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Lamotrigine in the Maintenance Treatment of Bipolar Disorder - AAFP News

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Toxins in Wildfire Smoke May Make Their Way Into Brain - HealthDay News

THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The smoke from wildfires is dangerous for your lungs, but tiny particles from the smoke can also enter your brain and cause lifelong neurological issues, a new animal study suggests. Once that happens, the particles may put people at risk for everything from premature aging and various forms of dementia to depression and even psychosis, researchers say. "These are fires that are coming through small towns and they're burning up cars and houses," said Matthew Campen, a professor at the University of New Mexico's College of Pharmacy. Campen and his team conducted research last year at Laguna Pueblo, an area 41 miles west of Albuquerque and roughly 600 miles from the source of wildfires. They found that mice exposed to smoke-laden air for nearly three weeks under closely monitored conditions showed age-related changes in their brain tissue. Microplastics and metallic particles of iron, aluminum and magnesium in wildfire smoke so...

Mental Health First Aid classes added in mid-valley - Albany Democrat Herald

Mental Health First Aid classes added in mid-valley Albany Democrat Herald Mental Health First Aid classes have been scheduled for Benton and Linn counties during the next few weeks.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Types, Techniques, Uses - Verywell Mind

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change the destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on their behavior and emotions. Cognitive behavioral therapy combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy by identifying maladaptive patterns of thinking, emotional responses, or behaviors and replacing them with more desirable patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing the automatic negative thoughts that can contribute to and worsen our emotional difficulties, depression, and anxiety. These spontaneous negative thoughts also have a detrimental influence on our mood. Through CBT, faulty thoughts are identified, challenged, and replaced with more objective, realistic thoughts. Everything You Need to Know About CBT Types of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT encompasses a range of techniques and approaches that a...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content] DSM-5 Criteria and Depression Severity: Implications for Clinical Practice    Frontiers

Man fatally stabbed in face at mental health group home in West St. Paul - Grand Forks Herald

Man fatally stabbed in face at mental health group home in West St. Paul Grand Forks Herald

Bipolar disorder: When you're on top of the world - and the only way is down - The Telegraph

In February 2009, multi-millionaire businessman Paul Downes asked a film-maker to fly out to Jamaica to make a record of his search to find a wife. Paul, who has never married, had decided he wanted to settle down and have a family, so he had fliers distributed in the Ukraine where the women embodied all the attributes he was looking for in a life partner. He then arranged for a shortlist of 12 women to fly out and spend two weeks with him in the exclusive villa he had rented. Events did not go according to plan: unsurprisingly, choosing a wife was hampered (largely) by language problems, and the scheme ultimately cost Paul around $250,000. This bizarre story forms the centrepiece of a TV documentary to be shown next week, which looks at what is dubbed the '21st-century" disease – bipolar disorder. It is characterised by extreme mood swings, and during his exploits in Jamaica Paul was in the grip of a manic episode...

The Management of Anxiety and Depression in Pediatrics - Cureus

Anxiety and depression are two common mental health diagnoses made in pediatric patients. The median age of onset for anxiety disorder is six years old and typically persists throughout the lifetime of those diagnosed. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive worrying, insomnia, irritability, fatigue, and decreased concentration. Other anxiety disorders include social anxiety disorder and separation anxiety disorder. The median age of onset for social anxiety disorder is 12 years old and is characterized by fear of embarrassment or scrutiny from peers. Separation anxiety disorder has an earlier onset at the age of eight years old and is characterized by extreme worry or anxiety when separated from someone with whom they have a firm attachment. Depression is usually diagnosed later in childhood, with a median age of onset of 13 years old [1,2]. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by low self-esteem, guilt, hopelessness, i...

How creative arts can change the way people deal with mental illness

A crack in the wall. Most people wouldn’t even notice it. But for Danielle Hark, it was a spark of inspiration. Six months after giving birth to her first daughter in 2010, Hark, a writer and photographer from Millburn, N.J., fell into a severe depression. Getting out of bed became impossible. Anxiety struck whenever she considered leaving the house. Thoughts of suicide loomed. One day in the shower, she suddenly felt she couldn’t breathe. “I thought I was dying,” she recalled. “I didn’t need to kill myself because I was about to be dead.” ADVERTISEMENT Skip Hark reached for her phone to call for help, but accidentally snapped a photo instead. Then she noticed the crack and thought, “That would make a good picture.” “Just that one thought and just that one breath helped me to become more present,” she said. Photography didn’t cure her depression, but it started her on a journey of recovery — one that she continues today. Taking photographs gets her out of the house, engaging wi...

Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia - Psychiatry Advisor

Auditory hallucinations, or "hearing voices," is one of the most prevalent symptoms of schizophrenia, reported by as many as 75% of patients. 1 It is also seen in other psychiatric conditions, such as bipolar and unipolar depression and personality disorders, as well as in nonclinical populations. Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia are heterogenous in nature. According to Simon McCarthy-Jones, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, "Hearing voices is a varied experience. It can involve hearing single or multiple voices, whose identity the hearer may or may not know, who speak in turn or all at the same time, who may be saying new things or repeating what has been heard before, and who can give comments or commands, insults or encouragement. Most commonly though, people diagnosed with schizophrenia will hear multiple voices that are male, nasty, repetitive, commanding, and interactive, where ...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Association of polygenic liabilities for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with educational attainment and cognitive aging    Nature.com

How non-industrial cultures view mental illness

Many abnormal behaviors that are considered by western psychologists to be mental illnesses that require treatment are seen in a much different and even positive light in non-industrial or "primitive" societies. Things like hearing voices, hallucinations, and other unconventional behaviors are seen as the start of a spiritual awakening. Many of these individuals go on to become spiritual leaders and shamans of their communities. Alan Watts and Terrence McKenna both commented on and were concerned about industrial definitions and treatment of mental illness. Culture is the arbiter of our conscious reality. To say that it influences how we think and act would be an understatement. For the non-inquisitive or complacent mind, it can set us into the inane doldrums of prefabricated patterns we take to be both our day-to-day reality and how we even view our own psyches and world around us. It comes as no surprise that it also has a significant effect on what we consider to be...