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Thinking About Thinking: The Psychosis Therapy That Helps Most Where Insight Is Weakest

An individual-participant analysis of 614 people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders found metacognitive training improved cognitive insight most in those who started with the least — explaining years of mixed trial results.

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Baseline Cognitive Insight Predictor of Metacognitive Training Efficacy in Psychosis — ScienMag, October 27, 2026, reporting Frontiers in Psychology

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One in Three Young Adults Is Asking a Chatbot About Drugs

A Rutgers study published in JMIR Formative Research found 32 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 29 have used generative AI for substance-related information — mostly about risks — and largely trust what it tells them.

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One in three young adults turns to AI for substance use — News-Medical, October 26, 2026, reporting Rutgers Health / JMIR Formative Research

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AJ Is a Character. Alex Is Who I Am: AJ McLean on Five Years Sober

Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean, sober for over five years, explains why he is touring under his birth name, Alexander James, and how therapy and boundaries rebuilt the man behind the character.

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AJ McLean Says 'AJ' Is a Character: 'Alex Is Who I Am' (Exclusive) — The Spun, reporting AJ McLean's exclusive interview with Men's Journal

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He Gambled Away a Quarter of a Million Dollars in a Year. Now He Tells the Story Out Loud

For Gambling Harm Awareness Week in Victoria, lived-experience speaker Fred Rubinstein — who gambled away a $250,000 inheritance in a single year — shared his recovery story in Morwell on October 26.

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Gambling Harm Awareness Week Lived Experience Speaker — Latrobe Community Health Service via TryBooking, event October 26, 2026

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'I Was on a Show About Recovery — and Then I Lived It': Anna Faris on Eighteen Months Sober

Anna Faris revealed she has been sober for a year and a half in an October 15 Instagram statement responding to Chuck Lorre's memoir — 'I was on a show about recovery, and then I lived it.'

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Anna Faris Says She's Been Sober For 18 Months, Remains Proud Of 'Mom' — OK! Magazine, October 24, 2026

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Not Quite Well: The Lingering Depression Hiding Inside Bipolar Recovery

A 2026 study of 133 bipolar I outpatients found that mild depression symptoms lingering between episodes came with poorer functioning, nearly double the self-stigma, and more anxiety and impulsivity.

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Lingering Depression Symptoms in Bipolar Disorder Linked to Poorer Functioning — Mental Health Daily, October 27, 2026, reporting Brain Sciences

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Four Questions, Fifteen Countries: Depression and Anxiety Weigh Almost as Heavily as Chronic Illness

In a study of more than 62,000 adults in 15 countries, four questions about depression and anxiety predicted how people rated their health almost as strongly as their number of chronic illnesses.

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How Depression & Anxiety Affect Quality of Life — Psychreg, reporting a study published in BMJ Mental Health (Oxford Brookes University, National University of Singapore, Taylor's University, University of Oxford)

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The Largest Ketamine Therapy Trial Yet: Manchester Joins the Test for Severe Alcohol Addiction

Greater Manchester has joined MORE-KARE, the largest study yet of ketamine-assisted therapy for severe alcohol use disorder, and people in treatment there can now apply to take part.

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Greater Manchester Mental Health joins largest ever study of ketamine-assisted therapy for alcohol disorder — Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Sound Waves, Not Surgery: A Ten-Minute Ultrasound Session Eased Delusions in Schizophrenia

A single ten-minute session of focused ultrasound aimed at a deep brain circuit reduced delusions in people with schizophrenia whose symptoms persisted despite medication, in the first sham-controlled pilot test of the technique for psychosis.

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Gentle brain ultrasound may help ease delusions in schizophrenia — MedicalXpress (Oct 20, 2026), on "Transcranial ultrasound stimulation of the right globus pallidus interna in schizophrenia: A randomized, sham-controlled pilot study," npj Acoustics (2026), DOI 10.1038/s44384-026-00076-3. Study team: NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Targeted ultrasound waves safely reduce delusions in people with schizophrenia — News-Medical (Oct 20, 2026)

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He Lost £40,000 to Gambling. Now He Helps Other Men Talk About It

A new Andy's Man Club group in Leeds is tackling gambling addiction head on, led by facilitators like Tom Fleming, who lost forty thousand pounds before seeking help.

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Andy's Man Club launches first support group for gambling addiction — Yorkshire Evening Post

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