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nearly pain-free post-treatment . And most maintained relief for one year .”
SOURCE : CU Boulder Today , by Lisa Marshall , Sept . 29 , 2021 : https :// bit . ly / 3C6Ria7
Finding Meaning Through “ Logotherapy ” Improves Mental Health and Medication Adherence Among Diabetic Patients With Depression
“ A study published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine offers preliminary support for a meaning-centered therapeutic approach to treating patients with diabetes and depression . The logotherapy intervention was found to lower depressive symptoms , reduce death anxiety , improve hope , and boost medication adherence among patients . … Founded by Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl , logotherapy is based on the principle that humans are motivated by the desire to find meaning in life and that meaning can be found even in the most tragic of circumstances . Accordingly , the therapy aims to improve patients ’ lives by providing them with tools to help them find their individual purpose .”
SOURCE : PsyPost , by Beth Ellwood , Sept . 29 , 2021 : https :// bit . ly / 3aZrCjT
Yearning for Free Time ? Too Much of It Could Take a Toll on Your Mental Well-Being
“ A new study finds that people may be just as unhappy with ‘ too much ’ free time as they are with too little . Apparently , the sweet spot for extra free time is about three and a half hours per day . As the amount extends beyond that , however , the benefits to well-being decline and , at around seven hours , the extra free time starts making people feel bad , according to the study , published [ Sept . 9 ] in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology .”
SOURCE : NBC News , by Linda Carroll , Sept . 10 , 2021 https :// nbcnews . to / 3C31EaW
People Tend to Incorrectly Assume That Psychological Disorders “ in the Brain ” Are Immutable and Innate
People are more likely to adopt essentialist views of psychiatric conditions after reading that such conditions can be diagnosed via neuroimaging techniques , according to new research published in Cognitive Science . In other words , mental disorders that manifest in the brain are more likely to be viewed as innate and unchangeable . The findings suggest that an intuitive bias can help explain why some people shun psychiatric patients and view their condition as a fixed trait .”
SOURCE : PsyPost , by Eric W . Dolan , Aug . 29 , 2021 : https :// bit . ly / 3m4gAQp
Tough Day ? Stress Can Predict Social Interaction
“ A new study published in the journal Emotion has found that greater levels of stress on a given day can predict decreases in social interaction the following day . ‘ Our findings show that people who experienced more stress on one day socialized less with others the next day ,’ says senior author Meghan Meyer , ... director of the Dartmouth Social Neuroscience Lab . ‘ This effect may persist for up to two days later after someone has had a stressful day .’ Previous studies with animals have shown that they prefer not to socialize with their peers if they were stressed the day before … To date , it has been difficult to determine if humans also engage in social avoidance as a result of stress , as researchers have not had the tools to effectively measure how stress affects real-world social interactions . [ This ] study relied on mobile phone sensing technology that collects passively and automatically .”
SOURCE : Dartmouth College , Oct . 15 , 2021 : https :// bit . ly / 3B1m6YB
Masculinity May Have a Protective Effect Against the Development of Depression — Even for Women
Women and men who strongly endorse masculine traits are less susceptible to depressive symptoms compared to their less masculine counterparts , according to new research published in the Journal of Affective Disorders that examined 40 years of evidence . The findings could help explain why women face a greater risk of depression . … [ S ] tudy author Hong Li , ... director of the Chinese Psychological Society [:] … ‘[ W ] e asked whether girls / women suffer from high-risk depression just because of their biological sex ? We searched for answers from the past literature and found that psycho-social gender ( e . g ., gender role ) might be an effective indicator of predicting depression susceptibility , even more accurate than biological sex , because personal emotions are easily affected by social factors .’”
SOURCE : PsyPost , by Eric W . Dolan , Aug . 22 , 2021 : https :// bit . ly / 3nCcqPF
Just 10 % of kids with ADHD outgrow it , study finds
“ Most children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder ( ADHD ) don ’ t outgrow the disorder , as widely thought . It manifests itself in adulthood in different ways and waxes and wanes over a lifetime , according to a study published Aug . 13 in the American Journal of Psychiatry . Study authors from 16 institutions in the United States , Canada , and Brazil said decades of research characterize ADHD as a neurobiological disorder typically first detected in childhood that persists into adulthood in approximately 50 % of cases . But this study found just 10 % of children completely outgrow it .”
SOURCE : University of Washington School of Medicine , Aug . 13 , 2021 : https :// bit . ly / 3C9ZKVU
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