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How to Counter TikTok’s Mental Health Misinformation

By Ashvin Sood, MD, and GAP’s Committee on Psychiatry in the Media “If you have inattention and rejection sensitivity, you…

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“I’m So OCD!”: The Misuse of Mental Health Language

People often borrow terminology from the language of mental health to describe everyday behavior. A neat and tidy person declares…

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Are more people depressed & anxious, or are we just getting better at talking about mental health?

This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent in by readers about what’s been…

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All The News That’s Fit: Mental health days, ‘lasagna of death’ and skin glue

JANUARY 31, 2023 Drug prices capped, but not bills © (Getty Images) (Getty Images) More than 63 million Americans are…

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Google engineer who was laid off while on mental health leave says she ‘silently mourned’ after receiving her severance email at 2 a.m.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.Beck Diefenbach/Reuters A Google engineer said she found out she was laid off at 2 a.m. while…

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New Canaan Human Services head requests more money for mental health programs, citing uptick in need

NEW CANAAN — An uptick in domestic violence and a surge of childhood depression and anxiety were topics during the…

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Google’s head of mental health and wellbeing was among the 12,000 workers laid off by the tech giant

Google announced on January 20 that it was laying off around 12,000 workers, or 6.4% of its workforce. Justin Sullivan/Getty…

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Patty’s Place: A concierge for youth mental health care

“Aha!” moments can be fascinating. That instant when the answer to a vexing challenge seems to appear in a flash….

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3 things to know before talking to ChatGPT about your mental health

Freddie Chipres couldn’t shake the melancholy that lurked at the edges of his otherwise “blessed” life. He occasionally felt lonely,…

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Tyre Nichols video raises concerns about impact on viewers’ mental health

SACRAMENTO — The graphic content in the Tyre Nichols video released Friday night is raising concerns about how it might…