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THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2024 (HeathDay News) -- There's a strong association between a state's policies and laws around the rights of transgender people and the mental health of transgender residents, a new study shows.
"Trans individuals who were worried about having their rights taken away had significantly higher odds of experiencing depression and anxiety symptoms," the study authors repor...
People stricken with a severe case of COVID-19 have a higher risk of mental illness in the year following their infection, a new study warns.
However, vaccination appears to ward off these effects on mental health, researchers reported Aug. 21 in the journal
Suicide rates among female doctors are significantly higher than those of the general population, a new study finds.
Female doctors have a 76% higher suicide risk than average folks, researchers found.
Male doctors had about the same suicide risk as...
Kids considering suicide after receiving mental health care at a hospital can be helped by automated text messages that help them feel hopeful and supported, a new study finds.
Children receiving the texts as part of a program called Caring Contacts said they felt more positive after receiving the messages.
“Prior research has shown that patients are around 300 times more at r...
Black employees in a toxic workplace are more susceptible to depression and sleep loss than whites are, according to new research.
Black workers being mistreated by employers got an estimated 100 fewer minutes of sleep per night than white workers or Black people not enduring mistreatmen...
Pregnant women and new moms have better access to treatment for mood disorders, thanks to Obamacare, a new study finds.
More women received treatment for their pregnancy-related depression or anxiety after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, research...
As Americans sweat through another scorching summer, one expert warns that while extreme heat can cause physical harm it can also wreak havoc with your mental health.
Sizzling temperatures can make anyone irritable, but it can be far worse for some, especially those with mental health conditions, said Dr. Asim Shah, executive v...
There's a hint of good news for parents concerned about teen mental health: After 57% of U.S. teen girls surveyed in 2021 said they felt "persistent sadness," that number declined somewhat by 2023, to 53%, new government data shows.
In the latest biennial poll of over 20,000 high school students nationwide, called the
Three out of four police officers have experienced at least one concussion, increasing their risk of mental health issues, a new study suggests.
About 74% of Ohio law enforcement officers had suffered one or more head injuries during their life...
Depression can lower a woman’s chances of surviving breast cancer, a new study reports.
Women with breast cancer and depression are more than three times as likely to die as women without either condition, researchers found.
By comparison, breast cancer patients who arenâ...
Hospitalization for a heart-related emergency can have profound effects on a person’s mental health, a new study finds.
People hospitalized for heart attack, stroke or other heart-related illnesses were 83% more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder withi...
New research has added two conditions to the list of 12 risk factors that boost the chances of a dementia diagnosis.
The good news? You can guard against the development of both and researchers offer advice on exactly how to do that.
In a study published Wednesday in
Celebrity suicides seem to be contagious, prompting everyday folks to consider the same, a new study suggests.
The 2014 suicide death of comedian Robin Williams caused a thousand-fold increase in the risk of suicidal thoughts, reflected in a spike in calls to what was then the equivalent of the current
In findings that suggest more young Americans struggling with mental health issues are getting the help they need, a new poll shows that nearly a third of American adolescents and teens received some sort of mental health treatment in 2023.
That translates to over 8 million young people between the ages of 12 and 17 getting counseling, medication or another treatment, the
The kids are not alright.
New data shows a troubling 8% annual increase in the number of American children ages 8 to 12 who died by suicide, with the sharpest increase seen among girls.
Suicide has now become the fifth leading cause of death among both male and female preteens, report a team led by ...
Three out of five young people who die by suicide don’t have any prior mental health diagnosis, a new study finds.
People are missing the telltale signs that children, teens and young adults are troubled in ways that put them at risk for suicide, researchers said.
“Our findin...
Losing someone close to you can make you age faster, a new study finds.
People who lost a parent, partner, sibling or child showed signs of older biological age compared with those who hadn’t experienced such a loss, researchers reported July 29 in the journal JAMA Network Open.
“Our study shows strong links between losing loved ones across the life course fro...
Medical debt is significantly more common among people with a mood disorder, and these money woes can keep them from getting the help they need, a new study says.
Among people with depression or anxiety, those with medical debt were twice as likely to delay or forego
Spending time in nature can provide a boost for people with mental illness, a new review finds.
Even as little as 10 minutes spent in a city park can improve a person’s symptoms, researchers found.
The positive effects of nature approved part...
Folks need to have their meals at regular intervals or risk slipping into anxiety or depression, a new study of airline personnel has found.
Delaying breakfast or dinner appears to increase a person’s risk of developing a mood disorder, researchers report.
The study also found that confining meals to a 12-hour “eating window†every day helps sustain an even mood -...
“Magic†mushrooms achieve their psychedelic effects by temporarily scrambling a brain network involved in introspective thinking like daydreaming and remembering, a new study reports.
Brain scans of people who took psilocybin -- the psychedelic drug in ‘shrooms -- revealed that the substance causes profound and widespread temporary changes to the brain’s default m...
Just two years after the launch of the nation's three-digit crisis hotline, more than 10 million calls, texts and chat messages have been fielded by counselors, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday.
Introduced in July 2022 to simplify emergency ...
A new report finds research is sorely lacking on how chronic illnesses affect women, and it urged government agencies to do more to investigate how these diseases strike women differently.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine analysis, commissioned by the...
Researchers have identified a gene that can trigger obesity, behavior problems and postpartum depression when missing or damaged.
The finding could lead to new treatments for postpartum depression and overeating: The study in mice suggests the so-called "love hormone" -- oxytocin -- may ease ...
Weight gain is a common side effect of antidepressants, but some types cause people to pack on pounds more than others, a new study says.
Bupropion users are 15% to 20% less likely to gain a significant amount of weight than those taking the most common antidepressant, sertraline, res...
A study based on online Google searches suggests surging U.S. interest in microdosing psychedelics, such as psilocybin, as rules around the use of such drugs begin to relax.
But the safety of these drugs isn't entirely clear, said study lead author Dr. Kevin Yang.
"As public interest in using psychedelics and cannabis for health g...
People who eat more ultra-processed foods are more likely to suffer an early death, particularly from heart disease or diabetes, a new study warns.
Older adults who consume higher amounts of ultra-processed foods are about 10% more likely to die than those w...
As psilocybin mushrooms become the most popular psychedelic in the United States, some states have started to ease regulations on its recreational use.
Now, a new report warns that the federal government will have to decide whether to follow suit.
RAND, a nonprofit research group, stresses in the report that if efforts t...
Anxiety could be an early warning sign of Parkinson's disease, a new study finds.
People with anxiety have at least double the risk of developing Parkinson's compared to those without the mood disorder, results show.
Further, specific Parkinson's symptoms serve as warning signs of the ...
A new slow-release pill form of ketamine can quell hard-to-treat depression without producing psychedelic side effects normally associated with the drug, early research suggests.
Patients on the strongest dose of ketamine tablets saw significant improvement in their depression compa...
Transgender and bisexual adults have rates of loneliness that are much higher than that of cisgender and heterosexual people, new data shows.
Federal health data on U.S. adults from 2022 finds the highest rates of self-reported loneliness among people who identify as bisexual (56.7%) or transgender (rates ranging from 56.4% to 63.9%), according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disea...
Depression during or after a pregnancy could be tied to a heightened risk for heart trouble in women decades later, new research warns.
This so-called "perinatal" depression was linked to a 36% higher odds of developing heart disease within the next 20 years, reported a Swedish team led by Dr. Emma Bränn, of the Karolinska Institute in S...
The U.S. Surgeon General announced Monday that he will push for warning labels on all social media platforms, stating that they may harm teens' mental health.
"The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency -- and social media has emerged as an important contributor," Dr. Vivek Murthy wrote in an essay publi...
Depression can be sorted into six distinct types using brain scans, a revelation that could improve treatment for many suffering the debilitating mood disorder.
Researchers analyzed brain scans to identify six different biological types of depression, bas...
A new form of psychotherapy appears to work even better at treating chronic pain in older adults than gold-standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a new study finds.
U.S. veterans who received emotional awareness and expression ...
Depression and memory declines may be closely linked in older people, new research suggests.
"Our study shows that the relationship between depression and poor memory cuts both ways, with depressive symptoms preceding memory decline and memory decline linked to subsequent depressive symptoms," said senior study author Dr. Dorina Cada...
Roughly 1 in 6 people who stop taking an antidepressant will experience symptoms caused by discontinuing the drug, a new review finds.
However, only 1 in 35 will experience severe symptoms after dropping their medication, researchers report June 5 in The Lancet Psychiatry jou...
The wee hours of the morning could be the most dangerous for someone on the brink of suicide or homicide, a new study shows.
There's a five-fold greater risk for suicide and an eight-fold greater risk for homicide between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. for those awake in the still of the night, resea...
People who regularly stay up until the wee hours of the morning could be harming their mental health, a new study finds.
Regardless of whether people were morning larks or a night owls, they tended to have higher rates of mental and behavioral disorders if they stayed up late, researchers found.
The mental health risk associated with staying up late cropped up regardless of a perso...
Even as suicide rates have risen among Americans generally, one group appears to be bucking that trend: People diagnosed with cancer.
Experts are crediting improved access to counseling and other "psychosocial care" with easing the emotional toll of cancer and keeping more patients from making tragic decisions.
Nevertheless, cancer patients still face elevated risks for suicide, no...
Inmates released from jail have a ninefold increased risk of suicide within the following year, compared to people who've never been incarcerated, new research shows.
"Suicide prevention efforts should focus on people who have spent at least one night in jail in the past year,"concluded the team led by Ted Miller, a senior research sci...
A looming presidential election, continued economic struggles and the threat of gun violence have a rising number of Americans more anxious this year compared to last, a new poll finds.
The
The active chemical in magic mushrooms could prove to be a powerful antidepressant, a new review finds.
Psilocybin outperformed a variety of "control"treatments in easing symptoms of depression, researchers reported May 1 in the BMJ.
Those control groups received either placebo medications, the dietary supplement niacin (vitamin B), or microdoses of psychedelics.
"Thi...
Women approaching menopause appear to be at higher risk of depression, a new review indicates.
Women in the transition period prior to menopause are 40% more likely to experience depression than premenopausal women, according to pooled data from seven studies involving ...
The benefits of physical fitness for kids spill over into their mental health, new research shows.
Getting plenty of exercise may guard against depressive symptoms, anxiety and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new study published April 29 in the journal J...
Many people with tough-to-treat depression may be trying psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, as an alternative to antidepressants.
Thinking that it's a "natural" drug, folks might assume it comes without side effects.
That assumption would be wrong.
People in a new study who took p...
Many people dogged by depression are turning to the psilocybin found in "magic mushrooms" to ease the condition, and often reporting success.
Now, new research suggests much of the credit for that success lies in the relationship between th...
Two-thirds of homeless people are experiencing some form of mental health disorder, a large, new review of data on the subject.
The analysis found that men who are homeless are more likely to be battling mental illness than women, although rates were high for both genders compared to the general population.
There are signs that rates of mental illness may be on the rise among homele...
Want to feel happier?
Live in or near a place with a rich diversity of nature, a new study says.
Environments with plentiful natural features -- trees, birds, plants and rivers -- are associated with better mental well-being than the more spartan landscapes of suburbia, researchers found.
Further, spending time in areas like this can provide benefits that last up to eight hour...
Quiet preteens who feel they're a burden on others are more likely to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors, a new study reports.
Criticism from parents or caregivers also increased the likelihood of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, researchers found.
Preteen girls with these traits are at especially high risk, according to the study published recently in the