Mental Health

WAILEA, Hawaii — Patients with vitiligo, especially those with darker skin types, report negative impacts on their mental health and quality of life due to their disease, according to a poster presented at Maui Derm for Dermatologists.

In a Healio exclusive video, Tina Aswani Omprakash, a presenter at the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress, shares her experience with cultural competency as it relates to mental health and surgery for inflammatory bowel disease.

The American Psychiatric Association Foundation has joined the Mental Health Coalition to further efforts in reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness, according to an organizational release.

Two-thirds of Americans with treatment-resistant anxiety, depression or PTSD believe that psychedelics should be made available for therapeutic means, according to U.S. adults who took part in a survey conducted by The Harris Poll.

Mental health worsened overall in older adults in the U.K. as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, affecting women and those without partners to a greater extent, according to a longitudinal cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Virtual reality-based interventions have shown effectiveness in improving symptoms of paranoia in patients, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.

Esmethadone produced fast and consistent positive outcomes in patients for whom previous treatments for depression were not effective, according to a randomized, double-blind study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Support from parents and other important adults was crucial in staving off depression and anxiety among students during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found.

Patients with personality disorders experienced worsened symptoms, some of which have not improved, during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an observational retrospective study published in Psychiatry Research.

Negative mental health effects and increased substance use caused by the COVID-19 pandemic were more common in the LGBTQ community, according to a repeated cross-sectional monitoring survey conducted in Canada.