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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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This represents a significant shift in PTSD diagnoses from predominantly affecting men in the 1980s, when men constituted about 70% of diagnosed cases, to now predominantly affecting women, who by 2020 made up 70% of diagnosed cases. Jonathan Haidt has described the current generation as fragile due to being overprotected and less resilient.

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Guided Dreaming Can Transform Psychosocial Issues: 11 Case Studies

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Consequently, many individuals resort to self-medication to cope with overwhelming emotions, underscoring the urgent need for more efficient holistic solutions. After the session, she felt renewed resilience to face life’s challenges. Dreaming is a universal yet underutilized mental health resource.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Thanks to a variety of therapies and social factors, I had managed to develop a positive self-image and resilience that made life truly worth living again. I tapered off citalopram with tapering strips between October 2019 and January 2020. Between April 2020 (last pill) and August (4 months later), I was not that worried yet.

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Back-to-School Support & Teen Mental Health Treatment: Practical Tips for Parents

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A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2]. Our trained mental health professionals are here to support teens in managing complex stress and developing effective coping skills to carry forward in their lives. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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Approximately one year later in July 2020, the FCC adopted rules to begin establishing #988, and in October of the same year, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act was signed into law. Jen: “In order to more safely cope with what is going on in a way that does not cause you harm.” What a terrible and downright dangerous idea.

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020. This same individualistic, illness-based bias is evidenced in an article, “Stress in America 2021,” which described the how physical health was harmed by individuals’ inability to cope in healthy ways with the stress of the pandemic. Some examples illustrate this.

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

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Her way of coping with the family and our situation had stopped working. But her humor, her logic, and her resilience are incredible. ” Shes fighting her bitterness about that, but her resilience amazes me. She stayed on Clozaril for 20 years, until COVID hit in 2020. I think she was just fed up. She just broke.