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As shovels dug in for the first time recently at the site of the new State Hospital in Jamestown, state health officials said they believe North Dakota is turning the page on addressing mental health challenges in the state.
For years, Becca Kacanda was haunted by trauma that led to post-traumatic stress disorder. She tried different types of talk therapy and even a technique known as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for "potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools," according to a press release issued recently.
During his first term, President Donald Trump frequently turned to the issue of mental health, framing it as a national crisis that demanded action. He linked it to opioid addiction, mass shootings and a surge in veteran suicides — and he later used it to argue against COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures.
Near Park Dale Lane Elementary in Encinitas, California, recently, a child cried in her mother's arms as federal agents arrested her father. A new UC Riverside report said moments like this can have lasting consequences for children in immigrant and mixed-status families.
Current and former TikTok employees have raised concerns internally about how the app's popular algorithm could hurt young users' mental health, a newly unsealed video presented as evidence in a North Carolina lawsuit against the company shows.
Engaging with nature could be an effective measure for those with low well-being to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. A new pilot study from the University of Exeter, published in Behavioral Sciences, found that a self-guided, four-week nature-based program called Roots and Shoots could help adults boost their mood, enhance mindfulness, and reconnect with the natural environment.
Not everyone is equally likely to experience mental illness. What is the contribution of an individual's genetic background and experiences of childhood adversity to that likelihood? And how do these risk factors interact at the level of the brain?
A new study has revealed that cultural background can influence how mental health care staff approach shared decision-making with patients. Experts from the University of Nottingham's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences revealed that psychiatrists in more individualistic and enjoyment-oriented cultures prefer it, while those in more hierarchical cultures tend not to.
It is well established that stress can increase susceptibility to various neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety, which are highly prevalent worldwide and represent a significant economic burden and public health issue in our society. The World Health Organization estimated that in 2019, around 970 million people globally — 1 in 8 — suffered from a mental disorder.
From "try yoga" to "start journaling," most mental health advice piles on extra tasks. Rarely does it tell you to stop doing something harmful. New research from the University of Bath and University of Hong Kong shows that this "additive advice bias" appears everywhere: in conversations between people, posts on social media, and even recommendations from AI chatbots.
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