Psychiatric Times

AUGUST 5, 2025

Until then, we desperately need these medications for individuals with disabling, long-term, treatment-resistant anxiety disorders. November 13, 2023. Concluding Thoughts Some day the benzodiazepine wars will end—but probably not until we have a better set of treatments that makes them obsolete. Updated April 15, 2025.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

Number of genes Explained variance (%) Anxiety disorders 200,000 6 0.5 Bipolar disorder 413,000 64 4.6 Depressive disorder 1,154,000 178 1.5-3.2 Image from Schleim (2023) , CC BY 4.0. Malfunction Number of persons (approx.) ADHD 55,000 12 5.5 Autism Spectrum 53,000 5 1.4 Anorexia 73,000 8 1.7 PTSD 207,000 3 0.15

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 24, 2025

You have been seeing Max for a few months for medication management of his generalized anxiety disorder, and he is nearly in remission. A 2023 study of surgery and urology residents showed that 52% of all residents experienced some form of mistreatment, with 88% of female respondents indicating negative experiences.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). The dealbreaker, he said, was researcher and participant bias due to lack of blinding.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2025

Secondly, Jasmine has depression and anxiety disorders, said the doctor. Secondly, Jasmine has an eating disorder, said the therapist. Secondly, a person with an eating disorder is always driven to become sicker because the nature of the disorder is to make you feel as though you are never sick enough.

Eating disorders

Clear Behavioral Health

AUGUST 8, 2025

Mental health history: Students with a history of mental health issues may be more susceptible to anxiety or depression, especially during transitions. If a student has experienced mental health challenges like anxiety disorders or mood disorders before, the added stress of returning to school can worsen their symptoms.

Sleep and mental health

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

JULY 29, 2025

Mood and anxiety disorders are common in women, and many women will grapple with the difficult decision of whether or not to use medications during pregnancy. Fleischman, MD, MBA, FACOG, President of ACOG. Keep Reading March 25, 2016 What Happens When Breastfeeding Doesn’t Go As Planned?

Bipolar disorder

Clear Behavioral Health

JUNE 27, 2025

You might be thinking that test anxiety is normal, although pre-test nerves are common; however, clinical testing anxiety is a psychological condition. People who experience generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have a greater chance of developing testing anxiety. Related: What is Anxiety? 2023, October 14).

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

I n early 2025, Cochrane published a seriously flawed review of antidepressants for generalised anxiety disorder. The senior author, Giuseppe Guaiana, said that their research showed that the drugs are “highly effective” at treating generalised anxiety disorder. 2 This is totally false. This was a dire forewarning.

Anxiety disorders

ADDitude

MARCH 20, 2025

They also demonstrated an increased risk for OCD, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), depression, learning disorders, conduct disorder, and more. Unlike other eating disorders, the distribution of males and females with ARFID has been reported to be approximately equal, the researchers wrote.

Eating disorders

ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

and 25% experience postpartum anxiety disorders, compared to 4.61% of women without ADHD. Perceived associations between the menstrual cycle and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A qualitative interview study exploring lived experiences. Journal of Affective Disorders. of women without ADHD. Wynchank D.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

Resilience and coping

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rather than give us a serenic, which many might feel was not unreasonable to take at times, doctors have to give us an anxiety disorder. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 2023, 25, 119-134. Rather than market a tonic to us to improve our appetite or sleep, marketing to doctors means making us depressed.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Pigott’s 2023 publication in the British Medical Journal of data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, which appeared not many months before that story, documents STAR*D’s flagrantly erroneous data analyses. Within days of learning of the misreporting of cancer research at Dana Farber, that story was on page one of the Times.

Aging and mental health