Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 14, 2025

It reduces the noise of inattention or hyperactivity so kids can develop coping skills and improve self-regulation. It can boost their self-esteem and ability to function in the family. At all ages, ADHD symptoms vary by setting, but they can create significant distress and real consequences that require meaningful support.

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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. Starting at the age of five I can remember being fearful of her. I became a yoga teacher while working in recruiting and aspired to move my career towards health and wellness.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health 143

Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 1, 2025

Backed by Child Mind Institute’s clinical expertise and available in English and Spanish, Mirror aims to enhance emotional processing and provide a supportive environment for self-reflection. Mirror is not a replacement for therapy, but a tool to empower youth to take an active role in their mental health journey.

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Nonprofits Education 52

Solara Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However this convenience comes with pros and cons as using these apps takes up plenty space (both mental and physical) so make sure before swiping away. People use dating apps as a way to find an answer to the age-old question “where are the good single men/women?”,

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Technology 52

ADDitude

MAY 20, 2025

Music Therapy Boosts Emotional, Social Skills Music listening may be self-directed or facilitated by a trained music therapist, as part of music therapy. The systematic review included 20 studies published between 1981 and 2023, reflecting data from 1,170 participants aged 2 to 56 years.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This stark difference isn’t just a statistical anomalyit reflects complex biological, social, and cultural factors that shape women’s mental health experiences. You’ll discover how biological factors, cultural influences, and age-related challenges contribute to anxiety in women.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function.

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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. This type of therapy is different from traditional talk therapy because it lets you explore your inner self through creative expression.

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

Child Mind Intitute

DECEMBER 6, 2024

But with concerns about cyberbullying and detrimental effects of social media on self-esteem and mental health , others say it shouldnt even be a question. Parents worry about their childrens exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, scams, and predators, as well as social medias impact on their mental health.

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Social media impact 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Hospitality Biopsychosocial model 144

Child Mind Intitute

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Your child and their peers will soon become aware of those differences as well, if they havent already. Undiagnosed kids with autism may worry theres something wrong with them, unable to pinpoint why they feel different from other kids their age. You may want to meet with a mental health professional yourself.

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Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

My anecdotal explanation is that psychologists and psychiatrists are more concerned with self-preservation and their own ego, despite the latter actually being medical doctors. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities. Why is this?

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Mad in America

MAY 23, 2025

The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a network of therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, and religious reform programs that claim to treat mental health struggles in teens. The TTI uses psychological persuasion tactics to capitalize on the guilt parents feel when their children face mental health challenges.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

My journey with this condition led me down a path where I ended up engaging with community efforts to investigate it, to try to spread awareness, and to elucidate aspects that I believe urgently need research so patients can access the correct diagnosis and potential access to treatments. After a year, I tapered off but I was still the same.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 134

Mad in America

JUNE 22, 2024

W ith all the recent coverage of the youth mental health crisis and the role of social media, little attention has been given to the way platforms like TikTok promote certain narratives about mental health—shifting not only the conversation but also the way mental health issues are actually experienced.

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Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His writing offers unique insights into the hegemonic foundations of mental health and champions the role of narrative in therapy. His profound appreciation for the humanities guides his exploration of mental health, often through the lens of art and literature. Post-psychiatry introduces these questions to the field.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 139

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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Aging and mental health Mental health policy Insurance Pharmaceuticals 142

Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

A number of mental health approaches like Soteria, Diabasis, Open Dialogue and various others operate on what has become known as the Wellness principle. Both can also be found in one form or another in many ancient spiritual practices but are invariably lacking or not present at all in the biomedical approach to mental health.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 139

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

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Aging and mental health Insurance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 144

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. 1921 Survey This survey was commissioned because of dissatisfaction with how the mentally ill were being handled, and to plan for future need.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 83

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. The gravitas of this was, of course, completely unknown to my seventeen-year-old self when I entered my therapists office in 1991 and sat down, speaking hesitantly to her about my life and the recent breakdown.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. The anti-hero of the novel holds a preference for the perfect conception of himself.

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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. Depression is undoubtedly a major health problem, but I believe the soaring “increase” is a fiction and not real.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 80

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. 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.”

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

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 think radical acceptance and radical self-awareness go hand in hand.

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Self-awareness Genetics and mental health Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 110

Love & Life Toolbox

MAY 26, 2025

For many of us, as we age and move through different developmental stages, our perceptions, beliefs and priorities shift to some degree. These times can occur without awareness of them initially. Mid-life is a common time for this to happen as your awareness of aging sharpens. Do you enjoy it? Is the work culture healthy?

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Self-awareness Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 45

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal. Depression is really more about the energy whether its mental energy or physical energy to make an effective response.

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s a basic definition from the internet : “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.” So I decided to indulge my wife’s deep longings for her unfulfilled childhood wishes. Our son and I freaked out!

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

A Brief Group Social-Belonging Intervention to Improve Mental-Health and Academic Outcomes in BIPOC and First-Generation-to-College Students Erin S. Understanding Ethnoracial Disparities and Advancing Mental Health Equity Through Clinical Psychological Science: Introduction to Special Issue P.

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Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 59

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And our commonly held psychological theories make it hard for people to make direct contact with depression as a living experience, by framing it as an objective mental disorder to be quickly eliminated. Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem.

Construction 52

Construction Aging and mental health Self-awareness Technology 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 135

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

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