Lightwork

MARCH 19, 2025

Your skin health and mental well-being are closely connected. While the medication can effectively clear stubborn acne and boost confidence, it’s important to also be aware of the reported psychological effects. In this article, we will delve into the intricate link between Accutane and mental health.

Genetics and mental health 52

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Zencare

JUNE 9, 2025

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. People hear something they can relate to, and they self-diagnose and/or treat themselves based on the worst case.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

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. I decided to agree with the medical model, that it was a genetic disease that could be treated with a medication, like diabetes. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. I was angry.

Trauma and the brain 143

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

An investigation, published in 2021 in the Journal of Affective Disorders , of 5,872 cases and 43,862 controls that examined 22,028 genes, reported that the study “fails to identify genes influencing the probability of developing a mood disorder” and “no gene or gene set produced a statistically significant result.” Genes and depression?

Poverty and mental health 145

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Solara Mental Health

AUGUST 16, 2021

This highly focused mental state is what Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls flow. People, such as athletes, who experience flow regularly are more likely to develop positive traits, including higher self-esteem, better concentration, and general performance. Retrieved August 16, 2021, from [link]

Self-awareness 52

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Mad in America

APRIL 19, 2025

In a recent article, Turkheimer and Greer critiqued the overblown conclusions drawn from a large, long-running, high-profile genetic study, Spit For Science (S4S). They add, Most of the papers ignore the tiny effects, reaching optimistic conclusions about the prospects for future genetic explanations of alcohol use.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’

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