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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. I do know that I was also hospitalized in 2005, just as Hurricane Katrina was getting ready to make landfall. First, how many hours of sleep did I get the night before?

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The Power of Journaling: What Science Says About the Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Child Mind Intitute

But did you know that this simple practice of putting pen to paper has decades of scientific backing as a tool for mental health and personal growth? Heres why mental health professionals recommend journaling and what research tells us about its benefits. Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing.

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Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

Mad in America

In one final location after which we returned home a young senior resident engaged me in a conversation and we talked mental health. I kept thinking he would get better, for that was the norm in our family, we had all dealt with intractable health issues. I recorded it in 2005. I was calm and loud.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

Mad in America

Philips AIDS Center in a village near Anjar, Gujarat was established by Father Paul on 11 January 2005, after he lost his nephew Philip, 31 years old to AIDS. Jaya ben had been diagnosed with ‘psychosis unspecified’ along with HIV, and has been on different anti-psychotics and sleeping aids for more than 5 years.