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Stimulants Do Not Cause Psychosis: New Research

ADDitude

used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, a longitudinal study that followed 8,391 children ages 9 to 14, for a year. Children who take stimulants are more likely to experience severe ADHD symptoms and additional mental health comorbidities ; these factors, and not the stimulants, likely account for the association.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

Mad in America

The Clash of Narratives In Unshrunk , Laura tells of how when she read my book Anatomy of an Epidemic, she suddenly saw her past life as a mental patient in a new light. Perhaps it wasnt that she suffered from a mental illness, but rather it was her diagnosis and drug treatment that had caused her such suffering.

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Image-Based Memory May Heighten Symptoms of PTSD 

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

In the first study, participants ranged in age between 18 and 83. Mental imagery and post-traumatic stress disorder: A neuroimaging and experimental psychopathology approach to intrusive memories of trauma. Mental imagery in depression: Phenomenology, potential mechanisms, and treatment implications. 2016; Ji et al.,

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How Donating Can Help Manage Depression Symptoms

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Across all studies, the average age of the participants was 21. They also found that those who gave more generously tended to have greater mental health benefits than those who donated less.This included more positive emotionality overall. The first, which included 125 participants, didnt record how much people donated.

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A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

Mad in America

He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age.

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Letting Go of Lithium

Mad in America

My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. Starting at the age of five I can remember being fearful of her. I became a yoga teacher while working in recruiting and aspired to move my career towards health and wellness.