The American Psychiatric Association (APA) prefers the term substance use disorder (SUD). SUD "is a complex condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance despite harmful consequences." How Many People Have Substance Use Disorders? According to the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use ...
Several studies have documented that medical students are at high risk for developing psychiatric disorders. Also the risk increases because these students who are the future health care providers may misunderstand and stigmatize psychiatric disorders. This can be potentially tragic. This article reviews ...
Almost half of people with psychosis have suicidal experiences. There is limited understanding of the processes underpinning psychological resilience to psychotic and suicidal experiences especially in people who have engaged with psychological talking therapies. Hence, the current study aimed to redress this...
Swedish penal law does not exculpate on the grounds of diminished accountability; persons judged to suffer from severe mental disorder are sentenced to forensic psychiatric care instead of prison. Re-introduction of accountability as a condition for legal responsibility has been advocated, not least by...
The paper compares the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity amongst sentenced prisoners and in the general population. Major psychosis was no more common in the majority of studies of criminal populations. Although prisoners have a higher level of neuroti
And then at the same time, my laboratory also does work recruiting general psychiatric patients with menstrual cycles who have suicidal thoughts to try to understand when we don’t select for people who say that they’re having these hormone-sensitive menstrual cycle symptoms. Do we still see ...
I run groups for parents of young adults with anxiety disorders. These youth are between the ages of 18 and 28. They are mostly living at home, dependent on their parents. Many of them may have attended school and college. Some have graduated. Almost all are not working, just staying at...
Hence, future studies should control for number of people encountered during the walk as well as for their affective state, since this may be different in natural and urban environments. Fourthly, different natural environments may have different effects on participants (e.g., a forest could ...
It's one of our oldest psychiatric disorders. It's been recognized really since the 1800s, perhaps even before, and it's characterized by very severe mood swings from what we call “mania” to depression. In states of mania, people have a couple of weeks or maybe even months of having...
Omega-3s have even been found to help those withbipolar disorder, a psychiatric disorder characterized by extreme mood swings. Adaptogenic Herbs Adaptogens are a unique group of herbs that work like a thermostat to keep you in a balanced physiological state known ashomeostasis. ...