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The 6 Steps to Catalyze CBT and DBT With Young Patients

Psychiatric Times

Principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in children. Knoll IV, MD June 23rd 2025 Beyond the Night: Unraveling the Psychiatric Impact of Sleep Disorders Michael S.B. Knoll IV, MD June 23rd 2025 Beyond the Night: Unraveling the Psychiatric Impact of Sleep Disorders Michael S.B. Springer; 2022.

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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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High Functioning Anxiety

Dr. Christianheim Preventative Mental Health

Research has uncovered the importance of sub-threshold Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Haller, 2014). High functioning anxiety is twice as prevalent as GAD. It can lead to clinical GAD or other anxiety problems. Do you too often look for comfort and release in alcohol, cannabis or online addictions?

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray).

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

Mad in America

For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax.

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How to Overcome Health Anxiety: 5 Effective Strategies

The Anxiety Guy

Laughter increases endorphin release , reduces cortisol , and improves immune response (according to a 2014 review in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine ). Humor is a pattern interrupt. It rewires the brains threat response by shifting the emotional tone.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

A well-substantiated body of scientific research argues for rejecting psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm for mental health and mental disorder and replacing it with a social/psychological paradigm. The WHO’s call in 2014 for paradigm change has been answered by some important allies, one even outside of the mental health community.