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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. Efforts at Self-Regulation Being placed in psychiatric hospitals at a rate of almost once per year was greatly disturbing, and it provided me with motivation to get my situation under control.

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What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

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Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. I grew up in China and immigrated to the U.S.

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Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

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That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. In one final location after which we returned home a young senior resident engaged me in a conversation and we talked mental health. Earlier in the year, in January of 2024, my father passed away.

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

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This interview of Anniek Lemmens by Mad in the Netherlands’ Monique Timmermans first appeared on Mad in the Netherlands on February 24, 2024. Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? I‘m happy to see Anniek, 40 years old, again.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

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The young dancer’s story—at her request and her father’s, she’ll remain anonymous—illustrates both the lure and harms of social media, which has been drawing more and more attention of late for its ubiquity, its addictiveness, its corporate habits, and its role in the youth mental health crisis. hours a day on social media.”