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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

Even though I had an A average in college at Colorado State University, I dropped out of CSU in 2013, and having tried over 20 different antidepressants and mood stabilizers since 2011, ECT was recommended to me. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management.

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

Mad in America

I tried many of their useless so-called “medicines,” but in 2011 I ultimately ended up on Lyrica and Zyprexa alongside nine diagnoses. When tapering off a psychiatric drug, you need realistic information, acknowledgement of the severity of the experience, constructive advice, and hope.

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

Child Mind Intitute

Improved sleep quality: Writing a gratitude journal before bed can clear the mind, alleviate worries, and improve sleep by helping people fall asleep faster and experience fewer disruptions in the middle of the night (Digdon & Koble, 2011). A., & Wilhelm, K. Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing. Digdon, N.

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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

In a simple group-behavior paradigm designed to quantify the spontaneous emergence of roles, Roberts and Goldstone (2011) developed a game in which a mystery number between 51 and 100 is randomly generated by a computer and each group member submits their contribution between 0 and 50 without communication. Wertsch (Eds.), Roberts, M.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people. Museums of Madness: The social organisation of insanity in 19th century England. London: Allen Lane. Shakespeare, T. Davis (Ed.),

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Research indicates that 74% of young people with ASD had clinically significant emotional difficulties, such as anger, sadness or anxiety, compared to 18% of TD peers (Totsika, Hastings, Emerson, Lancaster, & Berridge, 2011). These three constructs are what comprise so-called social competence. Theory of mind, 2.) Stichter et al.,