Mexican students intoxicated by TikTok challenge
Mexican authorities are warning about the dangers of a viral TikTok challenge that has left school students intoxicated after taking a controlled medication.
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Mental Disorders: News and Research on Panic Disorder
MeSH tree: F03.080.700
Find compassion with yourself to cope with the holidays, says psychologist
For anyone dealing with an illness, grief or the loss of a loved one, the holidays can be a difficult time to cope, especially with the sights and sounds of happiness and cheer all around them. University of Michigan psychology ...
Dec 27, 2022
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction is as effective as an antidepressant drug for treating anxiety disorders
A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as use of the gold-standard drug—the common antidepressant drug escitalopram—for patients with anxiety disorders, according to results of a first-of-its-kind, ...
Nov 9, 2022
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Scared of needles? Claustrophobic? One longer session of exposure therapy could help as much as several short ones
For the one in 13 people who suffer from phobias, the mere mention of spiders, heights, enclosed spaces or other triggers can cause distress.
Nov 8, 2022
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Where do fears come from? How can new insights enhance treatment?
Exposure therapy is a major treatment option used by clinicians to help patients face and get past their distressing and impairing fears. However, the fears can return in as many as 50% of patients.
Oct 25, 2022
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Clinical psychologists and their patients need new ways to understand and confront the fear of losing control
Control is an important construct in the fields of psychology and psychopathology, particularly as it relates to anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). Losing control, however, is a fear clinical psychologists ...
Oct 11, 2022
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Task force recommends anxiety screening for all adults under 65
In what amounts to a public acknowledgement that anxiety disorders have run rampant during the pandemic, an influential expert panel is recommending for the first time that all American adults under the age of 65 be screened ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Bangladeshi mystic fights demons with psychiatry
Evil spirits bedevil the families that seek blessings from an elderly Bangladeshi mystic—but he knows his prayers alone are not enough to soothe their troubled minds.
Sep 15, 2022
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After wiping out $6.7 billion in medical debt, this nonprofit is just getting started
Soon after giving birth to a daughter two months premature, Terri Logan received a bill from the hospital. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas.
Aug 18, 2022
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How to tell the difference between a heart attack and panic attack
Chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, nausea: Are you having a heart attack or a panic attack?
Jul 14, 2022
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