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Still the Government’s best-kept secret? Access to Work for people with mental health difficulties

Centre for Mental Health

The Government’s recent consultation on its plans to reform social security and employment support for disabled people included many controversial and some very worrying proposals. Among the areas being consulted on was the Access to Work scheme, by which the Government funds ‘reasonable adjustments’ to workplaces for disabled employees. We asked people who had experience of Access to Work, both as clients and as Individual Placement and Support (IPS) employment specialists, about their views an

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First Patient Dosed in Phase 2b Study of GlyphAllo for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, With or Without Anxious Stress

Psychiatric Times

Seaport Therapeutics initiates a pivotal study for GlyphAllo, a potential breakthrough treatment for major depressive disorder, with or without anxious stress.

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Hurricane PTSD in Florida: The Silent Mental Health Crisis After the Storm

Harmony United Psychiatric Care

Florida’s unique coastal geography makes it especially vulnerable to hurricanes — a reality many residents face year after year. While the physical destruction is immediately visible in shattered homes and broken communities, the psychological toll often goes unnoticed. Survivors frequently struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression long after the storm has passed.

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Advancing PTSD Treatment: What's Taken So Long?

Psychiatric Times

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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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Can Medication Affect Your Sex Life? What Sex Therapists Want You to Know

Zencare

Published on July 17, 2025 by Zencare Team. Written by Willow Health. Can medication affect your sex life? The short answer is yes. Some medications can affect sexual desire or performance. This includes medications for anxiety, depression, and high blood pressure. How do medications impact your sex life? Medications can lead to issues like low libido, erectile dysfunction (ED), arousal issues, and more.

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Grandparents and Grandchildren: A Psychiatrist and His Granddaughter Share Their Relationship Implications for Mental Health

Psychiatric Times

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If We Want to Make America Healthy Again, We Are Doing the Wrong Thing

Psychiatric Times

Proposed budget cuts threaten mental health services, risking patient care and community stability while exacerbating existing disparities in access to treatment.

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Tai chi, yoga, and jogging rival pills for beating insomnia

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Yoga, Tai Chi, walking, and jogging may be some of the best natural remedies for improving sleep and tackling insomnia, according to a large analysis comparing various treatments. While cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) remains effective, exercise-based approaches—especially Tai Chi—were shown to deliver significant improvements in total sleep time, efficiency, and reducing how long people stay awake after falling asleep.

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Key outputs from Attune project on adverse childhood experiences and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

The ATTUNE project, focused on understanding adolescent mental health and childhood adversities through the use of participatory arts methods, is due to conclude at the end of August 2025.

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“How I Halt the ADHD Shame Cycle in Its Tracks”

ADDitude

As I cleaned out my desk drawer recently, I stumbled upon a collection of pictures I intended to share but never did: school photos, holiday cards, baby pictures. Sweet moments now engulfed in flames of guilt. Not a single picture had ever been mailed out as I had planned. The shame was immediate. I thought back to the wedding thank-you notes, Christmas cards of years past, and other items that I likewise never got around to mailing.

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AWARE and INSPIRE: school mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms

The Mental Elf

The Education for Wellbeing programme, funded by the Department for Education, was one of England’s largest school-based mental health research initiatives. It included two major trials (AWARE and INSPIRE) testing universal mental health approaches in schools between 2018 and 2024. What did these big studies really find? The post AWARE and INSPIRE: school mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Understanding Relationship OCD: When Doubt Becomes an Obsession

Lightwork

Relationship OCD (ROCD) is a specific type of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder that focuses on romantic relationships. It involves a continuous cycle of unwanted thoughts and compulsive actions centered around your love life. If you have ROCD, you might find yourself constantly questioning your feelings for your partner: “Do I really love them?” “Are they truly the right person for me?

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Starting High School

Child Mind Intitute

Going from middle school to high school is a transition that stretches through the whole year — for parents and teens, alike. “I think it makes sense to think of freshman year as distinct from the other three,” says Jenna Klorfein, LCSW, who was a social worker in a New York City high school. “There’s a general kind of fish-out-of-water feeling, like, ‘I’m trying to make sense of all of this.

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The 6 Best Online Therapy Services for Kids and Families, According to a Therapist

Very Well Mind

Online counseling for kids can help your child through various concerns, such as mental health, bullying, family issues, and more. Here are the best ones we tested and researched.

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Pills, Profits & the Untold Story: A Conversation With Robert Whitaker

Mad in America

Katinka Newman interviews Robert Whitaker for the Med Free Mental Fitness podcast. “Welcome to the Med Free Mental Fitness podcast, hosted by Katinka Blackford Newman, founder of the not-for-profit Antidepressant Risks org. This episode dives into the overlooked issue of the long-term effects of psychiatric medications and explores why mental illness and disability rates are rising despite extensive treatment and expenditure.

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Rexulti for PTSD: “Discordant Results” Flagged by FDA Reviewers

Psychiatric Times

FDA reviewers raise concerns over Rexulti's efficacy for PTSD, highlighting discordant study results ahead of the advisory committee meeting.

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Therapy Shorts 15: Parent or Partner? The Blurred Lines of Emotional Incest

The Online Therapist

This week is about Recovering from Narcissistic Parenting. 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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Social Media Use in Older Adults May Promote Positive Psychosocial Outcomes

Psychiatric Times

Social media use among older adults shows potential benefits for reducing loneliness and improving psychosocial well-being, though results vary across studies.

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Certain chronic health conditions associated with increased risk of dementia – new study

Department of Psychiatry News

Developing cardiovascular, mental health and neurological-related illnesses before the age of 70 is associated with a greater risk of dementia later in life, with the more of these conditions accumulated the greater the risk, according to a new study by the University of Oxford.

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Brain Disorders or Problems with Living? How Research on “Mental Illness” Went Awry

Mad in America

B y the end of the 1970’s, psychiatry was facing a crisis of identity that threatened its very existence. Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. The Rosenhan Experiment had convinced many that psychiatrists could not distinguish the sane from the insane.

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What Does a Life Coach Do – And Why Might You Need One?

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

At some point, we all feel stuck, whether it’s in our career, relationships, or even just our daily routines. That’s when many people start exploring options for support. And if you’ve ever typed “ life coach near me ” or “online life coach” into Google, you’re definitely not alone. But what does a life coach do, really? And how are they different from therapists or mentors?

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Member Spotlight: 2025 APS Spence Award Recipient Chaz Firestone on the Foundations of Perception

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Image above: Firestone and the members of the Perception & Mind Laboratory, 2024. Chaz Firestone is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Perception & Mind Laboratory. Firestone is one of seven recipients of the 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions.