Lightwork

JANUARY 30, 2025

At LightWork Therapy and Recovery , a mental health treatment center in Woburn, Massachusetts, we’ve seen how powerful creative expression can be in treating mental health issues. Our clients find new ways to communicate their deepest thoughts and feelings, breaking free from the limitations of spoken language.

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Art therapy Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health 52

Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a bio-neurological developmental disability that generally appears before the age of 3. About 25%30% of children with autism have some words at 12 to 18 months of age and then lose them. The post Autism Facts appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Child Mind Intitute

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Encopresis, or soiling, is defined as consistent bowel movements anywhere other than the toilet after the age of four. And according to Sandra Whitehouse, PhD, the senior director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute, this is usually how parents start to detect something is wrong. What is encopresis?

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Aging and mental health Anxiety disorders 52

Bullet Psych

JUNE 25, 2023

Not attributable to a concurrent medical/mental condition. Rumination Disorder Repeated regurgitation of food for 1 month. Epidemiology/Pathogenesis 3 , 4 , 5 Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) : Since ARFID is a relatively new diagnosis, population-based prevalence studies are limited.

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Eating disorders Autism spectrum Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2025

Jasmine will attend appointments at campus health center as recommended by team members. Secondly, Jasmine has depression and anxiety disorders, said the doctor. Secondly, Jasmine has an eating disorder, said the therapist. Secondly, Jasmine is not complying with her treatment agreement, said the care team.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. He is known for his use of sharp humor, which can be seen in his mock documentary about a fictional illness called ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder.’ This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax. Imagine that?!

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 124

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. One ADDitude reader, Tiffany Bird, suffered decades of poor health before being diagnosed with ARFID in her late 20s.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Age : Insomnia symptoms can start at any age, but the first episode is more common in young adults. Overall, complaints are more common in middle-age and older adults. Late-life onset is often linked to other health conditions. Does not occur exclusively during the course of another sleep-wake disorder.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs. Is depression really on the increase?

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 79

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! This is the first step in evaluating any new drug, trying out the drug on normal people without the health problem under consideration.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Most of that was because I’d been adopted at birth, but around age 20 I met my biological mom. He told me I had an anxiety disorder on top of being depressed, and that there was a medication called Klonopin that would help my anxiety and another one called Celexa for my depression. I found out at a very young age.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore: We’re here to talk about some of your experiences of the mental health system and polypharmacy, experiences which are beautifully captured in your book, May Cause Side Effects , published by Central Recovery Press in 2022. I’m diagnosing a depressive and anxiety disorder and recommending medication.”

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Solara Mental Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There is no intention of being suicidal, and the condition involves quite a bit of secrecy, shame , anxiety , and often lying. It may involve mental illness , and is also a very isolating activity, making it more difficult for someone to admit to harming himself or herself. Note that about 1.3

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

Not wanting to go to school may occur at any time, but is most common between ages 5-7 and 11-14, years when most children are dealing with the new challenges of elementary and middle school. In some cases, it can be the result of the child experiencing bullying, behavioral/mental health issues, or trauma.

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ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

and 25% experience postpartum anxiety disorders, compared to 4.61% of women without ADHD. Depression and Anxiety Disorders During the Postpartum Period in Women Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. Drugs & Aging , 39(8), 607618. Viktorin, A.,

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Genetics and mental health Anxiety disorders Aging and mental health Healthcare 77

Bullet Psych

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Etiology/Epidemiology Risk factors include stress ful life events, trauma , anxiety disorders, sleep deprivation , irregular sleep schedules, and certain medications or substance use such as antidepressants or withdrawal from alcohol. Prevalence decreases with age; about 1-5% of the adult population experience frequent nightmares.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 40

Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

M y long and complicated lifelong relationship with mental health issues and mainstream psychiatry takes place across three different countries. Naturally, I developed an eating disorder and OCD at an early age. Around age 11, I had a classmate commit suicide. The first time I saw a psychiatrist was around age 12.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Anxiety disorders 129

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The STAR*D study was the third of three major studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment of depression. Data, not anecdotal opinions of scientists and doctors, must rule in health science. He, too, was spurned.

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Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manufacturing Anxiety disorders 145

Mad in America

MAY 15, 2025

According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network , approximately 25% of American children will experience at least one traumatic event by the age of 16. The same has happened with other words that have been de-closeted, such as depression, anxiety, and OCD. This is very common.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. One of the strange things about being a professor is that we get older, but our students stay the same age.

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