Have we been trying to prevent suicides wrongly all this time?
Traditional approaches to preventing suicide have focused on "who is at risk?" The aim is to identify an individual and to help them get support.
Dec 18, 2023
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Traditional approaches to preventing suicide have focused on "who is at risk?" The aim is to identify an individual and to help them get support.
Dec 18, 2023
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People with a serious mental illness (SMI), like schizophrenia, often experience obesity. And in the UK, such people are almost twice as likely to be obese compared to those without a diagnosis.
Jul 18, 2023
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In a paper published today in Molecular Psychiatry, a team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with researchers in Italy described shared patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily ...
Apr 13, 2023
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People living with HIV (PLWH) are far more likely to be diagnosed with depression, take antidepressants, be treated with electroconvulsive therapy, and commit suicide than population controls, especially in the first two ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Positive vibes, bonding activities and getting on well with each other help reduce violent incidents in high security psychiatric units, research suggests.
Mar 20, 2023
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Attitudes to mental health conditions are often influenced by matters of awareness and belief systems. Bipolar disorder is one of the conditions that's frequently misunderstood and stigmatized.
Mar 7, 2023
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In a study of more than 100,000 emergency room visits and 95,000 mental health hospitalizations of youth and young adults with private insurance, less than half who visited the emergency room had follow-up care within 30 ...
Oct 12, 2022
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When University of Pennsylvania doctoral student Helena Addison worked as a nurse at an inpatient psychiatric hospital, she encountered many people who had previously been incarcerated. The interactions made her want to better ...
Jun 10, 2022
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War on European soil is a rare event, and for many, 24 February 2022 will therefore be remembered as an unusually dark day in history. This was the day when Russian troops began the invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Since ...
May 17, 2022
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Black patients presenting at Emergency Departments (EDs) across the country with psychiatric complaints are 63% more likely to be chemically sedated than their white counterparts. But researchers also found that, at hospitals ...
Apr 7, 2022
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