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How I Learned to Safely Taper off Psychiatric Drugs, and You Can Too

Mad in America

I first went to a psychiatrist in 2008 as the transition from being a university student to an adult life had proved quite overwhelming for me and resulted in feelings of anxiety and depression. Constructive and helpful expertise is the rarest and most valuable commodity when tapering a psychiatric drug.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

Wallace hanged himself in 2008 after withdrawing from a long-term medication, experiencing unbearable withdrawal symptoms and finding himself unable to regain relief (such as it was) in his old medication or new ones prescribed to him. Finally, I am surrounded by people who hear me, support me, and want me to be well.

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

Child Mind Intitute

Effects of constructive worry, imagery distraction, and gratitude interventions on sleep quality: A pilot trial. Boosted immunity: Writing about traumatic experiences can improve immune function by boosting lymphocyte activity, a key component of the immune system (Pennebaker, Kiecolt-Glaser, & Glaser, 1988; Stanton et al., Digdon, N.

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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

These bidirectional influences between the team and its individuals add complexity beyond standard individual-centric approaches to cognition but also offer the possibility that psychological scientists will be able to develop more sophisticated accounts of cognition than any of us could possibly have constructed on our own. Barnier, A.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Bateman & Fonagy, 2008). Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., Bateman, 2012). Theory of mind, 2.)

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” A 2008 paper pulled together 74 studies for the twelve leading antidepressants. 2008) Rush, John, Thase, Michael. 2008) Turner, Erick, et al. I’ll mention two. It gets worse.