Zencare

JUNE 9, 2025

I know I’ve diagnosed myself with a rare genetic disease a time or two only to discover it’s just a gas. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are like a symptom checker for mental health conditions. Or they present to a mental health professional and insist on a particular diagnosis.

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My Psychiatry

MAY 20, 2025

Bipolar disorder is a complex mental health condition that affects millions of people across the world, including many here in Florida. Education about the disorder and family therapy can also be beneficial, providing loved ones with the tools to offer appropriate support. Reach out to a licensed mental health provider.

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 52

Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Citizen scientists will use Healthy Brain Network data on physical activity and internet use; competition sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA New York, NY The youth mental health crisis has many causes, but one rising concern is technology. The internet is a vital tool for education, entertainment, and connection.

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Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 52

Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 17, 2025

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that can cause people to lose touch with reality and see, hear, or believe things that arent real or true. Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder that affects an individuals ability to distinguish reality from fantasy. What is schizophrenia? What causes schizophrenia?

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Genetics and mental health Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Lightwork

JUNE 5, 2025

Understanding High-Functioning Anxiety in Women High-functioning anxiety presents a unique paradox in women’s mental health. Recognizing these symptoms early allows you to take proactive steps toward managing your mental health.

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Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Mental health advocacy 52

Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

They are often viewed by other children, adults and social agencies as “bad” or delinquent, rather than mentally ill. Many factors may lead to a child developing conduct disorder, including brain damage, child abuse or neglect, genetic vulnerability, school failure, and traumatic life experiences.

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Education 40

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 71

Now Psych

MAY 13, 2024

Understanding selective mutism is essential for parents, educators, and mental health professionals who work with children. Causes The exact cause of SM is not fully understood, but it is believed to be a combination of genetic, environmental, and developmental factors.

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Genetics and mental health Anxiety disorders Aging and mental health Autism spectrum 52

Lightwork

MARCH 27, 2025

Introduction Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects millions of people worldwide, yet remains one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions. Facts About Living with OCD Living with OCD means navigating a complex mental health condition that affects every aspect of daily life.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Self-awareness 52

Lightwork

MAY 1, 2025

Research shows women develop substance dependencies faster than men and experience more severe health consequences from prolonged substance use. Addressing Mental Health in Women’s Recovery Journey Mental health care plays a vital role in women’s addiction recovery.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Insurance 52

Mad in America

APRIL 19, 2025

In a recent article, Turkheimer and Greer critiqued the overblown conclusions drawn from a large, long-running, high-profile genetic study, Spit For Science (S4S). They add, Most of the papers ignore the tiny effects, reaching optimistic conclusions about the prospects for future genetic explanations of alcohol use.

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Genetics and mental health Technology Self-awareness Education 125

Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects an individual’s perception of reality. Understanding Psychosis Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and behave. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking.

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Bipolar disorder Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trauma and the brain 52

Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 4, 2025

Risk factors include genetics, environment, and psychological conditions. Understanding the Science of Addiction Is Addiction a Mental Illness? You may experience negative physical and mental health consequences directly related to alcohol and drug use. What Is Drug Addiction and How Can it be Treated?

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Genetics and mental health Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group therapy 52

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Family history is one piece of the puzzle that helps clinicians and educators better understand children and what they need emotionally and academically. It also helps educators better understand a childs strengths as well as their needs for support. Try and remove blame as much as possible, advises Dr. Dewey.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Education Technology 52

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access). In this sense, everything is somehow genetic.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Autism spectrum 124

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. Little has been published on the subject in mainstream psychiatry journals and even less is part of the formal education process for medical students and psychiatry residents.

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Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Bipolar disorder 135

Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Global mental health Poverty and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 116

Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Resilience and coping Global mental health 143

ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

The MAHA Report , spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Dialectical Behavior Therapy 111

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to generalise.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. Then, the doctors graduate, and much of the continuing medical education they receive is sponsored by pharmaceutical interests. I started writing books.

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Real Psychiatry

APRIL 18, 2025

Two questionnaires were administered at baseline one to look at psychosocial determinants and risk factors for mental illness and the other for substance use history. Educating the patient and their family about the psychotogenic potential of cannabis and referral for substance use treatment is also required.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 23, 2025

Yet, it persists, and that can weigh on families trying to make the best decisions about their childrens health. A brief history of autism Autism was first identified in the 1940s, but it didnt become a formal diagnosis until it appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-3, in 1980.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 141

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. After opening my private practice, one of my specialties was perinatal mental health, supporting women during pregnancy and postpartum.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. On Whitaker’s Mad in America website there are two more reviews of Insel’s book.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop. There are no studies, not yet.

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Aging and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain 139

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. Depression is really more about the energy whether its mental energy or physical energy to make an effective response. The first part is genetics. What is the connection?

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Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore: We’re here to talk about some of your experiences of the mental health system and polypharmacy, experiences which are beautifully captured in your book, May Cause Side Effects , published by Central Recovery Press in 2022. He’s more educated than them on the subject at this point. Everything is so reactive.

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ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. The review concluded that most of the studies that exist on hormones and mental health outcomes were at high risk for bias and involved many confounding factors. J Health Soc Behav.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. In most cases depressed lawyers, like most depressed individuals, have a genetic predisposition to the disorder. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D.

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Genetics and mental health Legal Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Child Mind Intitute

MAY 15, 2025

Headlines flip from breakthrough biomarker found one day to biological links debunked the next, leaving families, educators, and clinicians exasperated. For neuroscientists and mental-health professionals, it is not controversial that ADHD, autism, depression, PTSD, and related conditions have neurobiological roots.

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Bullet Psych

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Benefit can be found through education, reassurance, addressing triggers, creating a safe environment, and maintaining good sleep habits. IRT involves using mental imagery to modify and rehearse an improved outcome of a recurrent nightmare. There is amnesia for the experience. Management: For most cases, treatment is unnecessary.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 40

Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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