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Journal of Mental Health Disorders
ISSN: 2770-761X
2024
Volume 4, Issue 1, p1-81
Articles published in this issue are Open Access and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY NC) where the readers can reuse, download, distribute the article in whole or part by mentioning proper credits to the authors.
Understanding Anxiety
Matthew Rensi, James Geisler, Justin Jacques, Charles Silber
This study is the first of its kind to diachronically analyze how the use of language surrounding anxiety has changed in each version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Using corpus linguistic technology, the collocations of the word “anxiety” were analyzed and ranked using log dice to determine the strength of associations both within and across each version of this clinical guide.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p1-7 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.019
Commentary on Studies Citing This Author Concerning Doodling as a Measure of Burnout
Carol Nash
The ability of doodling to act as an indicator of depression and anxiety regarding research burnout is a topic that has seen the publication of six articles by this author since 2021. This commentary aims to determine the extent to which any of these articles have been cited by subsequent researchers in furthering the literature on doodling. The keywords “C Nash Doodling Burnout” were searched through Google Scholar in February 2024 with 142 returns.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p8-12 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.020
Australian School Based Interventions Addressing Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review
Harshi Gunawardena, Alexander Voukelatos, Rachel Wilson, Shane Cross, Ian B. Hickie
Aim: Prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents is between 3% to 30% worldwide. Since countries differ in geopolitical contexts, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for a coordinated effort to report on local contexts. We aim to address this gap by providing a review of effectiveness of Australian school-based mental health interventions and identifying success factors for school-based implementation.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p13-30 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.021
Combination of Journalism and Psychological Studies: Recommendations for Research on PTSD and Fake News Belief under Natural Disasters
Lan Lin, Chen Gong
We are writing to express our appreciation for the recent publication of the study titled “PTSD, FOMO and fake news beliefs: a cross-sectional study of Wenchuan earthquake survivors” [1]. This study offers valuable insights into the intricate connections among posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), fear of missing out (FOMO), and beliefs in fake news. The authors have selected individuals who were affected by the earthquake as a sample to investigate the correlation between FOMO and belief in fake news, which presents a unique and innovative situation.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p31-33 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.022
Academic Major and Mental Health among Chinese College Students
Jie Zhang, Sibo Zhao
Background: A college student's academic major is not always the total free choice of the student in Chinese universities. If a student is not enrolled in the program, he/she has chosen, the student is usually placed in an academic program at the university's discretion. Further, a Chinese college student is usually required to finish and graduate from the program he/she has started in the freshman year. If a student does not like the academic major yet has to complete it, the student may feel frustrated during the years of college education and may experience certain psychopathological problems.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p34-42 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.023
Self-compassion, Job-related Wellbeing, Perceived Stress, Happiness and Depression, and Anxiety Symptoms in 6 Cases of Senior Managers of Human Resources or Organizational Development
Ema N. Gruber, Sanja Martic-Biocina
Introduction: Recent studies suggest that compassion, particularly self-compassion, is often perceived as contrary to effective leadership and organizational success, that self-compassion, which impacts emotion regulation through the acceptance of negative emotions, may be an adaptive strategy for managing stress and benefit for resilience at work, and that self-compassion is associated with happiness and inversely related to anxiety and depression. This can be taken together with the importance of job-related affective well-being, where low LPLA (Low Pleasurable Low Arousal emotions) and high LPHA (Low Pleasurable High Arousal emotions) can correlate to depression, anxiety, and stress.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p43-49 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.024
Bipolar Disorders and Seasonality
Michel Bourin
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe and common neurodevelopmental psychiatric illness (1 to 4% of the general population). The severity and prognosis of this disease is partly linked to a high rate of recurrence of mood episodes with 70 to 80% relapses on average 2 years after a major episode (depressive or manic), despite treatments. These recurrences may follow a seasonal cyclicity for a significant number of patients.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p50-56 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.025
HDAC Dynamics and GR Signaling: Neurobiological Insights and Antidepressant Potential
Shashikant Patel, Sumana Chakravarty
Histone deacetylases (HDACs) and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) signaling are critical in regulating gene expression and stress responses. Vorinostat, an HDAC inhibitor, shows significant promise in treating depression by modulating these pathways. This commentary explores HDAC inhibitor’s mechanisms, therapeutic potential, and the challenges in clinical application. It compares the effects of various HDAC inhibitors on GR signaling and neuroplasticity, emphasizing the importance of personalized treatment approaches.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p57-62 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.026
Positive Implications of Life Adversity Revisited: The Christianity Perspective of Religious Self-esteem (RSE)
Lufanna C. H. Lai
It is widely agreed that life adversity is inevitable in human life. In fact, it exerts deleterious effects on mental health and wellbeing [1-4]. Empirically, life adversity has been attested to have a strong association with mental health problems such as affective and anxiety disorders [5-7], personality disorders [8,9], depression [8], and post-traumatic stress disorder [6,8]. Despite the negative effects on humans, life adversity has been demonstrated to have beneficial effects.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p63-66 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.027
Breaking with Our Heritage Mental Health – Empowerment
Jean-Paul Close
My article “identity and authenticity: breaking with our heritage for sustainable regional human development” [1] was motivated by a global academic encounter in the University of Urbino (Italy). It had been organized by the European SPES1 “Business and Spirituality” initiative. The meeting and related publications discussed “place-based approaches to sustainability.” This basically refers to the local sustainable development of municipalities and regions, as opposed to the general era of finance based globalization.
J Ment Health Disord, 2024, Volume 4, Issue 1, p67-81 | DOI: 10.33696/mentalhealth.4.028
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