Pavel Trubetskov
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@PTrubetskov
Mental health facts with sources. Depression, anxiety, therapy — what research says vs what people think. Been through it. Building https://t.co/aiKB5P0vjy
Psychiatrist Jon Goldin speaks about antidepressants for kids. Great having you on the show @DrJonGoldin
“When my patients talk to me about this stuff, there is often a feeling of helplessness or powerlessness,” said @MichaelZiffraMD, a #psychiatrist at @NorthwesternMed. “But you can change these behaviors. You can improve your #AttentionSpan.” @mkeind milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/digit…
Your GP says you should see a hospital specialist for your condition Labour’s new Single Point of Access now decides whether that GP referral goes through They have a target to "redirect" 25% of referrals I wanted to know: who is making that decision? I asked the Minister 👇
Israeli police say a 36-year-old Jewish man has been arrested over this assault on a French nun in occupied East Jerusalem. Video shows her being shoved to the ground and kicked, renewing concern over violence against Israel’s religious minorities.
Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…
