Mood instability is a common feature of mental health disorders and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. BMJ open 2015; 5(5): e007504.Patel R, Lloyd T, Jackson R, Ball M, Shetty H, Broadbent M, Geddes JR, Stewart R, McGuire P, Taylor M (2015b). Mood instability is a common...
When linked with treatment and diagnostic registers, new information on common mental health disorders (CMHD) and service use, may be obtained, which might be useful clinically and for policy decision-making. This study reports the prevalence of CMHD and their association with PROM severity. ...
While various measures of common mental disorders (CMD) have been found to be associated with mortality, a comparison of how different measures predict mortality may improve our understanding of the association. This paper compares how the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the 30-it...
A distorted perception of reality is something that people with many different mental disorders struggle with. And while at first, you might expect your treatment to set everything straight, that most likely won’t happen, or at least not in the way that you think. The truth is that once ...
A new study in the United States says mental disorders appear to be common in college-age adults, but most do not seek treatment. The study compared the mental health of college students to that of non-students of the same age. About half of Americans aged 18 to 24 attend college. The...
Today, anxiety disorders are the most common mental health issues in the US, affecting 30% of adults. In 2021, a survey of 8,000 children led by Oxford University Press named anxiety as the Word of the Year. “It’s the word on everyone’s lip, the challenge of the moment,” Dr. ...
When we talk about the most common mental disorders in the world, do you know which condition appears in the first position? If you thought about depression, you got it right. The disease affects 322 million people worldwide. In addition, the incidence of cases increased 18% between 2005 an...
Feelings of social ineptness Additionally, ADHD in adult women can appear similar to other mental health conditions like anxiety disorders, obsessiveness, or depression—possibly making it harder for women to identify their own symptoms as ADHD and seek effective treatment. ...
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are considered at elevated risk of experiencing mental health disorders in working with patients with COVID-19. Aims: To estimate the prevalence of common mental health disorders in HCWs based in hospitals where pandemic-affected patients were treated. Method: ...
Anxiety, autism, schizophrenia and Tourette syndrome each have their own distinguishing characteristics, but one factor bridging these and most other mental disorders is circadian rhythm disruption, according to a team of neuroscience, pharmaceutical sci