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The mind–money connection: Why financial stress takes a toll Accessing clients’ financial standings can help clinicians identify a possible cause of anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, harmful self-medication, and other issues. “Research has shown that financial stress and our mental health have a cyclical relationship,” said Traci Williams, Ph.D., a Chandler, AZ-based psychologist and certified financial therapist. “This means financial stress can worsen our mental health and our mental health directly impacts how well we earn income and manage our finances.”…

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SPM at the World Orphan Drug Conference The Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) will have a small but important presence at the upcoming World Orphan Drug Congress, June 9-11, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Anyone […] The post SPM at the World Orphan Drug Conference appeared first on SPM Blog.

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Worcester, MA Sued; MA AG Push Back on Mental Health Grants; Gaps in NH Mental Health System; Prison and Mental Health Care Oversight in CT Worcester MA sued over mental health emergency response Advocates have filed a lawsuit against the city of Worcester, alleging its response to mental health-related 911 calls relies too heavily on police rather than trained clinicians. The complaint argues that the city lacks adequate crisis intervention training and points to the discontinuation of a pilot mental health response team as a missed opportunity to provide appropriate care.…

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Their reporting on Medvi was on the level of a glorified press release, something I’d expect from TMZ.

Then Christina Farr’s health-tech newsletter today simply regurgitated the NYT piece.

Not a single mention of the fake doctor profiles that drove the company’s illicit marketing scheme.

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Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA,... The New York Times ran a glowing profile of a company called Medvi that's using AI to sell GLP-1s. The truth is more complicated.

NEW: The NYT ran a glowing profile of a startup using AI to sell GLP-1s. The only problem? The company is using an absolute dumpster fire full of unethical tricks, ranging from fake patients to phony doctors -- and we've got the receipts

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Trump keeps insisting that the JCPOA struck by Obama -- which as you can see here, dropped Iran's uranium stockpile down to nothing -- actually set Iran up as *more* of a threat, when it was his foolish decision to scrap it in his first term that did that.

This is 100% a crisis of his creation.

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Program aims to raise awareness of integrated cardiac care Mental health issues often have physical symptoms and that could not be clearer than when working with cardiac patients. It is a correlation that surprises no one. Distress can affect heart rate and blood pressure, which affects how the heart works. Faced with a life-changing diagnosis or the prospect of a life-threatening medical procedure, people often experience increased fear and anxiety, which can, in turn, affect medical outcomes.…

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Poetry in a time of war April is National Poetry Month, but this year it is also the second full month of our involvement in a new war in the Middle East. On the face of things, it seems trivial to talk about poetry when bombs are falling and people are dying. And yet, if poetry offers benefits for our psychological health as centuries of human experience say it does, then it is worth taking up the challenge and the opportunity to reflect on the uses of poetry in times of war.…

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Orange man's budget makes clear that he & GOP:

- Hate small business (67% cut to SBA)
- Hate clean air & water (52% cut to EPA)
- Hate education (trying to dump Edu Dept)
- Hate healthy Americans (13% cut to HHS)
- Hate space exploration (23% cut to NASA)

❤️ LOVES wars + military (42% increase) ❤️

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Hope we're proud of ourselves. A whole generation of an entire country of 93 million people will now hate America & Americans.

Another 500+ million people in the Middle East will also hate America for dragging them into a war none of them asked for.

Great job, America. (But, sure, MAGA!!!)

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Quick takeaway: permissive gun laws just means gun owners are more likely to have means to take their own lives.

Maybe a Darwinian thing?

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State Gun Laws and Firearm Suicide Rates This cross-sectional study examines whether state-level firearm laws are associated with firearm-related suicide deaths across all 50 US states over a 49 year period.

States with 1, 2, or all 3 of these laws (handgun permit requirements, waiting periods, and concealed carry permits) had progressively lower firearm suicide rates.

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Firearm suicide rates varied 8-fold across states in 2024 (1.8 deaths per 100 000 in New York vs 15.1 deaths per 100 000 in Wyoming). Handgun permit laws, waiting periods & requirements for a license for concealed carry were significantly associated with decreases in firearm suicide rates.

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You know you’re being lied to when someone says an army and navy have been decimated, yet they’re still controlling a worldwide key trade route & shooting down your fighter jets.

Lied to Americans about Vietnam. About Iraq. And now about Iran.

When will Americans learn?!????

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Wait until Iran starts parading captured American soldiers on TV.

Americans' stomach for a full-scale war with another country is not what Orange man thinks it is.

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Pretty telling that you’re up to no good when you fire everyone on two independent review commissions, then appoint your friends & campaign donors to those same committees to rubber-stamp whatever it is you want to do.

In orange man’s case, it was destroying a section of the White House.

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Introducing the CHAMP Principal Investigator: Cait DesRoches (Part 2) Editor’s Note: Kevin recently spoke with Cait DesRoches, who was named Principal Investigator for the Society of Participatory Medicine’s signature project, CHAMP, the Collaborative Health Care Action Measurement Platform. This […] The post Introducing the CHAMP Principal Investigator: Cait DesRoches (Part 2) appeared first on SPM Blog.

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Program focuses on training clinicians to work with veterans A graduate training program at William James College is preparing clinicians to work more effectively with servicemembers, veterans, and their families, a population often described as having distinct cultural and clinical needs. The Train Vets to Treat Vets (TVTV) program combines academic coursework, supervised clinical training, and mentorship for students, many of whom have military affiliations.…

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Orange man starts a war unilaterally. THEN asks for help from NATO allies. No President with respect for his allies acts this way.

Now he wants to leave, having left destruction & chaos in the Middle East, shutting down a major transit sector. "Not my problem," he says.

What a total arse.

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Just remember that every time Orange man talks about people coming in from "mental institutions," it's not because he believes it. It's because he conflated people seeking "asylum" (e.g., political asylum) with the only thing he knew -- "insane asylums." A term not in common usage for decades.

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Bills to regulate AI ‘therapy’ may miss the mark Following several recent, high-profile situations in which chat engines have encouraged suicidal behavior, U.S. legislators acted to put some of the first restrictions on AI. Across New England, states have introduced legislation with a goal of protecting people from the harmful behaviors of artificial intelligence-based “therapy.” However, some experts feel the proposed bills are not properly directed and merit further discussion and study to ensure stated goals are met.…

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Lying liars gonna lie…

Orange man administration keeps claiming they are only deporting the “worst of the worst.”

Time and time again, the data say otherwise.

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