Mad in America

MAY 9, 2025

In a recent study , researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found that optimism predicted response to antidepressant drugs. The researchers measured both baseline (pre-treatment) optimism and changes in optimism over time. They found that both of these measures correlated with antidepressant drug response. Our results suggest that baseline optimism and increases in optimism during treatment are associated with increased likelihood of SSRI treatment response in MDD, th

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 9, 2025

Awais Aftab, MD, explores the many aspects of psychiatry through engaging interviews that challenge traditional views and advocate for a more inclusive dialogue. Check out this review of his new book.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2025

This year, I learned to name the hurricane Borderline, they call it. A diagnosis sharp as a scalpel cutting through the fog of whats wrong with me? For years, I hid its tremors in the hollows of solitude, mistook my silence for stillness but quiet storms still flood. Then, you: a single struck match in a room Id sealed with gasoline. Suddenly, every text left unanswered was a funeral.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 9, 2025

Research reveals that IV haloperidol and ziprasidone are safe for treating delirium in patients that are critically ill, showing minimal impact on QTc intervals.

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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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Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

As readers of this blog know I am not high on cannabis. That is based on my experience as an acute care psychiatrist and an addiction psychiatrist. That real world experience was associated with treating hundreds of people for exacerbations of preexisting psychotic disorders as well as seeing psychosis develop in people with no risk factors of family history of psychosis.

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Very Well Mind

MAY 9, 2025

For three weeks, I replaced my traditional afternoon coffee with a greens powder to see if it could help boost my energy. Here's how it went.

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ADDitude

MAY 9, 2025

One of the greatest gifts you can give your child is a strong understanding of their ADHD brain. The more your child understands about their brain wiring and systems for internal and external information, the greater their self-awareness, confidence, and self-advocacy skills. Use the examples below to help you explain ADHD to your child in easy-to-understand language that diminishes shame and accentuates strengths.

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Very Well Mind

MAY 9, 2025

A relationship coach shares the signs it might be time to call off the wedding, with signs to look out for, and financial and logistical steps to consider before walking down the aisle.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 9, 2025

Stay informed with this week's highlights, including more on dementia prevention, a treatment for alcohol use disorder, National Nurses Week, and finding joy.

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Asian Journal of Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

Publication date: Available online 8 May 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Erma Pratiwi Nufi, Riza Amalia, Ria Angin, Ronal Surya Aditya, Romika Rahayu

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 9, 2025

"He says that even when hes driving to the mall in his Isuzu Trooper with a gang of his friends, letting rap music pour over them Like a boiling Jacuzzi full of ballpeen hammers, even then he feels Buried alive, captured and suffocated in the folds Of the thick satin quilt of America.

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Child Mind Intitute

MAY 9, 2025

Im only here because my grandma made me come here. When Brandon Jones was a public school counselor in Minneapolis, he heard those words regularly from a 12-year-old Black male student who wore a tough exterior amid a dysfunctional home life. But after three or four months of therapy sessions, Jones says, the young man stopped mentioning it. I remember I asked him, Why are you still coming here?

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2025

Content warning: this story contains graphic details of self-injury and suicide. W hen Polly left home, she wore a straitjacket over a light cotton housedress of pale yellow scattered with wildflowers. She liked to wear that dress around the house, with her black penny loafers and white ankle socks, but she never wore it outside, at least not beyond the backyard.

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