Anxiety & Depression Association of America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector.

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Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2013. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To To be clear, I have no regrets about NIMH funding for genomics and neuroscience.”

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 140

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

At this time, I also needed to pay for my second-year master’s programme and there was no money so I thought I would drop out, but God used someone to provide for me and I was able to pay and conclude my master’s programme in 2013. I have also learnt so many things about mental health and my hope for the future has increased.

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Sleep and mental health Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 128

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. The Office on Women’s Health makes similar recommendations as in the StatPearls article, but they place an emphasis on therapy, support groups, self-care, social support before turning to medication. We need pills, but we need much more.”

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Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Insurance 124

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

Neurotransmitters and mental health 143

Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 143

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.” We attempted to get help from a sleep clinic, and they refused to test him, claiming his insomnia was caused by “mental health issues.”

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 129

ADDitude

MARCH 20, 2025

These results stand out amid the relatively scarce research data on ARFID , an eating disorder added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders ( DSM-5 ) in 2013. One ADDitude reader, Tiffany Bird, suffered decades of poor health before being diagnosed with ARFID in her late 20s.

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Eating disorders Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 99

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%.

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

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Pharmaceuticals Insurance 145

Real Psychiatry

JUNE 1, 2025

I got used to seeing people tell me that many of the substances they were using were for a psychiatric treatment even though they had never been seen or evaluated for a mental health problem. Half of the frequent users also reported a decline in mental health. 2013 Dec 1;24(4):113-6. Urological Science.

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Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Education 89

Solara Mental Health

AUGUST 30, 2021

Laughter also loosens blood vessels and can lower signs of aging within them. Human studies have even shown intranasal oxytocin to stimulate the vagus nerve and improve mental stress test scores. We tend to either focus on either our mental health or our physical health, typically not both at the same time.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Neurotransmitters and mental health Aging and mental health Positive psychology 52

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 7, 2024

A standard research technique to assess stress effects on blood pressure is to ask subjects to do mental arithmetic and it generally leads to a blood pressure effect like what the authors describe in this paper of 20 mm systolic or 10 mm diastolic. Access to the electronic health record can show long term trends. 2013 Dec;62(6):982-7.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. It is well established that ASD is linked to difficulties with an ability what Peter Fonagy and colleagues call mentalizing; a cognitive and emotional understanding of human behaviours.

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Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When the FDA analysed all the trials in 2006, there was a curve in their report that showed that the suicide risk increased right up to the age of 40. Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. ” This information is not entirely accurate.

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

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. But I am still confused by what happened with the teen train track suicides in Palo Alto—first in 2009-2010, again in 2013-14, and yet again in 2015-16. They were socially skilled and academically successful. Pornography.

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Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Adolescent mental health 116

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Boundary-crossing relationships were commonplace as these pioneers saw themselves as cultural revolutionaries existing outside of social and legal norms and fueled by the magical powers of psychedelics as they ushered in a spiritual New Age. Ingrasci never expressed any public remorse or accountability for his violations.

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Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 123