Tue.May 27, 2025

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Mapping Identity Through Moonlight: A Narrative Therapy Reflection

Mad in America

W hen a close family member compared the collaged moon boards I was using to process a difficult time in my life to that meme of the man frantically mapping red strings on the wall, I didnt laugh. I had just told them I was on the edge of autistic burnout. That I was struggling with emotional flooding. That I had been formally diagnosed with adjustment disorder and was pretty sure I had cPTSD.

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Maternal Mental Health Has Declined, Study Says

The New York Times -- Mental Health

New research involving nearly 200,000 mothers found that one in 12 rated her mental health as fair or poor.

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Therapy Shorts No 1: When Do We Truly Know We’ve Found The One?

The Online Therapist

Welcome to "Therapy Shorts," a collection of quick insights and gentle nudges to help you along your healing journey. These posts, published twice per week with 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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Bringing mental health care to the criminal justice system: The development of Mental Health Treatment Requirements

Centre for Mental Health

Im a nurse who has spent the past 15 years determined to bring hope, care, and empathy into the criminal justice system, by focusing on addressing the underlying reasons people enter the system. My goal was simple: to enable the delivery of appropriate mental health support for those who need it as part of a community order, rather than resorting to prison or community orders that fail to address the root causes of criminal behaviour.

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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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From a Dysfunctional Neuromodulator to a Dysfunctional Circuit

Psychiatric Times

Explore the complex role of dopamine in schizophrenia, its impact on symptoms, and potential therapeutic advancements.

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How to Trade Your Teen’s Lies for Trust

ADDitude

Q: My teen with ADHD habitually lies, and it worries me. How can I stop this behavior? Poor impulse control can cause teens with ADHS to make poor choices and lie about those choices. Lying stems from avoidance , denial, or a desire to skirt punishment. But lying compounds the problem. Theres the lie, and then theres the original problem that caused the lie.

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ADHD-Obesity Link Weakens in Big Cities: New Research

ADDitude

May 27, 2025 ADHD raises the risk of obesity, but its effect is dampened for people living in large cities, according to two new studies. Young adults with combined-type ADHD are more likely than their non-ADHD peers to carry excess weight around their midsection and to have an unhealthy waist-to-height ratio (known as the body mass index or BMI), according to a new cross-sectional study published in American Journal of Human Biology. 1 Obesity-related health conditions , such as heart disease a

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7 Ways to Reconnect with Your Inner Self if you are Feeling lost in Motherhood

Sanity Daily

Motherhood is beautiful. But let’s be honest it’s also exhausting and identity-consuming. You go from being someone with hobbies, goals, and a skincare routine to a human napkin, snack-fetcher, and crisis manager. Somewhere between diaper changes and school pickups, you whisper to yourself, “Who even am I anymore?” “Am I even doing things right?

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Rally for Mental Health: Boldly Going Where Psychiatry Has Never Gone Before!

Psychiatric Times

Psychiatrists united in Los Angeles for a rally, advocating for mental health funding amidst growing concerns over service cuts and societal challenges.

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Significant declines in maternal mental health across US

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

A new study reveals a concerning decline in self-reported mental health among mothers in the United States between 2016 and 2023. The study also found modest but measurable declines in self-reported physical health during the same period.

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Unpacking Truths Behind Mental Health Trends

The New York Times -- Mental Health

In her Psych 101 column, Christina Caron debunks mental health misinformation and offers readers solutions to common challenges.

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Current Use of Antipsychotic Medications: A Conversation With Phillip R. Muskin, MD

Psychiatric Times

Phillip R. Muskin, MD, discusses the complexities of prescribing antipsychotics, emphasizing patient collaboration and the importance of evaluating treatment strategies.

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On discovering yourself after motherhood: It’s ok to miss your old life.

Zencare

Published on May 27, 2025 by Zencare Team. Written by Repose. Its a common occurrence at our practice, as tears welled up in her eyes, a new mom looks to their therapist and asks, Does it make me a bad mother if I miss who I was before I became a mom? I slowly nodded with deep understanding. This feeling is incredibly common but still, its something so many mothers feel ashamed to say out loud.

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TBG U: Understanding Entrepreneurship

Therapy for Black Girls

Alyssa Ashley, founder of In Real Life Skin, was raised in a traditional West Indian household where self-care was embraced as a holistic lifestyle rather than a simple routine. From a young age, she incorporated natural ingredients like pomegranate extract, magnesium, and vitamin E into her diet and skincare, discovering their powerful benefits for both physical and emotional well-being.

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Top Reasons to Visit Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Clinic for Treatment of Mood Disorders in Kolkata

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

Top Reasons to Visit Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Clinic for Treatment of Mood Disorders in Kolkata As a parent, have you noticed your child withdrawing from their usual activities or struggling with frequent mood changes? Or perhaps youve seen your spouse, sibling, or even yourself, feeling unusually low or irritable, day after day. Its heartbreaking to watch someone you love wrestle with emotions they cannot fully control or explain.

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Exploring the impact of hostile environment policies on psychological distress of ethnic minority groups in the UK

The Mental Elf

UCL MSc students consider research showing that the highest impact of hostile environment policies was noticed among Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups. This evidence suggests that interdisciplinary collaboration is needed to prevent psychological distress. The post Exploring the impact of hostile environment policies on psychological distress of ethnic minority groups in the UK appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Why Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee is Salt Lake City’s Leading Psychiatrist

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

Why Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee is Salt Lake City’s Leading Psychiatrist As a parent, a caregiver, or someone personally navigating emotional or psychological struggleshave you ever wondered where you could turn for truly understanding and trustworthy mental health care? Have you ever sat beside a loved one who is struggling and thought, I wish we had someone who could really listen and help us through this?

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The Healthier the Food, the Faster It Goes Bad. Or So People Think.

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

A healthy diet is a goal for many consumers, but arecent studyfound something that can deter people from eating more healthful food: They worry about it spoiling. … There are so many different types of labels food manufacturers use, and consumers are unclear about what they all mean, says Brent McFerran , a marketing professor at Simon Fraser Universitys Beedie School of Business and a co-author of the study.

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Gender differences in resilience among patients with schizophrenia

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 27 May 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Sri Padma Sari, Halimah Wenny Yulina Astuti, Haipeng Liu, Andy Turner, Faith Martin

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Sex Hormones in Women Impact ADHD Symptoms, Medication Efficacy: Study

ADDitude

May 27, 2025 ADHD symptoms are impacted by changes in sex hormone levels in females across the lifespan, finds a new systematic review published in the Journal of Attention Disorders. 1 The review included 11 studies that investigated puberty, pregnancy, postpartum, and the menstrual cycle and tracked changes in symptomology and in the efficacy of ADHD medication during these times.