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9 Mental Health Books We Loved in 2024

Zencare

Published on January 23, 2025 by Zencare Team. Use this list to add some insightful reads to your TBR in 2025 (and beyond), especially if you've decided to focus on your mental health or therapy this year. Unf*ck Your Brain by Faith G. Harper Ever feel like your brain is working against you? Happy reading!

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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A Therapist’s Perspective on the “Let Them” Theory by Mel Robbins

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Published on February 27, 2025 by Zencare Team. Written by Lily Thrope, LCSW from Thrope Therapy. Mel Robbins Let Them theory has been taking social media by storm and is an aspirational theory for setting boundaries. Considering the complexity of relationships, some therapists warn of the lack of complexity and nuance. Lets break it down.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

Mad in America

Our brain is not a computer, and our heart is not a pump, though the materialistic world view is pretty good at convincing us to believe we are devoid of Spirit, the divine creative part of us which is never wounded and if not eclipsed by legal or illegal substances, is able to always make a choice. People don’t feel heard or seen.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).