Lightwork

MAY 1, 2025

Research shows women develop substance dependencies faster than men and experience more severe health consequences from prolonged substance use. Addressing Mental Health in Women’s Recovery Journey Mental health care plays a vital role in women’s addiction recovery.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Fuller Torrey. Fuller Torrey?

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Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access).

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Studies in Australia and the United States followed individuals with subthreshold psychotic symptoms and functional decline, along with a genetic risk for schizophrenia, over time. Research indicates that only 20% to 40% of individuals who meet ultra–high risk (UHR) criteria convert to psychosis within 2 to 4 years.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

667 In an NIMH study of 547 patients that compared six-year outcomes for depressed people treated for the disorder and those who eschewed medical treatment, the treated patients were three times more likely than untreated ones to suffer a cessation of their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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Solara Mental Health

JULY 27, 2023

Image courtesy of Pixabay.com How do you know if you have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) ? This is the second in a series of articles on recognizing ADHD in yourself as an adult, its main causes, proper diagnosis, and suggestions regarding how to address it. What makes this condition recognizable for an adult?

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in Italy. Premise In our information we always emphasize that psychotropic drugs do not have a specific action on mental problems or psychopathology, but only on their symptoms. She has a degree in biological sciences and a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Ferrara.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. In most cases depressed lawyers, like most depressed individuals, have a genetic predisposition to the disorder. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

April 16, 2025 Every few years, the ADHD community must endure another skeptic an author, a journalist, a contrarian mental health provider, quite frequently a chiropractor recycling claims like “ADHD is overdiagnosed,” “stimulants dont work,” or, most remarkably in one case, “ADHD does not exist.”

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ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

April 16, 2025 Since its publication last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine article “Have We Been Thinking About ADHD All Wrong?” To be clear, identifiable biomarkers do not yet exist for many psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. Or bipolar disorder?” Or anxiety?

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