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2017: My Descent Into Mayhem

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The first was in 2017. I speculate now about withdrawal akathisia, extreme sleep deprivation, spiritual awakening, deep awareness, empathy and sensory experiencing, an invalidating environment, defensiveness, corruption and spiritual attack. Simultaneously, however, the return to work brought a return of some element of self-worth.

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

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Insel left NIMH to lead the mental health team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences); then in 2017, co-founded Mindstrong Health, where he promoted digital phenotyping (which, for example, includes the monitoring of patient smartphone text messages to gauge mental illness). Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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Letting Go of Lithium

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I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

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A Victim Re-Victimised

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She insisted that I was mentally ill and should be taken to the Cowdy Ward, the psychiatric abuse facility at the Royal Darwin Hospital. She stalked the police car to the hospital. She advised the hospital that my ex-husband, children, friends, and family should refrain from contacting me. I was terrified. I wanted to leave.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

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Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. ” Yet, all the elements describing that cursed disorder, except for the tendency to engage in random fights with strangers, appeared to mirror my own self. It was a wholly unfamiliar dynamic they had never encountered before.

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

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Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. This shut down can result in complete immobilization or a fear of such immobilization, both of which are psychologically painful, and this can result in the pain of self-loathing and shame.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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2017: The latest psychiatric depression drug “breakthrough”: “Here we go again”. The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic. The patient has to come into the hospital or clinic twice a week for four weeks. according to the maker.