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Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.

Society of Clinical Psychology

Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for both diagnosis and treatment in a diagnostically mixed sample. As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al.,

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Living with Someone Who Has Bipolar Disorder and Learning as You Go: How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder; Part 2

Bipolar Bandit

First, let me say it is not easy living with someone with bipolar disorder. Their severe depressions and highest of manic episodes can ruin relationships. I have written a blog How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder , but have some things to add. In the blog I wrote a long time ago, I said to have an action plan.

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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: What Happens The Day Someone Is Sectioned For Anorexia?

MQ Mental Health

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. Eating disorders are mental illnesses and sometimes, but not always have physical symptoms.

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Having hypermobile joints can increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adolescents

MQ Mental Health

A link has been found between joint hypermobility and the emergence of depression and anxiety in adolescence, according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom (BSMS) published in the BMJ Open. It is therefore important to identify the factors that may increase the risk for these disorders.

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New Treatments for Bipolar Depression—Options for Treatment Resistance

Nnatasha Tracy

Recently, Psychiatric Times did a comprehensive piece on new or unusual bipolar depression treatments, treatments that may be an option for treatment-resistant bipolar depression. They are thinking outside the standard bipolar depression treatments.

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A Look at Mental Health in the LGBTQIA+ Community During Pride Month 2022

My Brains Not Broken

LGB adults are nearly twice as likely as heterosexual adults to experience a substance use disorder. Transgender individuals are almost four times as likely as cisgender individuals to experience a substance use disorder. times more likely to experience depression, anxiety, and substance misuse compared with heterosexual individuals.

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Depression and suicide risk: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandre Lussier

MQ Mental Health

Alexandre is studying extent to which the timing of child and adolescent depression interacts with genetic susceptibility to influence suicide risk in early adulthood. Following my PhD, I trained in computational biology and statistical genetics at Cornell University, working on X chromosome variation and psychiatric disease.