NPR - Mental Health

MAY 28, 2025

Around 40 million people around the world have bipolar disorder, which involves cyclical swings between moods: from depression to mania. Kay Redfield Jamison is one of those people. She's also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has written extensively about the topic, from medical textbooks to personal memoirs. Today on Short Wave, she joins us to talk about the diagnosis process, treating and managing bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

J ust about everyone believes that depressionthe #1 psychiatric diagnosisis explained in the same way as physical illnesses; that is, that depression, too, is of genetic/physiological origin. Many people also believe the psychiatric drugs prescribed to treat depression are effective because they correct a verified biological causation for depression, a chemical imbalance in the brain.

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The Online Therapist

MAY 28, 2025

Discover "Therapy Shorts," a collection of quick insights and gentle nudges to help you along your healing journey. This week is about Stages of a Relationship. 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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The New York Times -- Mental Health

MAY 30, 2025

Are millennials fears of failing their children outweighing their desire to have them?

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 29, 2025

Cariprazine shows promise as a long-term adjunctive treatment for anhedonia in major depressive disorder, according to new poster data presented at the ASCP Annual Meeting.

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Mad in America

MAY 28, 2025

In a new study , researchers found that those exposed to SSRI antidepressants in utero had a hyperactive amygdala and were more fearful and depressed as adolescents. This was true in both mice and humans. Maternal depression did not explain the effect. In mice and humans, early-life SSRI exposure alters the offsprings brain structure and is associated with anxiety and depression-related behaviors beginning in puberty, the researchers write.

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The New York Times -- Mental Health

MAY 24, 2025

The first-term Pennsylvania Democrat said his openness about his mental health issues has been weaponized against him, prompting him to start showing up for votes and hearings he considers useless.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 28, 2025

Learn more about the critical link between early adversity and psychosis, and the need for targeted interventions and preventive measures.

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Mad in America

MAY 27, 2025

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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The Online Therapist

MAY 27, 2025

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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The New York Times -- Mental Health

MAY 27, 2025

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

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 29, 2025

Recent research reveals dopamine partial agonists significantly reduce somnolence in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia compared with D2 receptor antagonists.

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Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

A recent article published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society examines the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing the use of benzodiazepine receptor agonists (BZRA), commonly known as benzos, among older adults and individuals with cognitive impairment. The findings indicated that while some interventions were successful in helping patients discontinue these medications, the success rates varied significantly, ranging from as low as 9% to as high as 100%.

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Centre for Mental Health

MAY 27, 2025

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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Child Mind Intitute

MAY 29, 2025

Youth-led solutions support healthier tech use and peer wellness Sacramento, CA As young people navigate the complexities of the digital age, a new wave of solutions is emerging designed by youth, for youth. Today, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the Child Mind Institute , with support from the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) , proudly announced the winners of the first Single-Session Intervention (SSI) Challenge.

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ADDitude

MAY 30, 2025

May 30, 2025 Many of us with ADHD, autism, and other forms of neurodivergence only started to bring our whole selves to work quite recently. As a result of neurodiversity training and DEI efforts, we began to unmask. We spoke more openly about executive dysfunction and sensory needs. We asked for accommodations, formally and informally. But today, as DEI programs fade and inclusion efforts stall, many of us feel a familiar pressure returning.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2025

From The New Westminster Times : “In the aftermath of one of the worst days in the history of Vancouver, a recent Canadian Press headline stated the obvious: Eby warns against jumping to conclusions about Lapu-Lapu suspect’s care before alleged attack. “ Wise adviceexcept, when it comes to psychiatric medications and acts of violence, silence and denial only fuel dangerous assumptions.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 27, 2025

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

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Very Well Mind

MAY 28, 2025

We talked to five different people about their morning routines. Here's some surprising and not-so-surprising practices.

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The Anxiety Guy

MAY 26, 2025

Anxiety symptoms aren’t the enemy, and today I’m going to show you why. But the realization often isn’t enough, we need concrete principles to live by. Friends, it’s time for true health anxiety help now, enjoy the podcast: If youve ever felt like a prisoner in your own body constantly scanning, questioning, and fearing every little twitch or twinge, youre not alone.

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Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

From Dr. David Healy’s blog: “Samizdat has just been graced with Gene Larkins Seeking Soteria accompanied by Bill James fabulous artwork (graced is the best word). For reasons that will become clear, the title of this post picks up on the last post Unsafe Safety. Gene can be heard talking about Soteria with colleagues on a Mad in America Soteria Webinar.

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ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

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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Psychiatric Times

MAY 29, 2025

In this CME article, learn more about the essential role of MAOIs in treating resistant depression and anxiety.

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The Anxiety Guy

MAY 30, 2025

Sometimes its not that youre unmotivated, lazy, or broken. Sometimes your body is just stuck in survival mode and its doing its best to protect you. This can look like chronic fatigue. That heavy, hard-to-lift fog that no amount of rest seems to fix. It can show up as anxiety, where your heart races without warning, or your chest tightens before youve even gotten out of bed.

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Chipur

MAY 27, 2025

Living with bipolar disorder means navigating a lot of ups and downs - sometimes literally. While therapy and medication play major roles, one factor that often gets overlooked is how food timing affects your mood. Not what you eat - although that matters - but when you eat.

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Sanity Daily

MAY 27, 2025

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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Psychiatric Times

MAY 28, 2025

Online dating transforms connections but often leads to loneliness and mental health issues. How can we encourage safer, more meaningful interactions?

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ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

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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The Mental Elf

MAY 29, 2025

Eleanor Dawkins explores a new review and meta-analysis suggesting that cognitive impairment is linked with anticholinergic medication in psychosis, providing grounds for more careful monitoring and review of medications. The post Anticholinergics are associated with worse cognition: its time to take a serious look at our prescribing appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Very Well Mind

MAY 30, 2025

Location sharing makes it possible to know your partner's every movebut is it a good move for your relationship to have it turned on at all times?

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 29, 2025

Neurocrine Biosciences reveals promising phase 2 results for NBI-1117568, a novel treatment for schizophrenia, showing significant symptom improvement over placebo.

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ADDitude

MAY 29, 2025

Pathological Demand Avoidance: Key Takeaways PDA is a behavioral profile characterized by intense, anxiety-driven resistance to everyday demands and expectations. Children with PDA have extremely reactive nervous systems that prime them to interpret requests and expectations as threats. Alongside this pressure-sensitivity lies an intense need for equity and autonomy.

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Psychiatry Online

MAY 28, 2025

Psychiatric News, Volume 60, Issue 6 , June 1, 2025 June 30, 2025.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 30, 2025

I had this thought after my post about supportive psychotherapy in psychiatry. In the experience of most psychiatrists, it plays a major role. The related questions are why isnt that role acknowledged and why are psychiatrists even reluctant to use the term. I had the thought that it is due to compartmentalization and before I research that concept to see if anything has been written about it - I thought I would write down my observations.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 28, 2025

Vincenzo Di Nicola discusses the importance of pluralism in social psychiatry and the need for culturally relevant psychotherapy at the 2025 APA Annual Meeting.

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History Psychiatry

MAY 29, 2025

Dear h-madness readers, we are pleased to present you this new book. On June 29, 1980, a young man was… Read more Antipsychiatrie et droits des patient-es.

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