Zencare

JUNE 9, 2025

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. Finding a licensed mental health professional can feel frustrating. This is why social media shouldn’t be your therapist.

Genetics and mental health 94

Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Education 94

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

It all started in 2014, less than a year after my honorable discharge from the Army, and shortly after returning home from Afghanistan, where I’d served as an Apache helicopter mechanic. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. As a result of stopping the Prozac my sleep schedule was destroyed.

Trauma and the brain 135

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 135

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

Genetics and mental health 71

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 71

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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.

Technology 144

Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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.

Sleep and mental health 145

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

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

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. From that day on, he could no longer sleep. It begins, as such stories do, with common human struggles.

Sleep and mental health 131

Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 131

Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In 2020, the UK mental health charity Mind said it signposted people to street drug charities to help them withdraw from depression pills because of the lack of available alternatives. In November 2019, the Danish National Board of Health issued a guideline about depression pills to family doctors that was dangerous.

Sleep and mental health 143

Sleep and mental health Legal Pharmaceuticals Hospitality 143

ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

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.

Aging and mental health 88

Aging and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 88

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

She was continuously hospitalized from November 5, 2014, and transferred to Manhattan Psychiatric Center (MPC) on March 31, 2015. She was prescribed what she assumed were sleeping pills and had taken some to sleep. When the NYS Office of Mental Health held a conference on research in 1988, Linda and I both attended.

Sleep and mental health 98

Sleep and mental health Hospitality Aging and mental health Education 98