Stigma towards mental illness in Asian nations and low-and-middle-income countries, and comparison with high-income countries: A literature review and practice implications.

Background: Stigma related to mental illness (and its treatment) is prevalent worldwide. This stigma could be at the structural or organizational level, societal level (interpersonal stigma), and the individual level (internalized stigma). Vulnerable populations, for example, gender minorities, children, adolescents, and geriatric populations, are more prone to stigma.

[Working conditions among Mental Healthcare workers at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina].

Introduction: The current COVID-19 pandemic highlights the different difficulties that healthcare workers have to face in this context. In order to quantify some aspects of the current working situation, the Asociación de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA) designed a survey for Mental Healthcare workers. The goal was to: measure and know what are the working conditions of those working in Mental Health in Argentina, in this pandemic context.

[Psychotic major depressive episode: target symptoms in males and females].

Frequently Major Depressive Episodes in patients with psychotic features are not obvious as in other patients with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, that makes difficult to carry out the diagnosis. The results (n= 48) show bigger occurrence of depressed mood, somatic symptoms and decreased motor activity (HAM-D), and show differences in depression when the corporal disorder take characteristic predominant. Psychotic symptoms was suspiciousness and unusual thought content (BPRS).