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988: The 1-Year Anniversary
The CEO of the AFSP discusses the big 1-year anniversary of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline switch to 988.
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Booking Another Summer of Awe
Need some summer reading recommendations?
MDD Treatment: Follow-Up
Greg Mattingly, MD, and Jeremey Schreiber, MSN, PMHNP-BC, discuss best practices for monitoring and follow-up with patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) to ensure treatment efficacy and safety.
Approach to Treatment in Patients with MDD
Practitioners discuss their approach to treatment with their patients with major depressive disorder (MDD).
“What a Dying Woman Saw”
"She was clear-eyed and dying when I knew her, soft breaths feathering from her chest like distant smoke..."
MDD as a Chronic Condition
Experts discuss how practitioners are viewing major depressive disorder (MDD) as a chronic condition vs an episodic condition.
Tailoring Treatments for Patients With MDD
Greg Mattingly, MD, and Jeremey Schreiber, MSN, PMHNP-BC, discuss navigating the challenge of a “one size fits all approach” when treating and identifying the specific needs of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Revisiting a Plan for a National Mental Health Recovery Program
What can we do on a national level to improve mental health?
My Heart Leaps Up
"The Child is father of the Man..."
The Benefits of Vacations for Your State of Mind
Are you going on vacation this year?
Undertreatment in Patients Suffering From MDD
Practitioners discuss the rates of undertreatment in patients suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD).
Healthcare Perception of Major Depressive Disorder
Greg Mattingly, MD, and Jeremey Schreiber, MSN, PMHNP-BC, comment on the perception of major depressive disorder (MDD) within the healthcare community and the clinical and practical implications of is this condition.
Border Boy
"It is not a place out there but a place in here. I catch on its barbed wire in both places."
Beauty Amidst Death, Dying, and Resurrection
Death: putting extra meaning on life...?
What Your Patients Want and Need
How can you help your patients feel heard, but also not stigmatized?
Letter to AI
"But you who know all will never comprehend our resentment of perfection, the flawlessness you take for granted..."
We Are Still a Traumatized Nation
Are we still traumatized? It seems so.
On the Hospital Bed
"...this memory held on chest, in hand..."
The Good Burnout News About Medical Marriages
Married to the job...? No more.
"Our Medical Marriage"
"Scores of textbooks later we’re a pair of pagers and missed dinners, companions in sleep-deprived nights."
Crying at the 2023 APA Annual Meeting
Mental health professionals should cry. Here's why.
The Morning After the Most Recent Shooting I Saw
"I am not comforted by the morning after the night."
Changing the Paradigms of How We Think About Depression
Check out this review of the 2023 APA Annual Meeting presentation on the efficacy and safety of repeat treatment courses using novel medicine, zuranolone.
Evolution of Pharmacological Treatments at the 2023 APA Annual Meeting
An inside look at what treatments are being discussed in San Francisco...
Defining Treatment-Resistant Depression
Does treatment-resistant depression exist? These 2023 APA Annual Meeting panelists discuss definitions in this exclusive video.
Dismantling Structures Through Creativity
How can creativity help dismantle racist structures?
Keeping Communities Safe: Early Intervention to Prevent School Shootings
If you missed this session, check out the highlights here!
Working Together to Prevent Acts of Terrorism and Violence
Don't miss this APA workshop led by experienced psychologists and psychiatrists from the FBI’s Behavioral Threat Assessment Center and the Department of Homeland Security’s National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Office!
Looking Toward the Future of American Psychiatry
Petros Levounis, MD, MA, reflects on his upcoming presidency for the American Psychiatric Association.
"Spring"
"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring..."
Join This Club for Mental Health
The Worried and the Well
Brief Book Reviews: April 2025
Positive Interim Results on Trontinemab Validate Brainshuttle Technology for Alzheimer Disease Treatment