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Tweets from the editors of the world's mental health journal. Photo credit: Esther Maxwell-Orumbie and Beth Elliott

The Lancet Psychiatry’s Tweets

“I wanted to learn about the difficulty of everyday life for people experiencing psychosis...and her patients taught me about their lived experiences of psychosis directly” -- artist Marcus Coates on his series of 5 films, The Directors New Essay
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"Anti-stigma programmes are most effective when people with lived experience are involved as co-producers in all aspects of development, and when target groups are consulted on programme content and delivery." Our Editorial for #WorldMentalHealthDay
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"It is time to end all forms of stigma and discrimination against people with mental health conditions, for whom there is double jeopardy: the impact of the primary condition and the severe consequences of stigma." New Commission
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"Given the bidirectional association between HIV and tuberculosis and mental ill health...any strategy to eliminate HIV and tuberculosis must address the mental health and psychosocial needs of those who are infected or at risk of infection" New Comment
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"It is essential that all health-care professionals and other individuals offering first-line responses and sustaining care have trauma-focused awareness of the potential mental health sequelae of sexual violence." Linked Comment
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"Contrary to previous studies, we found evidence that the symptoms of patients with major depressive disorder and childhood trauma significantly improve after pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments" New research Article
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"As the number of deaths under provisions in the recently revised medical assistance in dying law increases, its impending expansion is to include individuals with mental illness." World Report in by Paul Webster
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Attending #IAYMH2022 in Copenhagen next week? Our Senior Editor, Sophia Davis, is attending and invites you to contact her directly with submission inquiries or general queries about publishing with The Lancet Psychiatry
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"The MTSP [China's Management and Treatment Services for Psychosis] is an innovative service model to tackle mental health problems in low-resource settings; however, its problems should not be neglected." Comment by Wei Zhou & Shuiyuan Xiao
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"Childhood trauma is common. Establishing diagnoses and mechanisms are one response to trauma, but mental health services should also focus on what happened to someone and how best to support them." October Editorial
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"Prolonged exposure to low-dose lithium could be one of several routes towards identifying how this environmental, bioavailable mineral could help patients with bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder while averting chronic renal problems." Comment
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