Anxiety Disorders
What Your Patients are Hearing
Seniors in long-term care face higher suicide risks
Seniors who move into and live in long-term care facilities are at increased risk of suicide, according to reporting by the PBS...
Conference Coverage
Addressing anxiety helps youth with functional abdominal pain disorders
MILWAUKEE – Tackling comorbid anxiety reduced pain, disability, and anxiety.
Cases That Test Your Skills
An insidious onset of symptoms
Ms. S’s depression and anxiety have been well controlled by medication, but after several months, she develops tremors, poor concentration, and...
What Your Patients are Hearing
Performance-based pay linked to anxiety, depression
"Our study expands existing work by showing that the mental health costs of performance-based pay can be severe enough to necessitate...
What Your Patients are Hearing
Depression increasing among American teens, young adults
“I think we are living in a time of great uncertainty, where people are unsure about the future of the country but also their own futures.”
From the Journals
Patients with OCD/hoarding differ from those with OCD/nonhoarding
“Clinical implications of our findings are to have the treatment follow a more intensive and structured course (i.e. avoid surprises).”
What Your Patients are Hearing
For Latino patients, mental illness often goes untreated
Latinx Therapy podcast seeks to spread the word that seeking therapy for mental illness is a positive step.
Commentary
Up-close view of climate change proves sobering
Dr. Carl Bell says he now better understands Dr. David Alan Pollack’s warnings about the mental health effects of climate change.
Conference Coverage
Anxiety, depression compromise believability of drug-allergy testing
SAN FRANCISCO – Drug-allergy testing often produces a negative result, but some patients have a hard time believing...
What Your Patients are Hearing
Police department offers mental health care for officers
The goal is prevent problems by encouraging officers to discuss their problems with a mental health professional in a confidential setting.
Pearls
Helping patients through a benzodiazepine taper
Consider these strategies and nonpharmacologic interventions when creating an individualized plan for tapering a patient's prescribed...