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World Mental Health Day

10.October 2025 KS

Between likes and fear: How social networks "destroy" young people

Social networks are more and more widespread, especially among young people, and how they affect mental health

Chronicle

27.August 2025 Milica Srejić

A teenager committed suicide with the help of ChatGPT: Where were the parents?

News came from America that sixteen-year-old AR committed suicide, and that his parents are blaming ChatGPT for it. A series of questions follows: what is the role of parents in all this?; how to prevent such situations? Finally, can kids tell the difference that the technology behind ChatGPT is the technology and not the human?

Mental health

08.August 2025 KS

Why is there a shortage of antidepressants in Serbia?

The shortage of antidepressants containing venlafaxine, such as Venlax, Advent and others, has hit pharmacies throughout Serbia. The replacement medicine will reportedly arrive on the domestic market only next week

Essay

25.December 2024 Nebojsa Brocic

The golden age is… now?

The perception of the world that seems to prevail is dark, there is a sense of personal and collective confusion, even fear, a dystopian future is seen as almost certain. But the facts are different

Research

26.August 2024 Filip Wunderze / DW

Video games as medicine: Super Mario helps fight depression

"Video game training as an adjunct to hospital treatment of people suffering from depression can lead to improvements in their clinical symptoms and visuospatial memory," explains neuropsychiatrist Moritz Bergman from the University Hospital of Bonn.

Matthew Perry

22.May 2024. MP / RTS

Los Angeles Police: An investigation is underway as to how the actor obtained a large amount of ketamine

Ketamine in Matthew Perry's body caused excessive stimulation of the cardiovascular system and respiratory depression, the doctor reported. Now it is being investigated how he got the ketamine

Science

19.May 2024. DW

Psychedelic for depression: You shouldn't lick frogs, though

Toad venom from the Colorado River region is one of the strongest psychedelics. Scientists have a great idea to prepare these substances so that they help with depression, but do not cause hallucinations

Mental health of students

13.February 2024. Mila Stojanovic

Wrestling with the demands and challenges of society

Anxiety and depression are solvable problems and it is very important to start treatment as early as possible, points out doctor Dušanka Vučinić Latas and emphasizes that the most important thing is to turn to a professional for assessment, which are exclusively clinical psychologists and psychiatrists: "We should always be careful 'to whom we give soul in hands', because in our environment there are a lot of trained and fake therapists, and that can be very dangerous for a young person in development who has some psychological problem"

Mental health

15.January 2024 Sanja Zrnić

Blue Monday: Making fun of depression

"Blue Monday" has been declared the most depressing day of the year. It was designed as a marketing strategy of a British travel agency. Like many cheap tricks, it contributes to making sense of the real problems that millions of people struggle with every day

Mental health

06.August 2023 MJ

New drug for postpartum depression approved in the US

On August 4, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved zuranolone, or Zurzuvae, for the treatment of postpartum depression

Social networks and mental health

20.June 2023 Anna Elez

Tik Tok: Liking depression

"In our practice, we often meet young people who interpret their behavior based on videos posted on social networks. Based on that, they diagnose themselves, most often depression and bipolar disorder, because they recognize some of the symptoms in their behavior," says special pedagogue Ljiljana Marković.

Comment

21.January 2022 Jovana Gligorijevic

Tabloids and suicide: Dangerous trampling on everyone's dignity

Such reporting on suicide, as we have in Serbia, puts those who are at risk of suicide in direct danger. The "Werther effect" is the name given to the phenomenon of an increased number of suicides when one specific case is widely and incorrectly reported

Comment

10.December 2021 Jovana Gligorijevic

Media and Internet: Death of Krisita Kika Đukić

Kristina Kika Đukić, a twenty-one-year-old YouTuber from Belgrade, died on Thursday. Her name meant nothing to many until yesterday, until it was known that she comes from the YouTube scene and that children and teenagers know very well who she is.