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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

As a Doctor of Korean Medicine who helps patients taper off long-term psychotropic medication, I see the cracks in the system every daypatients who were placed on antidepressants, sleeping pills, or antipsychotics decades ago and never given a clear path to recovery. in 2022, reflecting a trend that continues to rise year after year.

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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE The FDA will update ADHD medication labels, warning of weight loss risks in children under 6, urging careful monitoring by health care professionals. Health care professionals should monitor the child’s growth and development and provide necessary interventions to mitigate weight loss.”

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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

Mad in America

W hen I first saw Laura Delano’s story was being published by Penguin, a major publisher, I knew that we were on the brink of change by way of the public narrative around mental health in the west. Like Laura, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age seventeen.

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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. In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst. The reasons for the nations poor mental health are multifaceted and difficult to resolve, however.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.” Do it slightly differently each time, and preferably with increasing levels of associative limbic cues (humor? Goldberg, MD, and Anita H. Goldberg, MD, and Anita H.

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History, Physiology, and Pharmacology of Incretins

Psychiatric Times

FDA Indications, Potential Future Indications, and Areas of Investigation for GLP-1 RAs Soon after their introduction, GLP-1 RAs’ significant weight-lowering effects and health benefits in other medical disorders became apparent, with relatively greater metabolic and weight loss benefits reported with newer GLP-1 RAs and dual agonists.

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Teenage years crucial for depression intervention

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

The findings highlight the importance of targeting depression at an early age, when symptoms are still changing, experts say. Symptom patterns become more stable across adolescence, with individuals more likely to be persistently depressed or experience no depressive symptoms, while symptoms fluctuate at younger ages. Whalley, Alex S.