Tag: research
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The Courtroom in Your Head: Psychiatry Evaluates the Sovereign Citizen Movement
“Sovereign citizen” is a catchall phrase referring to a variety of anti-government individuals andgroups who share some common beliefs and behaviors. The organizations to which many sovereigncitizens belong have a variety of names: Moorish Nation, The Aware Group, Washitaw Nation, the NorthCarolina American Republic, Republic of United States of America, etc. The same views may…
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Pregnancy And Postpartum Disorders
Birth-related severe PTSD Mental Health America Pregnancy and the birth of a child can be a joyous and exciting time, but some women may struggle with their mental health as they transition to motherhood. Mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder may surface during or after pregnancy. Additionally, birth-related post-traumatic stress disorder or a severe but rare…
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Mindfulness
Kayla Zawislak, MSW, CADCAddiction Policy Forum Mindfulness is a tool that can benefit nearly anyone, whether in recovery or not. But for those of us in recovery, it is a particularly helpful tool that can reshape how our brain works and our thought patterns. It teaches us to stay in the moment by focusing only…
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Combating the Opioid Epidemic in New Hampshire
Representative Chris Pappas of New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District Note from the Publisher: Election time is coming up and living in an important primary state such as New Hampshire I wanted to share what Mr. Pappas considered one of our very important issues facing our state, addiction. Here is what is recognized and what efforts…
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Top 15 jobs for those who live with depression
John Riley & Asuria.au Living with depression I can speak from first hand knowledge that working in public environments can be very tough to function in and there are great jobs that we excel in. We want to support those with depression and aid them in finding good employment that works best for them. I…
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NIH to trial whether MAGIC MUSHROOMS can help smokers quit — in first federal study of psychedelics in 50 years
By CASSIDY MORRISON SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM A federally-funded study will test the power of magic mushrooms as a smoking cessation for long-term users. The $4million research grant marks the first allocation of Government money to study the medicinal benefits of psychedelics in 50 years. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, University of Alabama Birmingham, and New York University will launch…
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Transgender Kids and Gender Dysphoria
Supporting mental health in children with gender issues Writer: Caroline Miller Clinical Expert: Paul Mitrani, MD, PhD The experience of being transgender or gender nonconforming means that a person’s gender at birth (their assigned gender) does not match the gender they feel themselves to be (their affirmed gender). Young people who are transgender feel powerfully that they…
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Japan’s “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million
What type of Mental Illness is this and is there a solution? Collected and published by John Riley and brought to you by Nippon.com & frontiersin.org Hikikomori has been defined by a Japanese expert group as having the following characteristics: (1) spending most of the time at home; (2) no interest in going to school or…
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CDC says more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, setting ‘staggering’ record
Mike Stobbe, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday. The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes. It marked a 15…
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The Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression
By Beth Salcedo, MD – NAMI When a person experiences two or more illnesses at the same time, those illnesses are considered “comorbid.” This concept has become the rule, not the exception, in many areas of medicine, and certainly in psychiatry. Up to 93% of Medicare dollars are spent on patients with four or more comorbid disorders.…