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Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?

ANTI-ANTIDEPRESSANTS – April 29, 2022 - Acceptance of the idea that a chemical imbalance causes depression transformed the public’s comfort level about taking antidepressants. With a belief that a chemical imb... Read More...

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‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis For U.S. Teens

VIDEO – The X-GENERATION – April 23, 2022 - American adolescence is undergoing a drastic change. Three decades ago, the gravest public health threats to teenagers in the United States came from binge drinking, ... Read More...

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The Dark Side of Life Trading Crypto

INSOMNIA, ADDICTION, DEPRESSION, OH MY – April 28, 2022 - Therapists, such as Aaron Sternlicht of New York, say they are seeing an influx of people seeking help for crypto addiction, though treatment is availa... Read More...

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A Deep Dive into the History of Mental Illness

BOOK REVIEW: IN SEARCH OF MADNESS – April 17, 2022 - A word of caution for those approaching Professor Brendan Kelly’s latest book, In Search of Madness. If your self-esteem has recently taken a pummelling, do ... Read More...

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Pandemic Stress & Loneliness Making Addiction More Common

HOW DO WE COPE? – April 18, 2022 - Eliana Leve, director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s New York services, agreed: “Addictive behaviors are often linked to emotional and social deficits. The isolation... Read More...

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Substance Abuse Addressed At Spoon River College

VIDEO – SHARE ’TIL IT HURTS – April 13, 2022 - “These kids are struggling,” Ryan said. “Depression, thinking of suicide, we need more resources but we need to talk about it. People need HOPE. People need purpos... Read More...

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American Children 8 and Older Should Be Screened for Anxiety

THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY ON EARTH – April 12, 2022 - The U.S. task force recommended screening for anxiety regardless of whether a clinician has been looped into any signs or symptoms. “It’s critical to be able... Read More...

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: New Help for Mental Disorders?

ECT LITE? – April 13, 2022 - With nearly 8% of American adults (nearly 20 million people) living with depression, data suggests that medication and talk therapy are only effective in treating around two-thirds... Read More...

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Mental Health Problems Cause Reduced Cognitive Function

ITS A LOT TO THINK ABOUT – Why it matters - In recent decades, mental disorders have become increasingly prevalent in the United States and around the world, particularly in young adults and ado... Read More...

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6 Male Celebrities Who’ve Opened Up About Depression

VIDEO – THERAPY FOR ONE AND ALL – April 12, 2022 - Even celebrities aren’t immune to mental health struggles. From The Rock to Jon Hamm to Prince Harry, here are seven famous men who have kept it real about dep... Read More...

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Instagram and Snapchat Addiction Allegedly Led to 17-Year-Old Boy’s Suicide

MEDIA OVERDOSE DEATH – April 12, 2022 - The suit, shared with Gizmodo and filed on behalf of Wisconsin teen Christopher J. Dawley by the Social Media Victim Law Center, seeks to hold the two companies accounta... Read More...

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The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide

AUDIO – SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN – April 4, 2022 - Trevor’s parents, Angela and Billy had been trying to understand why there are so few therapeutic interventions for children with depression. Trevor, the ch... Read More...

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Genetic Link Between Routine Blood Test Results and Mental Health Disorders Found

BRAVE NEW WORLD – April 6 - These same variants can then also be linked to the measured levels of a biomarker in blood. For example, a variant in a particular gene may increase the risk of developing ... Read More...

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There’s a Mental Health Crisis Among Nurses

HELP FOR THE HELPERS – Mar. 31, 2022 - On the morning of January 18, Joshua Paredes came home to an empty apartment. His roommate and good friend Michael Odell wasn’t there. They were both working as nur... Read More...

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Can Writing Help Relieve Depression?

BE YOUR OWN PEN PAL – March 2, 2022 - Does it matter whether you keep your journal on a computer or other digital device, or write with traditional pen and paper? Chronister shares that it all comes down to the... Read More...

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Why is There a Mental-Health Crisis Among American Children?

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN – Mar. 23, 2022 - Last June, researchers from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine documented six unusual cases in the journal Movement Disorders. The subjects wer... Read More...

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‘Prolonged Grief Disorder’ Now a Mental Health Diagnosis

THEIR TURN TO CRY – Mar. 22, 2022 - It will most likely open a stream of funding for research into treatments — naltrexone, a drug used to help treat addiction, is currently in clinical trials as a form of grie... Read More...

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Paradox Of How Antidepressants Are Tested

DEPRESSED NEED NOT APPLY – March 15, 2022 - One afternoon in April 2018 I answered my rarely-used home telephone to a barrage of questions. On a crackly landline, a researcher from the University of Exeter, UK... Read More...

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Mrs. Doubtfire Co-Star Says Robin Williams Gave Him important Addiction Advice

WISHED HE HEARD WHAT HE SAID – March 13, 2022 - Lawrence said Williams gave him a ‘gift’ by being so candid about drug addiction, and gave him an important piece of advice. ‘Don’t ever do drugs. Especially coc... Read More...

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Making Peace With Your Body

IT STARTS RIGHT NOW – Mar. 18, 2022 - How long would it be, I wondered, until they would be repeating some version of this refrain? Just moments before, I had listened to a whole different storyline unfold. Tw... Read More...

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Kathy Griffin Calls Her Pill Addiction ‘Almost Comical’

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? – March 18, 2022 - “I didn’t know what to do with myself,” Griffin admitted. “I was just such a crazy workaholic, and all of a sudden, I had this time on my hands, and then I was depressed,... Read More...

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It’s So Hard To Find Mental Health Counseling Now

AUDIO – LOST AT HOME – March 6, 2022 - In most cases, their waiting lists were closed as well, even though Gullett was willing to pay hundreds of dollars in cash for each session. She spent February’s Super Bo... Read More...

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The Anatomy of Understanding Anxiety

BOOK REVIEW – March, 2022 - As some of the millions of people on psychiatric medication inevitably decide to discontinue their meds for one reason or another, what I’m witnessing is that there are legions of pe... Read More...

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TikTok Leaves Teens Thinking They Have Mental Illness

CRAZY – Dec. 26, 2021 - “We have to convince these kids to release their self-diagnoses but when they leave us they go right back into that TikTok community which reinforces their beliefs,” said Don Grant, exec... Read More...

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Marian Keyes on Sobriety and Marriage

ALL THE RIGHT NOTES – Feb. 15, 2022 - Lauded by contemporaries, including David Nicholls and Jo Jo Moyes, there’s light and dark in all Keyes’ novels, equal measures of hilarity and heartbreak. She has explore... Read More...

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New Strategy Needed To Tackle Opioids Crisis

REDUCE THE COST OF BURIALS – Feb. 8, 2022 - The pandemic has contributed to a surge in substance misuse including fatal overdoses. At least one in 10 Americans initiated or increased drug use amid rising anxie... Read More...

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Mother Sues Facebook, Snapchat Over Daughter’s ‘extreme addiction’ Before Suicide

GREED KILLS – Feb. 5, 2022 - Court papers state that before her death from suicide, Selena had struggled for two years with addiction to Instagram and Snapchat, and was hospitalised for emergency psychiatric ca... Read More...

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12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety

GROWING UP – Feb. 9, 2022 - In his book, Dr Berger suggests that Bill Wilson concluded that the ultimate purpose of practicing the 12 Steps was to achieve emotional sobriety. (2021, p.23) Wilson wrote about the... Read More...

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Maine Might Legalize ‘magic mushroom’ to Treat Depression

AUDIO – AND THEY TASTE GOOD TOO – Jan. 30, 2022 - In 2015, he took the leap. Because psilocybin is an illegal drug, he had to be discreet. He secured the psychedelic fungus from black market sources, then ... Read More...

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The Best Anti-Depressent Foods You’re Not Eating

AU NATURAL – While Dr. Mann’s research found that traditional comfort foods don’t have a meaningful effect on mood, a growing body of research shows that improving the quality of a person’s diet can have a sig... Read More...

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