News Related to Mental Health / Substance Abuse
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Prenatal mental healthcare can build more resilient pregnancies
Posted: 12/3/2019When Spicer was about 30 weeks pregnant, doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles told her that her fetus wasn’t growing normally. Up until that point, she had had a standard, even easy, pregnancy. But when she realized there was a chance that her daughter would die in utero, her anxiety “went through the roof,” she says.
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Bullied for autism, Terrace teen finds her voice in music
Posted: 12/2/2019The Mountlake Terrace High School senior is in the early stages of piecing together her own musical, based on real-life stories of struggles people have lived through in various minority groups.
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What mental illness memes say about stigma
Posted: 11/21/2019And TikTok’s got hundreds of results similar to this when you search “mental illness,” “depression" and “anxiety.” This radical exposure isn’t uncommon. Tweeting about anti-depressants, posting memes mocking social anxiety and lip-syncing viral tunes about crippling panic attacks is trendy.
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I Built My Identity Around Being Bipolar. Then My Doctor Said I’m Not Bipolar
Posted: 11/9/2019My psychiatrist first floated the idea that I don’t have bipolar disorder months ago, when we were spending another session dissecting my history of disasters. That’s what you do in therapy, in case you’re not familiar
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Am I an alcoholic?
Posted: 11/2/2019Recently I decided to stop drinking for a brief period. I had noticed that, at some point over the last few years, my drinking had switched from weekends only to every day - usually a pint or two of lager or a couple glasses of wine. I would start to feel a little pang of excitement as lunchtime drinks rolled around, and would get that same sense of giddy relief as I poured myself...
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What connects depression, anxiety, and PTSD?
Posted: 11/1/2019In the largest study of its kind, researchers identify similarities in the brain activity of people with major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders.
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These social media habits may point to depression, new study says
Posted: 1/11/2019A new study published this week in the “Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research” looked at whether there are specific activities on social media that are related to major depressive disorder (MDD) in millennials.
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Why Is Depression on the Rise?
Posted: 1/10/2019Depression is rising throughout the world. Today, about 10 times more people suffer from depression than they did in 1945. And the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates
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Social media buffers depression among older adults with pain
Posted: 10/17/2018With a few finger strokes or swipes on a computer or cell phone, seniors with pain reduce the risk of depression when visiting social media sites. In a newly published University of Michigan study, researchers reported that using social media can reduce the negative health effects of curtailed social contact that comes as a consequence of pain .
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