Genetics and mental health Reference Self-awareness 
Child Mind Intitute
MARCH 24, 2025
Research shows that children with intellectual developmental disorder have a higher incidence of mental health problems than other kids, but they are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for them. Why are kids with IDD more at risk for mental health disorders?
Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
Understanding these hidden dynamics can facilitate reflection on psychiatric institutions and increase the awareness of the social and cultural factors embedded in mental health assessment. It refers to the task that the participants are expected to perform: to gather the necessary information to evaluate a patients symptoms.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2024
.” —Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955) W ith the mainstream media finally reporting that “ depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin ,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?
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. People hear something they can relate to, and they self-diagnose and/or treat themselves based on the worst case.
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2024
Mad in America has previously examined the problems with conflicts of interest in research but this time we extend that to look at the potential effect of COIs on diagnostic tools such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). However, journals continue to rely on self-reporting. Moore: Thank you so much.
Mad in America
JANUARY 1, 2024
At one time I thought that the FDA efficacy standard for psychiatric drug treatment of mental health problems has a lower standard than for general medicine, but later in my review of health research I found that in many cases this was not true (as I will discuss in Chapter 6).
Solara Mental Health
AUGUST 16, 2021
This highly focused mental state is what Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls flow. People, such as athletes, who experience flow regularly are more likely to develop positive traits, including higher self-esteem, better concentration, and general performance. Some people are better at this than others.
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