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One researcher shares her experience studying and living with bipolar disorder

NPR - Mental Health

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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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Mad in America

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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Therapy Shorts 2: How Conflict Can Strengthen Your Relationship Bond

The Online Therapist

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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How the Therapy Generation Chose to Be Childless

The New York Times -- Mental Health

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

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

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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Treatment Comparison: Somnolence/Sedation With Dopamine Partial Agonists vs D2 Receptor Antagonists

Psychiatric Times

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

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Exposure to Antidepressants in the Womb Makes for Sad, Scared Adolescents

Mad in America

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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Maternal Mental Health Has Declined, Study Says

The New York Times -- Mental Health

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

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California Students Recognized for Designing Digital Interventions in Support of Teen Mental Health and Wellness  

Child Mind Intitute

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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Mapping Identity Through Moonlight: A Narrative Therapy Reflection

Mad in America

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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Therapy Shorts No 1: When Do We Truly Know We’ve Found The One?

The Online Therapist

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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Fetterman Says His Openness on Mental Health Issues Is ‘Weaponized”

The New York Times -- Mental Health

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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From a Dysfunctional Neuromodulator to a Dysfunctional Circuit

Psychiatric Times

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

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From EMPOWER to Exercise: What Actually Helps Older Adults Quit Benzos?

Mad in America

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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5 Things People Do in the First 10 Minutes of Their Day That Make a Big Difference

Very Well Mind

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

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Why Anxiety Symptoms Aren’t the Enemy (Health Anxiety Help)

The Anxiety Guy

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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New Data: Cariprazine Adjunctive to Antidepressant Therapy for Anhedonia Symptoms

Psychiatric Times

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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Safety or System? – Seeking Soteria

Mad in America

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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Compartmentalization In Psychotherapy

Real Psychiatry

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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How to Trade Your Teen’s Lies for Trust

ADDitude

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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Understanding and Overcoming Negative Preconceptions About MAOIs

Psychiatric Times

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

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Alan Cassels: Are We Looking In The Right Place For Answers To Violent Attacks?

Mad in America

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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When the Body Gets Stuck in Survival Mode

The Anxiety Guy

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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Anticholinergics are associated with worse cognition: it’s time to take a serious look at our prescribing

The Mental Elf

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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More Connected Than Ever Before? Online Dating and the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Psychiatric Times

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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ADHD-Obesity Link Weakens in Big Cities: New Research

ADDitude

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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Antipsychiatrie et droits des patient-es. Mouvements contestataires et crise institutionnelle à Genève (1972-1989), Virginie Stucki, Georg éditeur, 2025

History Psychiatry

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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The Police Can’t Solve Every Problem

The New York Times -- Mental Health

More and more communities have concluded that the police cant be expected to solve every problem and are shifting some of the load to others.

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Positive Phase 2 Results on NBI-1117568 for Schizophrenia Presented at 2025 ASCP Annual Meeting

Psychiatric Times

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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15 Times You Shouldn't Feel Bad About Breaking Up With Someone

Very Well Mind

Feeling guilty about breaking up with your partner? Learn about the situations where it's totally okay to let go and move on without beating yourself up.

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Real-Time Research: How Experience Sampling Method is Changing Psychology

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

How do you design a study that captures human experience as it unfolds in real time? In this episode, Under the Cortex explores the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a powerful approach for studying psychological processes. Host zge Grcanl Fischer-Baum is joined by Jessica Fritz from Osnabruck University, and Marilyn Piccirillo from the Rutgers Addiction Research Center and Brain Health Institute, who are among the coauthors of a new article published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psyc

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“We Do the Work. Outside. And Sometimes It Rains.”

ADDitude

Sometimes it rains in Northern California, where I practice psychiatry for adults with ADHD. The rain helps the grass and trees grow, a lovely metaphor for the therapeutic process of receiving comprehensive ADHD treatment and growing slowly into a new, relatively unknown, more mature self. But its also the simple reality of my office. It is outside, surrounded by trees, with chairs nestled in nature.

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Social Psychiatry and Culturally Relevant Psychotherapy at the APA Annual Meeting

Psychiatric Times

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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How meal timing helped me overcome bipolar episodes

Chipur

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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Are ‘mental health A&Es’ really the answer to long waits for urgent care?

Centre for Mental Health

Last weekend, NHS England announced via The Times newspaper an intention to create a network of mental health emergency departments, separate from existing A&E services. On the face of it, it looks like a good idea. Many existing emergency departments are not safe or suitable places for someone facing a mental health crisis. People in a mental health crisis face much longer waits in A&E than others, and many report negative responses from staff in mainstream crisis services.

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Psychological distress over 30 years in Great Britain: the times they are a changin’ (or are they?)

The Mental Elf

Niamh Dooley summarises a 2023 paper that investigated trends in psychological distress in the UK across a 28-year period, using data from three representative surveys. The post Psychological distress over 30 years in Great Britain: the times they are a changin (or are they?) appeared first on National Elf Service.

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The Enduring Impact of Early Adversity on Psychosis Risk

Psychiatric Times

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

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