Mad in America
MARCH 8, 2025
T he Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960. Her findings, which told of remarkable good outcomes for the majority of the patients in her study, belied conventional beliefs that few people diagnosed with schizophrenia ever recovered.
NPR - Mental Health
MARCH 10, 2025
At First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, a therapist was fielding 10 calls a week from parents of teens who needed mental health help. Now the church is part of a national pilot intervention and study to address suicide risk among Black teens. (Image credit: Jos A. Alvarado Jr.
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The New York Times -- Mental Health
MARCH 12, 2025
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.
The Online Therapist
MARCH 9, 2025
There is a notable shift towards more flexible, less traditional interpersonal dynamics, in which people value personal fulfillment over society standards. Today's relationships are more adaptable, digital, and self-centered, emphasizing personal development and emotional freedom above strict structures. These shifts represent a deeper shift in how individuals see love, intimacy, and commitment in the modern era.
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
MARCH 5, 2025
Group arts interventions, such as painting, dance, or music, significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in older adults, offering a powerful alternative to traditional treatments. The benefits are universal, with consistent results across different art forms, intervention types, and countries. Group arts interventions were particularly beneficial for care home residents relative to older adults who lived in the community.
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 11, 2025
Today marks 5 years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. These are the psychiatric impacts.
Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
W elcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and Im the author of May Cause Side Effects. Today, Im here with Rick Fee, president of the Richard Fee Foundation. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio of the interview here. Brooke Siem: Were going to get straight into it because neither of us have letters after our names.
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The New York Times -- Mental Health
MARCH 5, 2025
The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth.
The Online Therapist
MARCH 4, 2025
Join me for a live Q&A where well dive into all things codependency, relationships, and breaking free from destructive habits. Whether you're just starting to recognize unhealthy patterns or deep into your healing journey, this session is for you. Struggling with a romantic partner, family dynamics, or friendships? Bring your questionsthis is your space to ask, learn, and grow.
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
MARCH 10, 2025
A novel analysis of more than 375 published studies concluded that the association between chronic pain and rates of depression and anxiety is staggering. The study found that 40% of adults with chronic pain experienced 'clinically significant depression and anxiety.' Among those most at risk, the analysis showed, were women, younger adults and people with fibromyalgia.
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 6, 2025
The impacts of this pandemic continue to ripple. All we can do is try our best to stay informed. Thats where we come in.
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. This is in contrast with the typical chronological history of who served as superintendent, for how long, the date new buildings were opened and other such changes. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.
NPR - Mental Health
MARCH 3, 2025
People who work for the federal court system don't have the same kinds of job protections that most other Americans do. A nearly year-long NPR investigation has found problems with the way the courts police sexual harassment and bullying.and a pervasive culture of fear about blowing the whistle. A warning to our listeners, this piece contains a description of sexual assault.
Critical Psychiatry
MARCH 1, 2025
Psychological problems are common. People don't always adjust to difficulties in life and relationships very well. They don't always meet their own or others' expectations of how they should function socially. Solutions on offer to psychological problems from mental health services, such as psychotropic medication and talking therapy, may, therefore, seem attractive.
History Psychiatry
MARCH 12, 2025
March 20-21, UC Berkeley, in-person & live streamed Co-organized by Hannah Zeavin & Ramsey McGlazer Full program below. Registration required,… Read more “A Return to Freud?
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
MARCH 3, 2025
Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause stress and anxiety -- not only in humans, but these stories can also affect AI language models, such as ChatGPT. Researchers have now shown that these models, like humans, respond to therapy: an elevated 'anxiety level' in GPT-4 can be 'calmed down' using mindfulness-based relaxation techniques.
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 10, 2025
A new trial is testing a first-of-its-kind stem cell therapy for Parkinson disease, using a patients own reprogrammed cells to restore lost dopamine function.
Mad in America
MARCH 13, 2025
T oday I’m going to tell you a story, or I’m going to tell you at least a part of it. I have to say that it’s not easy writing or talking about this because it is a story that has to do with shame, and especially my shame, shame for things that I did, believing that they were the so-called right thing. But what matters is that it’s a story.
NPR - Mental Health
MARCH 11, 2025
The Department of Veterans Affairs is forecasting tens of thousands of job cuts in the near future. Patients at the VA say the threat to their care is damaging their mental health.
The Anxiety Guy
MARCH 3, 2025
Holding onto fear, worry, over-analysis, and relying on ‘intellectualizing’ every problem can feel like you’re receiving some level of protection. However, what’s really happening is that your nervous system is becoming more fatigued and run down in the process. Let’s dive into exactly what you need to hear today, enjoy the podcast: If fear is overwhelming and exhausting, why do we cling to it?
The Mental Elf
MARCH 10, 2025
Shuichi Suetani and Sarah Thomas highlight new research from Korea which suggests that antipsychotic medications do seem to help reduce the relapse of schizophrenia in pregnant women. The post Continuing antipsychotic medication during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of schizophrenia relapse appeared first on National Elf Service.
The New York Times -- Mental Health
MARCH 7, 2025
New York Citys involuntary removal policy was supposed to make it easier to help mentally ill homeless people get the care they need. In practice, it has raised impossible questions.
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 1, 2025
Learn more about recent research into adolescent mental health, including a pilot study testing the use of short-term trauma stabilization techniques with escitalopram.
Mad in America
MARCH 4, 2025
A new study published in Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry finds that antidepressant use is linked to type 2 diabetes (T2D). Beyond a simple link, the methods used in the current work point towards antidepressants as a cause of increased risk of T2D in people diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD). The current research, led by Ancha Baranova of George Mason University and Dongming Liu of Nanjing University, found a weaker link between genetic components of M
NPR - Mental Health
MARCH 7, 2025
A group called Force Blue, which does ocean conservation work, isproviding what they call "mission therapy" to veterans who miss the camaraderie and the sense of purpose of service.
Chipur
MARCH 6, 2025
Its been six months now. You still dont like the episodes, but you feel safe enough to be curious. I have to admit its interesting. I mean, why does my brain do this? Derealization and depersonalization: Perceived madness - exploring. Lets do some. The post Derealization and depersonalization: Perceived madness | 3 appeared first on Chipur.
The Mental Elf
MARCH 6, 2025
Linda Gask blogs a systematic review finding that personal trauma is linked to onset of secondary trauma in mental health professionals. The post Personal trauma is associated with secondary traumatic stress in mental health professionals appeared first on National Elf Service.
The New York Times -- Mental Health
MARCH 13, 2025
In the lowest moment of Selwyn Bernardezs life, he attacked a stranger with a sword. It was another transit horror story, but with a different ending.
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 4, 2025
The PREDiCTOR study is trying to develop objective measurements for psychiatric diagnoses.
Very Well Mind
MARCH 7, 2025
In this article, we explore what quiet quitting looks and feels like, and what to do if you think your partner is slowly pulling away from your relationship.
ADDitude
MARCH 3, 2025
Wanted: The best jobs for ADHD brains. Applicant Requirements: Must be creative, energetic, hands-on, intensely engaged (aka hyperfocused), and demonstrate outside-the-box thinking and ingenious problem-solving skills. Sound like you? Sure, a persons ADHD-fueled passion can help them shine in that just-right job. The opposite is also true. When a workers skill set and job are mismatched say, a role that requires long hours at a desk, performing repetitive tasks day after day experts report tha
Global News - Mental Health News
MARCH 12, 2025
The new guidance is meant to inform healthcare providers on the circumstances under which the Mental Health Act can be used to obtain involuntary treatment for a patient.
The Mental Elf
MARCH 5, 2025
Ella Tuominen looks at a study of childhood adversity and 'treatment resistant depression' and asks: Can long-term psychoanalytic therapy provide deeper healing for chronic depression than CBT? The post Childhood adversity and adult depression: Psychoanalysis vs CBT appeared first on National Elf Service.
The New York Times -- Mental Health
MARCH 11, 2025
Chronic stress can make you feel cynical about your job. Experts have tips for fighting the feeling.
Psychiatric Times
MARCH 4, 2025
Vincenzo Di Nicola has won the Award for Leadership in Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Psychiatry. Learn more about his thoughts on trauma, leadership, and issues in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Very Well Mind
MARCH 3, 2025
This meditative exercise started as a poem, and has since become a social media trend. Learn all about how to perform it, and why you should.
Psychiatry News -- Science Daily
MARCH 3, 2025
Having one traumatic experience is bad enough. If you've constantly experienced stress since before birth, you may be in for an especially tough time. Our emotions may be influenced by infections experienced in the mother's womb. This can result from two-hit stress, where an infection during pregnancy is followed by social stress during postpartum development.
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