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Is Ondansetron Safe for Women With Mental Health Conditions?

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Navigating medication safety during pregnancy can feel overwhelming, especially for women managing mental health conditions. For women with mental health conditions, the decision to use ondansetron requires careful consideration. The rising use of ondansetron for pregnancy-related nausea presents a complex scenario.

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Why Social Media Can’t Replace a Real Therapist

Zencare

I know I’ve diagnosed myself with a rare genetic disease a time or two only to discover it’s just a gas. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are like a symptom checker for mental health conditions. Or they present to a mental health professional and insist on a particular diagnosis.

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

Mad in America

The two positive themes were ‘symptom reduction’ and ‘sleep’. Maybe helpful for a short time, but likely not worth it in the end they clouded my perceptions and sense of self very badly’ ‘They are not “antipsychotic” they just helped me sleep.’ ‘I 10 Thematic analysis identified 749 negative, 180 positive, and 53 mixed statements.

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Testosterone and ADHD in Men: Is There a Link?

ADDitude

Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. The review concluded that most of the studies that exist on hormones and mental health outcomes were at high risk for bias and involved many confounding factors. J Health Soc Behav.