health issues when we’re actually dealing with inflammation, chronic sleep deprivation, or blood sugar fluctuations. That’s false anxiety.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological. The author, Erik Rudi.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Living on his own in San Carlos Hills at just 18, Theos life revolved around maintaining a facade of freedom and success while his addiction and mental health struggles grew unchecked. In recent years, Theo has shifted his focus to deeper levels of self-care, adopting practices like swimming, yoga, and restorative sleep.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 19, 2024

From The New York Times : “Employee mental health services have become a billion-dollar industry. New hires, once they have found the restrooms and enrolled in 401(k) plans, are presented with a panoply of digital wellness solutions, mindfulness seminars, massage classes, resilience workshops, coaching sessions and sleep apps.

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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. I was angry.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. This experience often emerges during the hypnogogic stages as we drift in and out of sleep, as well as periods of deep contemplation or creative inspiration. I grew up in China and immigrated to the U.S.

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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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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

JULY 25, 2024

I had been sent to a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary after my 2 nd violent mugging; I wasn’t eating or sleeping. My mental health went down fast this time. All those symptoms came back and worse until I was unable to get out of my bedroom, stuck in a world of mental terror. We all have innate wellbeing.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

She died the night before, likely in her sleep. But her last message to me was telling me how horrible a place she was in mentally. About nine months before her death, I had gone to a women’s health doctor at a prestigious clinic nearby because I had been struggling with hormonal issues. “Yes, Scheri, she died last night.

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Sleep and mental health 120

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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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It was written by the MISA news team to provide insight into community mental health initiatives in India. A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Kerala is uniquely positioned in the Indian mental health system.

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Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Construction 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. Kelly Brogan , a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, reports significant concerns about brexanolone.

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

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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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Legal 127

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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