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The Power of Positive Choices and Taking Control

Personal empowerment and responsibility begin with the choice to engage with the internet and the content it offers.

fromwww.independent.co.uk

Why Insight Alone Does Not Heal

Insight opens the door to understanding, but integration and daily practice are essential for true healing.

Women in technology

Electric shock therapy for depression made me forget my wedding day'

The Independent covers critical issues like reproductive rights and mental health, emphasizing the importance of accessible journalism.

Cannabis

fromFortune

Hallucinogenics are illegal under federal law but that isn't stopping the FDA from fast tracking 3 psychedelic drugs to treat mental health | Fortune

Trump signed an executive order to expedite research on psychedelics for treating mental health conditions.

Relationships

Reassurance Is Not the Same as Repair

Daniel and Marcus's relationship, built on reliability, faced challenges due to mutual avoidance of difficult emotions, leading to disconnection.

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Humor

Welcome to the Anxiety Club

Developing a Helpful Long-Term Perspective After Psychosis

Short-term thinking and emotions are common in early recovery from trauma, but developing a long-term perspective is essential for healing.

Medicine

How to Create a Psychiatric Advance Directive

Medicine

From a Sliver of the DSM to the Whole Patient

In a Mental Health Crisis, Families Need Help, Too

Community and family support are essential for improving mental health outcomes in young people.

fromFast Company

Why the future of mental healthcare is team-based

Team-based care improves mental health treatment outcomes by integrating multidisciplinary teams to address complex conditions effectively.

Humor

Welcome to the Anxiety Club

Humor and mental health intertwine in 'Anxiety Club,' showcasing comedians' struggles and promoting open conversations about anxiety.

Developing a Helpful Long-Term Perspective After Psychosis

Short-term thinking and emotions are common in early recovery from trauma, but developing a long-term perspective is essential for healing.

How to Create a Psychiatric Advance Directive

A psychiatric advance directive is a legal document outlining mental health treatment preferences during a crisis when communication is impaired.

From a Sliver of the DSM to the Whole Patient

Everyday psychiatric practice often relies on a narrow diagnostic framework, missing key symptoms and the patient's broader context.

In a Mental Health Crisis, Families Need Help, Too

Community and family support are essential for improving mental health outcomes in young people.

fromFast Company

Why the future of mental healthcare is team-based

Team-based care improves mental health treatment outcomes by integrating multidisciplinary teams to address complex conditions effectively.

When Harm OCD Involves Pets

OCD is characterized by the experience and response to intrusive thoughts, not the themes of those thoughts.

The Drama of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Faith and humility are essential in addressing obsessive-compulsive tendencies, emphasizing the acceptance of uncertainty in relationships.

Your Most Horrifying Thoughts May Not Mean What You Think

Intrusive sexual thoughts are a common form of OCD, often misidentified and not indicative of actual desire.

Pets

When Harm OCD Involves Pets

OCD is characterized by the experience and response to intrusive thoughts, not the themes of those thoughts.

The Drama of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Faith and humility are essential in addressing obsessive-compulsive tendencies, emphasizing the acceptance of uncertainty in relationships.

Your Most Horrifying Thoughts May Not Mean What You Think

Intrusive sexual thoughts are a common form of OCD, often misidentified and not indicative of actual desire.

Learning Beyond Correction

Single-loop and double-loop learning enhance student achievement and adaptability in education.

Law

Can You "See" Criminal Intent? What Research Reveals

Criminal appearance and perceived remorse significantly influence legal outcomes and sentencing decisions.

What Do Relatives Think About Electroconvulsive Therapy?

Most relatives of ECT recipients reported significant memory loss and negative impacts on relationships after treatment.

Education

The Consequences of Having No Consequences

Consequences are essential for teaching resilience and responsibility in youth development.

How the Highly Neurotic Keep Their Neuroticism Going

Stress perception is subjective, influenced by neuroticism, and can affect emotional recovery from both positive and negative life changes.

The 5-Word Thought That Can Break Your Life

The phrase 'What if this goes badly?' hinders personal growth and opportunities.

Cancer

When Healing Becomes Harm

A melanoma diagnosis transformed the perception of sunlight from healing to dangerous, reshaping the relationship with mortality and health.

Relationships

fromSilicon Canals

Psychology says the people who find it hardest to be taken care of when they're sick aren't independent, they're carrying a very old belief that needing someone was the fastest way to be left - Silicon Canals

Needing care from loved ones during illness can evoke feelings of vulnerability and discomfort, often rooted in deeper fears of abandonment.

When Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks

Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.

3 Hidden Causes of Stress

Anxiety often stems from a deep aversion to uncertainty and ingrained mental frameworks that fuel psychological distress.

When Anxiety Turns Us Into Control Freaks

Anxiety drives the need for control over ourselves and others, often leading to stress and repeating family patterns.

3 Hidden Causes of Stress

Anxiety often stems from a deep aversion to uncertainty and ingrained mental frameworks that fuel psychological distress.

LLMs don't get mental health right. We need a two-pronged approach to fix them

LLM-powered chatbots can inadvertently enable suicide and self-harm ideation, necessitating a clinically informed approach to user interactions.

Mind Drama

Rumination can start from ordinary painful moments and spiral, affecting both mind and body.

"Magic Mushrooms" and the Treatment of Mental Illness

Psilocybin mushrooms, used for centuries by indigenous cultures, show promise in treating OCD, PTSD, and depression, with significant clinical trial results.

Why You Can't Rush Healing

Pacing is essential in therapy, balancing speed to avoid client dysregulation or disengagement.

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Accepting mistakes and being honest with oneself are crucial for navigating uncertainty in decision-making.

fromSilicon Canals

Psychology says deep thinkers don't realize the reason they feel disconnected from their own life isn't depression - it's that observation became a shelter they forgot how to leave - Silicon Canals

Chronic detachment often misdiagnosed as depression or stress may stem from a learned behavior of observing rather than experiencing life.

The 3 Reasons Why Overthinking Gets Worse When You're Alone

Overthinking intensifies in isolation, while social connections help interrupt mental loops and promote action.

The Tool Your Clients Wish You Had Prescribed

AI can provide immediate mental health support, helping individuals manage anxiety and difficult moments effectively.

Why Our Dreams Are So Stressful

Upsetting dreams may aid in emotional processing and contribute to long-term well-being.

Why You Should Stop Rejecting Unpleasant Feelings

Fixing unpleasant feelings disrupts attention more than the feelings themselves.

When Illness Becomes a Character in Your Life

Chronic illness often becomes personified, impacting adaptation and well-being.

When Failure Seems Imminent, What Happens to the Narcissist?

Narcissistic individuals are particularly sensitive to failure and often rationalize it to protect their self-image.

The Question Behind the Question

Emotional questions often underlie technical inquiries, highlighting the need for addressing patients' emotional needs in medical conversations.

When Tension Turns Toxic

Understanding conflict phases helps in choosing appropriate responses and managing interactions effectively.

6 Ways ADHD Can Hide Autism

ADHD can overshadow autistic traits, leading to misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of individuals with both conditions.

When It's Not Just Anxiety

Women often misdiagnosed with anxiety may actually have ADHD, leading to a lack of effective treatment.

Mental health

Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?

6 Ways ADHD Can Hide Autism

ADHD can overshadow autistic traits, leading to misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of individuals with both conditions.

When It's Not Just Anxiety

Women often misdiagnosed with anxiety may actually have ADHD, leading to a lack of effective treatment.

Mental health

Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?

Why Avoiding Your Emotions Makes Them Stronger

Avoiding thoughts and emotions often intensifies them, while small shifts in response can help manage emotions effectively.

When Nothing Is Wrong, but Something Still Isn't Right

Consistency in daily habits can lead to significant improvements in health symptoms.

Relationships

Should Therapists Conduct Thought Experiments With Patients?

Thought experiments help couples articulate desires and expectations, reducing disappointment from unrealistic mind-reading assumptions.

Brooklyn

I help people with psychosis off the streets. Sometimes, their minds won't let them leave

Mental health chaplains work with homeless individuals experiencing serious mental illness, navigating the complex intersection of psychiatric symptoms, delusions, and housing instability while maintaining compassion and patience.

2 weeks ago

Mental Health Attorneys and Psychiatric Interventions

Interventions are confrontations by family or friends to compel treatment, but they can lead to unexpected adverse events.

2 weeks ago

How to Break a Loop of Stuck Thinking

Flawed assumptions lead to stuck thinking; testing them can prevent errors and improve problem-solving.

2 weeks ago

Therapy in the Public Eye

Engaging methods in family assessments can lead to significant insights and relationship clarifications among family members.

Cognitive Impairment After Psychosis

Recovery from cognitive impairment is possible, and new opportunities can arise despite challenges.

Why a Loved One Might Not Engage in Mental Health Treatment

Treatment engagement improves when it aligns with a person's life goals and identity.

When Therapy Doesn't Work

Therapy can lead to negative experiences, with clients reporting issues such as therapists' misbehavior and perceived incompetence.

My Schizophrenia Recovery Today

Schizophrenia recovery is possible through persistent treatment; the author achieved full symptom remission after initial total disability diagnosis using clozapine therapy.

4 weeks ago

How to Start Dynamic Psychotherapy for Psychosis

Psychodynamic therapy can effectively transform the experiences of individuals with psychosis.

Caring for the Part of You That Wants to Die

Suicide ideation affects 15.6% of U.S. adults, with significant risk factors including mental disorders, trauma, and social circumstances.

Treating Psychosis: Why We Aren't Hearing Our Patients

Healthcare providers often fail to listen to patients with psychosis, allowing their own anxiety and certainty to override genuine curiosity about the patient's lived experience and perspective.

5 Signs That Dissociation May Be Present in Therapy

Dissociation manifests subtly in therapy through emotional shifts, parts language, and disconnection as adaptive survival mechanisms rather than pathology.

On Diagnosis and Formulation

Diagnosis and formulation serve distinct clinical purposes: diagnosis identifies what illness is present through observable symptoms, while formulation explains why it manifests in this particular person.

Misdiagnosed, Dismissed, and Running Out of Time

Autoimmune encephalitis frequently presents with psychiatric symptoms, causing diagnostic delays when patients are initially evaluated by non-neurological specialists rather than neurologists.

How We Define Psychosis Matters

Psychosis is a spectrum condition where reality becomes confusing or unclear, causing hallucinations and delusions that many people experience to varying degrees.

The Obsessive-Compulsive's Misguided Quest for More Proof

Obsessive individuals seek certainty in choices, but life offers no definitive answers; reassessing decisions and improving relationships provides freedom.

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

Building a House: Treating Psychosis With Anti-Psychotics

Antipsychotics can provide early emotional stability and improved reality testing, serving as a temporary foundation while psychotherapy and life-rebuilding continue.

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Mental health

Big changes could be coming to how we diagnose mental health

Mental health

Clinical Reasoning and the Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis

Mental health

Big Changes to Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Coming, Maybe

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

Mental health

Updates to the 'bible' for mental-health conditions will miss the mark - is it time to ditch the DSM?

Mental health

Big changes could be coming to how we diagnose mental health

Mental health

Clinical Reasoning and the Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis

Mental health

Big Changes to Psychiatric Diagnoses Are Coming, Maybe

Mental health

Updates to the 'bible' for mental-health conditions will miss the mark - is it time to ditch the DSM?

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What I see in clinic is never a set of labels': are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?

Ancient texts describe mental suffering resembling modern disorders, showing such conditions are timeless while psychiatric labels and diagnostic boundaries continue to change.

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

Diagnosing mental health conditions need not be a case of yes/no | Letters

If we treat ADHD as binary (you have it or you do not), we are missing the possibility that we all lie somewhere on a continuum with diagnosed ADHD towards one end (and perhaps an ability to focus and concentrate at the other). A diagnosis of ADHD then depends on where the line is drawn. I suggest that this line has been moved in recent years, so that a large group of people have been caught up in the positive ADHD group, who would not have been previously.

Mental health

Psychiatrists plan to overhaul the mental health bibleand change how we define disorder'

The DSM will shift toward biomarker-based, more scientific diagnostic criteria and may rename the manual to emphasize "scientific" over "statistical".

#dsm-revision

fromwww.npr.org

Mental health

It's the foundation of psychiatric diagnosis. And it's about to get a makeover

Mental health

The 'bible for psychiatry' is getting a rewrite: your guide to the next DSM

fromwww.npr.org

Mental health

It's the foundation of psychiatric diagnosis. And it's about to get a makeover

Mental health

The 'bible for psychiatry' is getting a rewrite: your guide to the next DSM

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Psychiatric drugs aren't always the answer | Letter

Yes, there has been a shocking lack of progress in developing transformative psychiatric medicine (We need new drugs for mental ill-health, 5 February), but this may be because in mental health, drugs are not always the answer (see, for example, Richard P Bentall's Doctoring the Mind). Huge progress has been made in the effectiveness of talking therapies for example, free effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is available to all UK army veterans through the charity PTSD Resolution.

Mental health

What Is Hope in Mental Health Treatment?

Hope is an active process involving a vision of a better future, imagination, trust, and conviction that a better life can occur despite obstacles.

The Deception of Depression

Depression is insidious. For people suffering from depression, joy is elusive. Depression is not only a general feeling of sadness or being down and out. It is a serious condition and needs attention. People suffering from depression cannot just get over it and move on. They need support, healing, and to discover the epicenter of their pain.

Mental health

fromwww.bbc.com

'What if I just started shouting?' - when to worry about intrusive thoughts

"If I had an intrusive thought, I'd restart the walk from the bus stop," she says. "I was genuinely terrified that if I didn't redo it and something happened, it would be my fault".

Mental health

How Psychiatry Pathologized Resistance

Labeling protest as mental illness transforms political dissent into a medical problem, enabling dismissal, delegitimization, and punishment.

When a Diagnosis Becomes Your Identity

Diagnosis can reduce shame and enable treatment but should not become an immutable identity that limits curiosity, growth, and personal responsibility.

Why Do Children Hear Voices?

Children hear voices for many complex reasons including trauma, dissociation, psychosis, normal development, and complex family dynamics.

Mental Health and Sickness Benefits: Lessons From History

Mental health diagnoses account for 80% of young people's benefit claims, but evidence shows psychiatric treatments produce minimal symptom reduction without proven long-term employment outcomes.

5 Things Therapy Can Do for You (and 5 Things It Can't)

Therapy provides skills and perspectives but cannot create motivation, directly change others, or guarantee specific outcomes; success depends on client commitment and readiness.

A Better Way to Respond to Mental Health Crises

Most mental health crises do not justify deadly force; specialized mental-health crisis teams reduce violence and produce safer, better outcomes.