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2017: My Descent Into Mayhem

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The first was in 2017. It might have been the re-activation of deeply rooted childhood trauma brought on by situations in my workplace. Simultaneously, however, the return to work brought a return of some element of self-worth. I returned to hospital in late February 2017 and was discharged in early April.

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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

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The result is a form of “marketing” that encourages self-diagnosis and the embrace of disorders as identity by watering down the definition of mental suffering—and, paradoxically, minimizing understanding and compassion for those who are truly struggling. I feel like a seventy-five-year-old being like, ‘ These kids on the internet!’

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

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). In the long-term, outcomes are worse. among those who were on probation.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma.