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“Thinking too much”: A systematic review of a common idiom of distress

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It is suggested that "thinking too much" should not be interpreted as a gloss for psychiatric disorder nor assumed to be a unitary symptom or syndrome within a culture, and five key ways in which engagement with "thinkingToo much" idioms can improve global mental health research and interventions are suggested.
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This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2015-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 212 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Global mental health & Mental health.

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How is depression experienced around the world? A systematic review of qualitative literature

TL;DR: The DSM model and standard instruments currently based on the DSM may not adequately reflect the experience of depression at the worldwide or regional levels according to a systematic review of qualitative studies of depression worldwide.
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Detection of depression in low resource settings: validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and cultural concepts of distress in Nepal

TL;DR: Combining idioms of distress with a transculturally-translated depression screener increases efficiency and maintains accuracy for high levels of detection.
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Psychological therapies for the treatment of mental disorders in low‐ and middle‐income countries affected by humanitarian crises

TL;DR: To compare the effectiveness and acceptability of psychological therapies versus control conditions aimed at treating people with mental disorders living in LMICs affected by humanitarian crises, 36 randomised controlled trials were conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia.
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Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

TL;DR: Styron as discussed by the authors describes depression as "a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self, to the mediating intellect, as to verge close to being beyond description".
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

TL;DR: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) was translated by psychiatrists and psychologists, mainly from the University psychiatric hospital Vrapce and published by the Naklada Slap publisher.
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (vol 380, pg 2197, 2012)

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive update of disease burden worldwide incorporating a systematic reassessment of disease and injury-specific epidemiology has been done since the 1990 study, and the authors aimed to calculate disease burden globally and for 21 regions for 1990, 2005, and 2010 with methods to enable meaningful comparisons over time.
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Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

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TL;DR: The results for 1990 and 2010 supersede all previously published Global Burden of Disease results and highlight the importance of understanding local burden of disease and setting goals and targets for the post-2015 agenda taking such patterns into account.
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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition

TL;DR: Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that diagnosing illness is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor.
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