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• ("Bend"), a national provider of pediatric mental health care services for children and families, today announced its digital, measurement-based collaborative care model significantly reduced anxiety and depression symptoms in children and adolescents, according to a new study published in JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting.
• Digital measurement-based care significantly improves symptoms of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents.
• Among 114 patients with elevated anxiety and depressive symptoms, 73.3% with anxiety symptoms and 73.1% with depressive symptoms showed improvement.
• "Digital measurement-based care significantly improves symptoms of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents," said Dr. Monika Roots, Bend co-founder and president.

• Being diagnosed with COVID makes sense of symptoms, determines what we should do about them, and shapes our collective responsibility to the community.
• You have symptoms, the doctor examines or tests you, you get a name for what ails you.
• Even a diagnosis as seemingly clear-cut as COVID is more than just a label stuck to a virus.
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  COVID testing led to new techniques of disease diagnosis: progress mustn’t stop now

Diagnosis as storytelling

• Diagnosis is so important to understanding our lives and those around us that it’s often applied outside of the health setting.
• TV shows such as House use diagnostic mysteries to underpin plots – less Whodunit and more Whatisit.
• A diagnosis is a story, in and of itself.
• You have an infection of your lungs, probably caused by bacteria or a virus and possibly triggered by that cold you had last week.

Stories and deviance

• Diagnostic stories are explanations of deviance.
• By “deviance” we mean the sociological sense of the term: an inability to meet social expectations of behaviour, belief or experience.
• To explain deviance, we often defer to diagnosis.
• More than 150 scientific authors have thrown themselves at finding a diagnosis to explain his deviance.

Medicalising experiences

• These stories say more about us, the diagnosers, and our contemporary views, than the lives of those they seek to describe.
• By using diagnosis to explain people, we medicalise our experience of the world and shut down other avenues of explanation.
• Just as explaining an imaginary character via diagnosis means we’ve lost faith in stories.

• Relief Mental Health , an outpatient provider of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), psychedelic therapy (SPRAVATO® esketamine), psychiatric medication management, and talk therapy, has added smoking addiction treatment in its West Allis location with cutting-edge BrainsWay Deep TMS technology.
• It uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate neurons in parts of the brain, reducing tobacco cravings and increasing cognitive control.
• According to the CDC , smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body.
• “Most adult cigarette smokers want to quit but have trouble doing so on their own,” said Susan Mueller, founder and CEO of Relief Mental Health.

• These agreements, along with growing health system and employer partnerships and self-pay, extend Bend access to all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• "As a mom and child psychiatrist, it's deeply concerning to me that our communities, families, and health system are ill-equipped to support positive mental health development and care," said Dr. Monika Roots, Bend co-founder and president.
• "We started Bend because we believe there is a better way that enables access to preventative services in mental health care like we have in primary care today, while also ensuring emergency service support.
• "This is meaningful progress, and everyone across health care must continue working together to address our national mental health care crisis.