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Talk therapy is up, and use of psych meds without therapy is down, a study finds

NPR - Mental Health

MAY 5, 2025

The study looks at trends in mental health treatment from 2018 to 2021. A study from the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that psychotherapy is becoming more accessible to people. Image credit: simplehappyart/iStockphoto)

Americans are relying more on therapy than medication for their mental health needs

NPR - Mental Health

MAY 3, 2025

The number of Americans relying on psychotherapy went up between 2018 and 2021, whereas the number of people using psychiatric medications went down.

Talk therapy is on the rise

NPR - Mental Health

MAY 4, 2025

The number of Americans relying on psychotherapy went up between 2018 and 2021, whereas the number of people using psychiatric medications went down.

The Psychiatrist Who Got Hooked on Antidepressants — Now, He Helps Others to Quit

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

’ In October 2021 Horowitz set up England’s first deprescribing clinic in north London with Joanna Moncrieff, a consultant psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at UCL, which has so far treated 40 patients but fields referrals for hundreds more a month. ‘The story is the same,’ Horowitz says.

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Paula J. Clayton, MD (1934 – 2021): Pioneering Psychiatry with Passion and Precision

Anxiety & Depression Association of America

FEBRUARY 27, 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. In this blog, learn about Paula Clayton, MD, an internationally recognized researcher, dedicated to destigmatizing mental health and advocating suicide prevention.

Student Notebook: Is the Clinical Psychology PhD Admissions Process Scientific?

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 17, 2025

2021; Montgomery Rice et al., Programs should consider prioritizing a holistic review of applications, including diversity essay prompts, and expanding and quantifying the number and type of admission factors (De Los Reyes & Uddin, 2021). 2021; Gmez et al., 2021; Gmez et al., Child and Family Experiences Lab ).

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Psychiatric Patients Restrained at Sky-High Rates at This L.A. Hospital

Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Those numbers doubled between 2020 and 2021 — the latest figures publicly available — even as the statewide average for other inpatient facilities barely increased. Other large safety net facilities in California and across the country do not use physical restraint at anywhere near the same rates as L.A.

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Framer, 2021) While its wrong to deny the reality of protracted withdrawal, it’s also wrong to say that going off antidepressants or other drugs will always result in protracted withdrawal. Even interpreted critically, studies (such as Lewis, et al, 2021; Kendrick, et al., link] Lewis, G., Marston, L., Freemantle, N.,

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These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Most teen girls—57 percent—felt ‘persistently sad or hopeless’ in 2021, up from 36 percent in 2011. From 2007 to 2016, pediatric emergency-room visits for mental-health disorders rose 60 percent. That figure is a still-not-great 29 percent among teen boys.

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‘We Hold You Sacred’: Fighting the Opioid Crisis in the Cherokee Nation

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The lawsuit, which was settled in 2021 with a $75m payout to the Cherokee Nation, alleged that in just one year, nearly 800kg of opioids – enough for almost 10m pills at oxycodone’s highest strength – were distributed within the reservation.

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Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

Timander (2021) describes a woman who has a transpersonal experience of Love that fills her and how she was diagnosed with psychosis within Swedish psychiatry. Corneille & Luke (2021), describe transcendence as a spiritual awakening where ego boundaries are dissolved and ordinary and everyday experience is transcended. Timander, A.

Aging and mental health

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Tips for Estimating Power in Complex Statistical Models

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Wang and Rhemtullas (2021) PwrSEM ( [link] ) allows you to estimate the power to detect any path in just about any structural equation model, as long as you can guesstimate the values for the model path coefficients. It is so much easier to report the power for the regression analysis. Heck, there is an app for that (G*Power).

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

Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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 Dam (photo courtesy of his mother) Silas Dam killed himself this summer, only 24 years old.

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

JULY 31, 2024

2021; Galyer & Evans, 2001; Gilpin et al., 2021; White & Carlson, 2021, White et al., Research suggests that emotion knowledge and regulation skills are better developed among young children who engage in more frequent pretend play and demonstrate a stronger preference for fantasy-based play and thoughts (Bauer et al.,

Education

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Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency Worsens Sleep Problems in Children with ADHD

ADDitude

APRIL 29, 2025

et al (2021). Sleep disturbances in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. <em>Expert <em>Expert Rev Neurother.</em> </em> [link] 6 Miller, M.C., Eugene Arnold, L.

Sleep and mental health

Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality over the six past decades (1960-2021): a systematic review of 49 time-trends studies

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

MARCH 29, 2025

Publication date: Available online 29 March 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Edouard Leaune, Morgane Cornelis, Kushtrim Bislimi, Benoit Chalancon, Hans Oh

When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This suggests that psychological science has yet to establish consistent, reliable findings across different research methods, they said in Perspectives in Psychological Science (Linden & Hnekopp, 2021). They just acknowledge them and treat them as noise. As a model, they laud the U.S.-based Rossignac-Milon, M., & Hassin, R.

Education

Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental Health

Mad in America

JULY 20, 2024

Students mention that it’s common for their peers to struggle with their mental health because they’re balancing a job with a heavy academic load.

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Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I began a master’s degree in consciousness, spirituality and transpersonal psychology in 2021, in the hope that it would shed more light on such experiences. Artwork by J Transpersonal psychology examines experiences which include a sense of connection with an expansive, more meaningful reality.

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Simultaneously, in the 2021 Mental Health Atlas of the WHO it was found that only 49 countries, which is equivalent to 31% of responding countries or 25% of WHO Member States, reported the integration of mental health into primary care including the provision of psychosocial interventions.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Not long after this, in 2021, the WHO published “ Guidance on Community Mental Health Services: Promoting Person-Centered and Rights-Based Approaches ”. Why lambaste the UN and the special rapporteur if these reforms were already in the pipeline?

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Beyond the Diagnosis: Understanding and Supporting Mothers With Substance Use Disorders

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MAY 15, 2025

In 2021, she served as a political appointee to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, elevating her community support efforts to a national platform. Ariel Britt, MSW, Dear Jude Media Website Britt is passionate about community empowerment through education and speaking.

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HIPAA-compliant email revisited

Reidbord's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In January 2021, I described my search for a HIPAA-compliant email provider for my practice, and reviewed several options. In the end I chose Hushmail for Healthcare. It was, and is, a good service: thoughtfully featured, reasonably priced (with minor changes since then), and fast support when needed. But the truth is, I didn’t [.]

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Real World Evidence and Cannabis Psychosis

Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

In this case they selected a cohort of 1772 patient with a diagnosis of cannabis induced psychosis (CIP) from Swedish registry and insurance data between January 2006 and December 2021. Exclusion criteria included any previous diagnosis of substance induced psychosis, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder.

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Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The project emerged in a specific geographical and historical context: between 2018-2021, a Royal Commission was convened to examine the Mental Health System in Victoria, Australia. The Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair project endeavoured to address such questions.

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Meg’s Journey with SANE

Sane Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

In May 2021, as part of her commitment to furthering her recovery, Meg discovered SANE during a search for mental health support services on Google. Over the years, she has struggled to maintain consistent employment, finding that work often triggered stress.

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Veteran Homelessness

Solara Mental Health

APRIL 22, 2022

More than 75 percent of homeless veterans struggle with some form of addiction. More than 75 percent of homeless veterans struggle with some form of addiction.

Poverty and mental health

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MHA Screening: A Local Approach in Cook County, Illinois

Mental Health America (MHA)

APRIL 19, 2023

MHA Screening: A Local Approach in Cook County, Illinois April 25, 2023 MHA Admin Wed, 04/19/2023 - 10:34 Download the Local Approach in Cook County, Illinois Report Since 2014, Mental Health America (MHA) Screening has provided mental health screenings online to over 20 million users worldwide, supporting over 5 million users annually since 2021.

The Trauma of Psychosis: My “Bipolar” Journey

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In May of 2021 I had a severe manic episode that led to psychosis. I tell this story through the lens of akathisia (and a similar condition known as restless leg syndrome or RLS) since it was an early indicator for me that while I was being treated for the typical symptoms of bipolar, I was actually dealing with trauma.

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Data on Children in Poverty

Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

About 39% percent of the nations young children (under age 6) nearly 23 million in 2021 live in families with low incomes. 19% of Connecticut children under 6 received SNAP in 2021 (federal food assistance, formerly known as “food stamps”). Low-income is defined as having income below twice the federal poverty level.

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Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health

ADHD and the PMDD Roller Coaster

ADDitude

APRIL 28, 2025

Epidemiology and pathogenesis of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (R. Barbieri & W. Crowley Jr., link] 2 Dorani, F., Bijlenga, D., Beekman, A. van Someren, E. W., & Kooij, J. Prevalence of hormone-related mood disorder symptoms in women with ADHD. Journal of psychiatric research, 133, 1015. link] Removed

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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The people recruited had a long history of contact with the mental health services on average, including numerous admissions, and were comparable to the general population of people under the care of community mental health services in the UK with the same profile of problems (diagnoses) ( Freudenthal et al, 2021 ).

How Donating Can Help Manage Depression Symptoms

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 15, 2025

Related Research Topic: Giving Yet some research has found that people with mood disorders receive little benefit from engaging in prosocial acts (Gander et al., 2012; Kerr et al., 2015; Wieners et al., Liu speculated that this difference could stem from study design. Can gratitude and kindness interventions enhance well-being in a clinical sample?

Aging and mental health

The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

That’s how I describe my son Will’s mental health journey, which began in 2021, turning a typical night with friends into a nightmare. Told by his mother, Pamela, and his oldest brother, Joe, it’s also a story of resilience, loving commitment, and a push for change against a system riddled with discrimination and harms.

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

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. The first Mental State of the World Reportreleased by The Global Mind Project , which has hosted online surveys examining global trends in mental wellness since 2020, found respondents from South Africa and the UK had the poorest mental health of the 64 countries represented.

Poverty and mental health

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

Investigating Human-Like Processing in Large Language Models: A Glimpse into Findings from Early-Career Researchers

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 29, 2025

2021) showed a correspondence between the semantic features uncovered in narrative speech input and movie input, indicating correspondence in meaning representations derived from verbal and visual input. Later results (Popham et al., B., & Fedorenko, E. 2024) Dissociating language and thought in large language models. Popham, S.

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Forgiving a Friend

Dr. Christianheim Preventative Mental Health

MAY 5, 2022

2021 [i] Heim, Christian. I beg your pardon. Cheers Dr Christian Heim BUY NOW ON AMAZON [i] Heim, Christian. Seven Steps to Forgiveness. Vivid Publishing. Seven Steps to Forgiveness. Vivid Publishing.

Can Men Get Postpartum Depression? Studies Say Yes.

Solara Mental Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Retrieved November 22, 2021, from [link] MU Health Care (Ed.). Retrieved November 22, 2021, from [link] Paulson JF, Bazemore SD. Sources Cleveland Clinic (Ed.). 2019, September 16). Yes, Postpartum Depression in Men Is Very Real. Can Men Suffer from Postpartum Depression ?

Neurotransmitters and mental health

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I was discharged on December 14, 2021, but remnants of myself are still lingering around the hospital. My doctor then switched me to Escitalopram (Lexapro). I felt like an institutionalized guinea pig instead of an individual in need of humanistic and holistic help. My experience saved my life, but it wasn’t the medications that did it.

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The Child Mind Institute Secures $4.25 Million Grant From the Morgan Stanley Foundation to Transform School Mental Health

Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 7, 2025

Over 47 million unique visitors have accessed the Family Resource Center since its 2021 relaunch.

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Spravato Approved for Treatment-Resistant Depression

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

2021 Mar 16;82(2):20m13699. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017, [link] 5 Zhdanava M, Pilon D, Ghelerter I, Chow W, Joshi K, Lefebvre P, Sheehan JJ. The Prevalence and National Burden of Treatment-Resistant Depression and Major Depressive Disorder in the United States. J Clin Psychiatry. doi: 10.4088/JCP.20m13699. PMID: 33989464.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Healthcare

Addiction Rehab for Teens: Breaking the Cycle of Substance Use and Mental Health Challenges

Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 9, 2025

2021, November 17). References: Hellstrm, L., & Beckman, L. Life Challenges and Barriers to Help Seeking: Adolescents and Young Adults Voices of Mental Health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 18 (24), 13101. link] on May 2, 2024 Co-occurring Disorders | Youth.gov.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The many erroneous and misleading statements I found cannot be explained by the advent of new, important knowledge, as the publication dates for the textbooks were recent, from 2016 to 2021.

Genetics and mental health

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Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut

Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

In 2021 and 2022, the CT state legislature approved expansions of the state’s HUSKY Medicaid program to cover undocumented children up to age 12. In Connecticut, 3.5% This should further shrink the number of uninsured kids statewide.

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Talk therapy is up, and use of psych meds without therapy is down, a study finds

Americans are relying more on therapy than medication for their mental health needs

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Talk therapy is on the rise

The Psychiatrist Who Got Hooked on Antidepressants — Now, He Helps Others to Quit

Paula J. Clayton, MD (1934 – 2021): Pioneering Psychiatry with Passion and Precision

Student Notebook: Is the Clinical Psychology PhD Admissions Process Scientific?

Psychiatric Patients Restrained at Sky-High Rates at This L.A. Hospital

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.

‘We Hold You Sacred’: Fighting the Opioid Crisis in the Cherokee Nation

Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences

Tips for Estimating Power in Complex Statistical Models

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

How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency Worsens Sleep Problems in Children with ADHD

Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality over the six past decades (1960-2021): a systematic review of 49 time-trends studies

When One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental Health

Is There Transformative Meaning in Madness?

How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Beyond the Diagnosis: Understanding and Supporting Mothers With Substance Use Disorders

HIPAA-compliant email revisited

Real World Evidence and Cannabis Psychosis

Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

Meg’s Journey with SANE

Veteran Homelessness

MHA Screening: A Local Approach in Cook County, Illinois

The Trauma of Psychosis: My “Bipolar” Journey

Data on Children in Poverty

ADHD and the PMDD Roller Coaster

What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

How Donating Can Help Manage Depression Symptoms

The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

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

Investigating Human-Like Processing in Large Language Models: A Glimpse into Findings from Early-Career Researchers

Forgiving a Friend

Can Men Get Postpartum Depression? Studies Say Yes.

When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

The Child Mind Institute Secures $4.25 Million Grant From the Morgan Stanley Foundation to Transform School Mental Health

Spravato Approved for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Addiction Rehab for Teens: Breaking the Cycle of Substance Use and Mental Health Challenges

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut

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