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

Mad in America

S outh Korea is often celebrated for its remarkable economic growth, technological advancement, and cultural exports like K-pop and Korean dramas. A Silent Crisis Despite rising awareness, mental health is still a taboo topic in many Korean families. Ive also been one of them. Psychotherapy is rarely suggested. The implication?

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

W e are living in an era of unparalleled prosperity, driven by advances in technology that have made the basic necessities of life—food, water, shelter—widely accessible to many. Life in America has generally become easier due to technological advancements. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? Technology further distracts from inner experiences. These examples arent quirky accidents.

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

Technology offers benefits like enhanced education but poses challenges such as reduced human connection and ethical concerns. Effective psychiatric leadership requires balancing generational and technological dynamics to foster collaboration and innovation.

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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?

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Risk Factors for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1 EP: 3. Overview of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder EP: 2. ADHD Diagnosis Criteria EP: 4. Challenges in Diagnosing ADHD EP: 5. Impact of ADHD on Patient’s Quality of Life Now Viewing EP: 6. Risk Factors for ADHD EP: 7.

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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.