NPR - Mental Health

MAY 13, 2025

A few years ago, "A" experienced a psychotic episode. His boss made a decision that saved his life.

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Critical Psychiatry

MAY 13, 2025

Penelope Camplings book On the brink with patients stories from her life in psychiatry starts at the end of the asylum years, when many of us, as she says, were optimistic about the development of community care. But as I keep saying (see eg. previous post ), mental health care, like much of NHS provision, has become too dysfunctional and fragmented.

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The New York Times -- Mental Health

MAY 13, 2025

Boys educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving.

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Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

I n the clean hallways of today’s mental health centers, a quiet change is taking shape. You won’t see big protests or new laws, but more people are starting to see that the main way we treat mental healthfocusing on chemical imbalances and managing medshasn’t helped many folks who need real healing. This isn’t just a few stories; you can see it in the numbers: more people on disability, long-lasting health issues, and worse results over time even though we’ve had &

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Very Well Mind

MAY 13, 2025

Do We Underestimate How Much People Like Us?

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ADDitude

MAY 13, 2025

Some women at midlife adopt extreme measures to stay thin, perhaps because the hormonal changes of menopause have caused them to gain weight, or maybe a divorce has pushed them back into the dating scene. Whatever the reason, eating disorders in midlife and older women are not uncommon, yet they are under-recognized. In research examining eating disorder symptoms among women aged 45 to 61, body dissatisfaction was cited as a key risk factor. 1 I have seen this firsthand.

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Very Well Mind

MAY 13, 2025

The people we'd least expect to matter in our day-to-day can genuinely make us happier. Learn how weak ties can help us improve our mood and create new connections.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 13, 2025

Brigitte Robertson, MD, shares information on innovative, genetically targeted treatments for alcohol use disorder, aiming to personalize care and improve patient outcomes.

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My Psychiatry

MAY 13, 2025

If you find yourself tossing and turning at night, staring at the ceiling, or waking up much earlier than you planned, youre not alone. Insomnia is a common sleep issue, and for many people, anxiety is a major cause. But how are the two connectedand what can you do about it? What Is Insomnia? Insomnia means having trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early and not being able to go back to sleep.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 13, 2025

Hypersomnias are a complex set of sleep disorders. Proper sleep evaluations are crucial for accurate diagnosis.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MAY 13, 2025

Dr Lorcan Martin, President and Dr Joanne Fegan, Director Communications, had a very productive meeting on the 12 th May with Minister for Mental Health, Ms Mary Butler, TD., and members of her team. The meeting gave rise to positive engagement on a range of areas and topicsincluding the Mental Health Bill 2024 and potential amendments. The Bill is currently at the 3 rd stage of the legislative process.

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Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

From Josef Witt-Doerring’s YouTube Channel: “In this interview, David Carmichael shares his devastating experience with psychiatric medications, describing how Paxil triggered a drug-induced psychosis leading to unimaginable tragedy. His story is a chilling reminder of why informed consent is critical in healthcare today. Through painful honesty, David exposes the dangers hidden behind prescriptions and the systems failure to properly warn patients.” The post Father Kills Son B

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The Mental Elf

MAY 13, 2025

Dr Laura Naysmith summarises important new research on the mental health impacts of premature menopause. The post Mental health matters in premature menopause appeared first on National Elf Service.

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History Psychiatry

MAY 13, 2025

We are happy to share with hmadness readers the programme for the upcoming conference.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 13, 2025

When youre young, its hard to imagine your mother as a fully-realized person. Shes just Mom. As you get older, though, you might start to see your parents as humans, with joys, regrets and insecurities (like you). But how well do you actually know the woman you call Mom? And whens the last time you asked her a question that prompted a long, contemplative answer?

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 13, 2025

Do you have siblings? If so, what are your relationships with them like? How much do you think they have influenced you your personality, interests, beliefs and behavior? … Anyone raising more than one child, Damour says, or who has a sibling, intuitively knows that sibling relationships play a powerful role in affecting who we become. If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 13, 2025

For thousands of years, people have waited on karma to catch up with their good behavioror promised it would roll around for anyone who crossed them. The lure of karmic thinking is that if you do good things, positive outcomes will rain down on you, while the opposite is true for those who dont uphold the same standard of morals. In other words: You reap what you sow.

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