- May 2023
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.[1] The term (German: Apophänie from the Greek verb ἀποφαίνειν (apophaínein)) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.[2] He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".[3][4] He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.[1][5]
link to: - https://boffosocko.com/2022/05/14/55804938/ - Aby Warburg's coinage of Verknüpfungszwang
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- Jan 2023
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Therefore, we propose that flow and hyperfocus are the same phenomenon. Although we are mindful that just because two phenomena are descriptively similar, they are not necessarily mechanistically identical, there is no evidence to suggest that either flow or hyperfocus are distinct.
Ashinoff and Abu-Akel propose an equivalence between "flow" and "hyperfocus". They mention later in this paper that "flow" is more often used in positive psychology literature whereas "hyperfocus" is more often used in psychiatric literature. Even so, they also qualify that they may just appear to be the same (ie, descriptively similar) while having a different cause (ie, mechanism of action).
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- Aug 2022
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Atari, M., Reimer, N. K., Graham, J., Hoover, J., Kennedy, B., Davani, A. M., Karimi-Malekabadi, F., Birjandi, S., & Dehghani, M. (2021). Pathogens Are Linked to Human Moral Systems Across Time and Space. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tnyh9
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- Apr 2022
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pioneerworks.org pioneerworks.org
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Interesting that there's no mention of L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth science fiction series that is a complete satire/send up of the psychiatry industry.
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If by the ’90s, psychiatry had not totally succeeded in winning the public’s belief in its beneficence, there was at least widespread consensus that mental illnesses were disease entities, with as much of a biological basis as cancer or diabetes.
No mention of the dad-nextdoor psychiatrist Dr. Jason Siever portrayed by Alan Thicke on the popular television show Growing Pains that may have helped to calm some of the furor from 1985-1992?
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Neuropsychiatrists at UCLA had found a willing partner in Governor Reagan’s California Department of Justice, to the tune of $750,000 (equivalent to roughly $4.5 million today), and a whopping $1.5 million from the state. It was prominently affiliated with researchers like Vernon Mark and Frank Ervin, who had gained scientific fame for their work creating brain implants in human patients to change behavior and motivation; also on board was former LAPD police chief James Fiske, a man known for terrorizing the city’s Black population.
It looks like Ronald Reagan had issues with mental health care even as far back as the 1970s. This incident at UCLA was just a precursor to defunding state mental health care that was already apparently having issues at the time.
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the ice pick technique was only championed by one enthusiast physician, Walter Freeman, and was roundly decried by other psychiatrists at the time.
The psychiatric use of an ice pick for lobotomies was proposed by physician Walter Freeman, but the idea was roundly decried by other psychiatrists of the time.
Was the shock of the method what drove it into popular culture so solidly?
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Hubbard hadn’t even always been opposed to the psychiatric profession. Soon after Dianetics was published he had attempted to secure APA approval for it. In its early years, Scientology had relied on appearing associated with medical psychiatry to bolster its legitimacy.
L. Ron Hubbard attempted to get the American Psychological Association (APA) to approve his book Dianetics shortly after it was published. Early on Scientology had relied on appearing associated with the medical psychiatry complex to burnish its image.
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- Mar 2022
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Furl, N., McKay, R., & Coltheart, M. (2022, January 29). The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence?. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e37c2
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- Feb 2022
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Bower, Dr Marlee, Scarlett Smout, Amarina Donohoe-Bales, Lily Teesson, Eleisha Lauria, Julia Boyle, Philip Batterham, et al. ‘A Hidden Pandemic? An Umbrella Review of Global Evidence on Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19’. PsyArXiv, 14 January 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bzpvw.
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- Jun 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Berger, K., Riedel-Heller, S., Pabst, A., Rietschel, M., & Richter, D. (2021). Einsamkeit während der ersten Welle der SARS-CoV-2 Pandemie—Ergebnisse der NAKO-Gesundheitsstudie. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k4efw
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- May 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Daly, M., & Robinson, E. (2020). Psychological distress and adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis in the United States [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/79f5v
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jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com
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Kuehn, B. M. (2020). Surge in Child Abuse, Harm During COVID-19 Pandemic Reported. JAMA, 324(7), 621–621. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.14433
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- Mar 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Skalski, Sebastian, Karol Konaszewski, Paweł Dobrakowski, Janusz Surzykiewicz, and Sherman A. Lee. ‘Pandemic Grief in Poland: Adaptation of a Measure and Its Relationship with Social Support and Resilience’. PsyArXiv, 11 January 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/es3rd.
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Heeren, A., HANSEEUW, B., Cougnon, L., & Lits, G. (2021, March 11). Excessive Worrying as the Driving Force of Anxiety During the First COVID-19 Lockdown-Phase in Belgium. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b34aj
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Peris, T. A., & Ehrenreich-May, J. (2021). The Parents are Not Alright: A Call for Parental Mental Health Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xzf2c
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- Feb 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Hossain, M., Rahman, M., Trisha, N. F., Tasnim, S., Nuzhath, T., Hasan, N. T., … Ma, P. (2020, October 31). Prevalence of anxiety and depression in South Asia during COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q4k5b
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- Jan 2021
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www.mhfmjournal.com www.mhfmjournal.com
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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“Cognitive Reframing” is a technique used in therapy where patients are taught to look at things from another perspective. This technique helps patients look at the same event with different points of view, and has been proven to help improve their self-talk and behaviour. We are, after all, made up of the stories we tell ourselves.
Cognitive Reframing - Technique to let patients look at situations from different perspectives.
- Helps with self talk and behavior
- Helps with narratives about ourselves
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opentheory.net opentheory.net
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I’m increasingly suspecting that many psychiatric illnesses will leave a semi-unique fingerprint on someone’s connectome harmonics.
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- Dec 2020
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medium.com medium.com
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Instead of waiting for a magic fairy to appear and eliminate your problem so that you can enjoy life again, you might want to start adding those little positive events back onto your agenda despite the problem still being present
This solution based therapy focuses on trying to get people active and engaged with life even when depressed.
It is important to help patients experience those little positive events. These events can help people get back on track.
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If you need to imagine in concrete detail how you would notice that a problem disappeared, you are challenged to leave vague descriptions like “I’ll be happy”, “I’ll be less annoyed” behind.Vagueness in the end is a cognitive avoidance mechanism. It is easy to ruminate on general emotions and thoughts but very hard to imagine concrete outcomes and changes. We would rather not face precise thoughts, emotions or memories because they can be painful. Better to stay at a safe but vague distance.
This is all about solution based therapy. We need concrete ways of fixing our problems.
Vagueness is a cognitive avoidance strategy. It is a way to avoid digging deep.
It is safer for our feelings to stay vague, but that is not where we need to improve.
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- Oct 2020
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www.collectionscanada.gc.ca www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
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Some legislation allows for treatment to be given in certain circumstances without the patient's volition. For example, irresponsible people with communicable diseases may be treated against their objection, as in the case of patients with tuberculosis who are noncompliant with treatment. Also, all provinces allow for the involuntary admission of patients to psychiatric facilities, provided they present an immediate risk to themselves or others, or are unable to take care of themselves
These highlight cases where you can treat patients without their consent.
Irresponsible people with communicable diseases (e.g. Tuberculosis)
Psychiatry patients that pose an immediate threat to themselves and/or those around them.
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- Sep 2020
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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Stix, G. (n.d.). Zoom Psychiatrists Prep for COVID-19’s Endless Ride. Scientific American. Retrieved June 9, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/zoom-psychiatrists-prep-for-covid-19s-endless-ride1/
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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numerous non-human species suffer from psychiatric symptoms. Birds obsess; horses on occasion get pathologically compulsive; dolphins and whales—especially those in captivity—self-mutilate. And that thing when your dog woefully watches you pull out of the driveway from the window—that might be DSM-certified separation anxiety. "Every animal with a mind has the capacity to lose hold of it from time to time" wrote science historian and author Dr. Laurel Braitman in "Animal Madness
Animals can have psychiatric issues as well.
Examples include:
- Dolphins that self-mutilate when in captivity
- Horses that can get pathologically compulsive
- Brides that obsess
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schizophrenia. Though psychotic animals may exist, psychosis has never been observed outside of our own species; whereas depression, OCD, and anxiety traits have been reported in many non-human species
Humans are the only ones that develop schizophrenia
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- Aug 2020
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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COVIDConversations: Protecting Children/Adolescents’ Mental Health with Professors Stein & Blakemore. (2020, June 24). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laYyNumPQEA&feature=emb_logo
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ps.psychiatryonline.org ps.psychiatryonline.org
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what might be learned from the case. The answer, in part, is that prudent psychiatrists and other therapists will want to be thoughtful about how they arrange follow-up care for patients whom they can no longer see.Sometimes a general suggestion that a patient seek follow-up care will be adequate. However, as the patient's condition warrants, clinicians might choose, in ascending order of time commitment, to provide the patient with the name of a particular practitioner or facility, to contact the facility to ascertain that a clinician is willing to see the patient, to help the patient make an appointment, or, with the patient's permission, to make an appointment on the patient's behalf. In some cases, it may be appropriate to ask for the patient's permission to contact his or her family to indicate a need for follow-up and to encourage the family to make sure that follow-up takes place. But of these approaches, no specific one will always be indicated, and the degree of assistance rendered the patient should be calibrated to his or her individual needs.
What can be learned from this case?
- Carefully plan follow up plans with patients (general suggestion about follow up can be enough)
- Ask patient for family information to help them get involved in the follow up process and help increase compliance.
Consider:
- Giving the specific name of a provider to follow up with
- How to contact the facility,
- See if who you provided/recommended is avaliable to take the patient
- Help patient make the appointment or make it on their behalf (with permission)
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One final questionable aspect of the jury's verdict relates to the legal requirement that before a judgment of malpractice can be reached, any departures from the standard of care must be shown to have been the proximate cause of the resulting harms. The most common test for whether an act or omission constitutes a proximate cause is whether it was reasonably foreseeable at the time that the negligent act occurred that would result in the consequent harms. Williamson had no history of violent behavior and had never revealed a violent impulse during treatment. It is impossible to conclude that he was foreseeably dangerous at the time he was seen by Dr. Liptzin.
The test for proximate cause "is whether it was reasonably foreseeable at the time that the negligent act occurred that would result in the consequent harms"
In this case, Dr. Liptzin, having seen Williamson having no history of violence or anything else, could not reasonably foresee that Williamson was going to do something illegal.
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When a former psychiatric patient killed two people on the streets of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and then sued the psychiatrist who had treated him for failing to prevent the murders, the mental health world dismissed the suit as frivolous. But when a jury agreed with the killer and awarded him $500,000 in damages, bewilderment was the order of the day (1). Can it be true, psychiatrists asked, that murder pays—as long as you can blame your psychiatrist for your deed?
This is the case where it was initially ruled that the psychiatrist was the proximate cause for the patient, Williamson, to commit murder. Subsequent higher courts overturned this decision.
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Patalay, P., & Fried, E. I. (2020, July 29). Prescribing measures: Unintended negative consequences of mandating standardized mental health measurement. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kfj5z
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- Jul 2020
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Senedd.tv (2020, June 09) Children, Young People and Education Committee. http://www.senedd.tv/Meeting/Archive/d1dc8890-9da6-46b9-9a54-67f464138294
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Larionov, P., & Mudło-Głagolska, K. (2020, July 20). Mental health risk factors during COVID-19 pandemic in the Polish population. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3ku8w
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osf.io osf.io
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Hossain, M. M., McKyer, E. L. J., & Ma, P. (2020). Applications of artificial intelligence technologies on mental health research during COVID-19 [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/w6c9b
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Leppanen, J., Tosunlar, L., Blackburn, R., Williams, S., Tchanturia, K., & Sedgewick, F. (2020, July 6). Critical incidents in anorexia nervosa.
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Rauschenberg, C., Schick, A., Hirjak, D., Seidler, A., Apfelbacher, C., Riedel-Heller, S., & Reininghaus, U. (2020). Digital interventions to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public mental health: A rapid meta-review [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uvc78
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Tso, I., & Park, S. (2020). Alarming levels of psychiatric symptoms and the role of loneliness during the COVID-19 epidemic: A case study of Hong Kong [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wv9y2
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Using Smartphone, Social Media, and Sensor Data for Psychological Research (May 13, 2020). (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=vSvnJzCfstU&feature=emb_logo
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Skalski, S., Uram, P., Dobrakowski, P., & Kwiatkowska, A. (2020, May 30). Thinking Too Much About the Novel Coronavirus. The Link Between Persistent Thinking About COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 Anxiety and Trauma Effects. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/p924a
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- May 2020
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www.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org
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Kaufman, K. R., Petkova, E., Bhui, K. S., & Schulze, T. G. (undefined/ed). A global needs assessment in times of a global crisis: World psychiatry response to the COVID-19 pandemic. BJPsych Open, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.25
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Mancini, A. D. (2020, May 28). Heterogeneous Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19: Costs and Benefits. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000894
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Nunes, A., Trappenberg, T., & Alda, M. (2020). The Definition and Measurement of Heterogeneity. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3hykf
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Hossain, M., Tasnim, S., Sultana, A., Faizah, F., Mazumder, H., Zou, L., … Ma, P. (2020, May 27). Epidemiology of mental health problems in COVID-19: a review. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q8e5u
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Zeppegno, P., Gramaglia, C., Guerriero, C., Madeddu, F., & Calati, R. (2020, May 17). Psychological/psychiatric impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak: lessons learnt from China and call for timely crisis interventions in Italy. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z26yk
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Johnson, S. U., Ebrahimi, O. V., & Hoffart, A. (2020, May 20). Level and Predictors of PTSD Symptoms Among Health Workers and Public Service Providers During the COVID-19 Outbreak. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w8c6p
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Youngstrom, E. A., Ph.D., Hinshaw, S. P., Stefana, A., Chen, J., Michael, K., Van Meter, A., … Vieta, E. (2020, April 20). Working with Bipolar Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Both Crisis and Opportunity. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wg4bj
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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McBride, O., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Gibson Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Hyland, P., … Bentall, R. (2020, April 13). Monitoring the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population: an overview of the context, design and conduct of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wxe2n
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Lebel, C., MacKinnon, A., Bagshawe, M., Tomfohr-Madsen, L., & Giesbrecht, G. (2020, April 23). Elevated depression and anxiety among pregnant individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gdhkt
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- Dec 2014
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www.mind.org.uk www.mind.org.uk
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This page could be more reassuring to the many people who have a degree of paranoia which does not interfere with their normal life. In a paranoia scoring scale some items were endorsed by 20-30% of the general population. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2013
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