Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early maladaptive schemas were common across trichotillomania, skin-picking and OCD, with stronger associations to focused (emotionally-driven) behaviours.
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Nervousness, irritability, excessive worry, uncontrollable worry… not all anxiety symptoms weigh the same at different ages. This new Chineses study shows how anxiety networks tighten as young people grow older, and where the best intervention targets may lie.
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Niamh Dooley summarises a 2023 paper that investigated trends in psychological distress in the UK across a 28-year period, using data from three representative surveys.
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Ella Bradley, a MSc Global Mental Health student from the University of Glasgow, summarises a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the prevalence of eating disorders in migrants compared to local populations.
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Emma Sullivan summarises a cross-sectional observational study investigating associations between school smartphone policies and mental wellbeing in young people.
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Izah Bowes considers a cross-sectional study exploring urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South: Trinidad, India and Nigeria.
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Emiliana Tonini looks at how sleep is recorded and treated in people with serious mental illness—and how it affects their engagement with services. The study finds that sleep is rarely part of routine clinical assessment, and recommended sleep treatments are hardly ever used.
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Linda Gask blogs a systematic review finding that personal trauma is linked to onset of secondary trauma in mental health professionals.
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In her debut blog, Emma Wallace explores a recent US cross-sectional study, which suggests an exclusive focus on the mental health antecedents of suicide will exclude around 20% of people who attempt to take their own lives.
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Olga Lainidi summarises a network analysis exploring the interconnecting symptoms between PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder, and depression among First Responders based in the United States.
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