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Therapy Shorts 3: The Spectrum of Narcissism – From Healthy to Malignant

The Online Therapist

Discover "Therapy Shorts," a collection of quick insights and gentle nudges to help you along your healing journey. This week is about Narcissism. These posts, published twice per week with a short audio, provide bite-sized wisdom to help you grow and discover yourself. Join me as we investigate the small ways we can bring peace, clarity, and connection into our lives.

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Evening Rituals to Beat Burnout – A 15-Minute Self-Care Routine if You Feel Exhausted

Sanity Daily

Burnout Is Real And You’re Not Alone Have you ever collapsed into bed at night, too tired to even scroll through Instagram? You’re not alone. As a full-time professional, wellbeing entrepreneur and mum, I’ve been there totally wiped out, emotionally flat, and completely disconnected from myself. Whether you’re juggling motherhood, work stress, or just the mental load of everyday life, a simple 15-minute evening ritual self-care routine can help you reclaim your energy and recon

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Can Wellbutrin Help Ease Your Anxiety?

My Psychiatry

Anxiety affects millions of people each year, showing up in different ways like constant worry, panic attacks, or physical symptoms like racing heart or restlessness. While many treatments exist, one medication sometimes considered in certain cases is Wellbutrin. But can Wellbutrin really help with anxiety? What Is Wellbutrin? Wellbutrin is the brand name for bupropion, a prescription medication most commonly used to treat depression and to help people stop smoking.

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Less Time To Do More…. Psychotherapy On Acute Care Units

Real Psychiatry

Less Time To Do More. As part of my brief series on the role of psychotherapy in psychiatry I thought I would pull this book off my bookshelves and discuss it. It was published in 1993 and that was about the time I bought it. At that time, I had just finished working as the Medical Director of a CMHC and consulting at a local hospital and was about 4 years into my role as an acute care psychiatrist on an inpatient unit.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Anorexia in Middle Age and Beyond

The New York Times -- Mental Health

A growing number of older women are seeking treatment for eating disorders. Many have struggled without help for decades.

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A Philosophical Spark about the Fragility of Existence: A Response to Vincenzo Di Nicola

Psychiatric Times

Euthanasia risks becoming a symptom of burnout.

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Clinical research on psychedelics gets a boost from new study

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

As psychedelics gain traction as potential treatments for mental health disorders, an international study stands to improve the rigor and reliability of clinical research.

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Living Out Loud

Very Well Mind

From expert guidance to free resources to enlightening personal experiences, we're here to point you in the right direction to start getting the help you need this Pride Month.

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TikTok Bans #SkinnyTok After European Regulators Raise Concerns

The New York Times -- Mental Health

Officials in Europe worried that the app was glamorizing eating disorders. The ban is TikToks latest effort to counter criticism about its effect on teen mental health.

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Psychosis and loneliness: two struggles, one endless loop

The Mental Elf

A group of UCL MSc students reflect on a qualitative review looking at the experience of loneliness among people with psychosis, which makes actionable clinical suggestions to enhance connection and address isolation. The post Psychosis and loneliness: two struggles, one endless loop appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Anorexia in Middle Age and Beyond

The New York Times -- Mental Health

A growing number of older women are seeking treatment for eating disorders. Many have struggled without help for decades.

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Understanding the Levels of Autism

Child Mind Intitute

As the name implies, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a range of traits and challenges. It can impact how a child communicates, behaves, and interacts with others. When a child is diagnosed with autism, its natural for their family to want to know where they fall along that spectrum and how it will impact their life. This is especially true since it is such a broad diagnosis that ranges from kids who are hyperverbal but socially awkward to those who are nonverbal and will require lifel

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Working With Pediatricians and PCPs in the Assessment of Children's Mental Health: A New Guide

Psychiatric Times

The DSM-5-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health provides a wide array of cases to instruct clinicians on the best practices for treating child and adolescent mental health problems.

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The Hidden Costs of Fitness Trackers: Mental Health Risks Emerging in 2025

Harmony United Psychiatric Care

The Hidden Costs of Fitness Trackers: Mental Health Risks Emerging in 2025 In 2025, fitness trackers will be everywhere: on wrists, pockets, and clothing. Now more sophisticated than ever, these devices promise to optimize our health by tracking not only steps and calories but also stress, anxiety, and sleep.

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Whither Psychiatry? Faster, Higher, Stronger—Together

Psychiatric Times

Taking a page from the Olympics, psychiatry needs to work faster, higher, and stronger--together.

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Midlife Women With Perimenopause Suffer From a ‘Lack of Awareness’ When It Comes To Disordered Eating

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Sue Cody’s decades-long battle with an eating disorder began when she was 22 years old and in love. That was when she suddenly became self-conscious about her figure. … That prompted Gemma Sharp, the director of Consortium for Research in Eating Disorders, to develop anonline resourcefor health professionals and those impacted by a midlife eating disorder. “Often the stories we’ve heard are people reaching out for support for eating issues in midlife and being met with, &

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Feasibility and preliminary findings of the digital self-management program

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 2 June 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Sri Padma Sari, Faith Martin, Deborah Lycett, Andy Turner

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TIFT #126: Understanding and Working With Motivation

How Psychiatry Works

In a recent psychotherapy coaching session, an experienced therapist brought up the problem of a client who seemed to be moving away from the therapy, disengaging. She was afraid he would drop out. In thinking about it, first we applied the consultant’s cardinal rule: “It’s staring you in the face and it’s about the relationship.

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The Rampant Reach of Pharma’s Hidden Hand

Mad in America

From Patients for Affordable Drugs : “The influence of pharmaceutical companies on patient advocacy organizations is well-documented. Major drug companies and their trade associations pour millions into lobbying, political contributions, and funding for front groups masquerading as patient advocates all to protect their profits and block reforms that would lower drug prices.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

I n this article I will be proposing an early framework for a mental health intervention called depsychiatrization. Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. These processes are not, in themselves, entirely novel, as they have been a part of many alternative movements throughout time.