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Patients with behavioral health conditions are often dually-burdened with chronic physical health conditions. Consequently, providers caring for these patients must coordinate their care to get the best possible health outcomes. The lack of reliable health information exchange and integration… [...]
For a lot of Americans, eating disorders (EDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs) are not distinct challenges. Many live with both. [...]
If you have lost any of your loved ones, then this can be considered as the most painful instance in your life. This particular situation in life, where one experiences that they have lost a loved one, is called… [...]
By now, you might be well aware of what dopamine, serotonin, and even cortisol do to your body and mind. In small waves, these hormones can have positive impacts, even cortisol (the stress hormone), but what happens when you… [...]
There’s a myth out there that emotional suffering is the key to a writer’s creativity and detrimental to a writer’s mental health. When we imagine a poet or a writer, we imagine them sitting in a dark quiet room… [...]
How to be successful in life? How to decode this challenging life? How to win this game called life? Are you someone who is too determined or ambitious and want to make your life worth it? But due to… [...]
[Jounral Abstract] OBJECTIVE: To estimate trends in maternal opioid use disorder (OUD) and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in Maine using the most recent data available. STUDY DESIGN: We used hospital discharge data to estimate the annual prevalence of maternal… [...]
The authors examined 2019–2020 Medicare claims data to compare rural versus urban patterns of change in telemental health use during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors found that telemental health mitigated barriers to mental health services during the pandemic, but… [...]
Mental health nurses in the West Midlands have stepped in to collect and provide urgent supplies for patients facing delays accessing support from local food banks. The post Mental health nurses set up ‘in-house food bank’ for patients in… [...]
Shortages of mental healthcare staff are continuing to leave patients “feeling unsafe” on mental health wards, a new report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned. The post Staff shortages continue to ‘negatively affect’ mental health act detainees… [...]
Suicide Crisis Syndrome is a proposed condition that describes the feeling of utter hopelessness often felt by the most suicidal clients. [...]
Personal Perspective: Is long-term psychotherapy more effective for complex conditions? In my case it was. Working with a psychiatrist for 11 years saved my life. [...]