Richard Sears

Three new papers argue that lived experience is essential to mental health recovery while highlighting the stigma, role confusion, and organizational barriers that continue to limit peer support workers' impact.

Researchers followed more than 48,000 adults for five years and found mortality risk increased with dose, with overdose and suicide accounting for the largest increases in preventable deaths.

Three new studies out of China link adverse childhood experiences to poorer mental health in adolescents, highlighting the roles of parenting, stress, self-hate, rumination, and resilience.

A new state-commissioned evaluation finds that people under court-ordered Assisted Outpatient Treatment had outcomes comparable to those receiving

Four new studies examine how financial stress, debt, and perceived financial well-being are associated with anxiety, depression, suicidality, and loneliness.

Research from Switzerland, Poland, Canada, and the US finds that social marginalization, immigration status, education, sex, and psychiatrists' own

Participants report inadequate information, dismissed concerns about negative effects, and little say in treatment decisions.

This week, Mad in America explores three studies out of China around adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The first finds parents’ ACEs are linked to Three new studies out of China link adverse childhood experiences to poorer mental health in adolescents, highlighting the roles of parenting, stress, self-hate, rumination, and resilience.

Three new papers challenge the evidence for long-term antidepressant treatment and highlight how inadequate information, poor communication, and

A global survey of mental-health professionals reveals substantial gaps between the use, recognition and reporting of coercive practices.