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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

Validated instruments such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) can identify anxiety symptoms; however, screening can be supplemented with anxiety-specific screening instruments , such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) and the Perinatal Anxiety Screening Scale (PASS).

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Keough, PhD Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Child Mind Institute Pretend play, also known as imaginative play, includes a range of imaginative behaviors and actions that become more complex over early childhood (Lillard et al., 2021; Galyer & Evans, 2001; Gilpin et al., By Kathryn L. Galyer, K. T., & Evans, I.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

Mad in America

Siem: This was in 2001 and the timing is important for context as the world was a little different then. I’m diagnosing a depressive and anxiety disorder and recommending medication.” I was 15 years old and my father had suddenly passed away. Brooke doesn’t need a psychologist, she needs a psychiatrist.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

In 2001, a GSK paroxetine Assay in depressed children (Study 329), was published in the best journal in child psychopharmacology, trumpeting paroxetine’s benefits and safety. Rather than give us a serenic, which many might feel was not unreasonable to take at times, doctors have to give us an anxiety disorder.