Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And our commonly held psychological theories make it hard for people to make direct contact with depression as a living experience, by framing it as an objective mental disorder to be quickly eliminated. Meditators experience this by observing the ceaseless arising and passing away of their mental and emotional states.

Construction 52

Construction Self-awareness Aging and mental health Technology 52

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. Depression is really more about the energy whether its mental energy or physical energy to make an effective response. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal.

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Nutrition and mood Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

Aging and mental health 142

Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 142

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

Resilience and coping 134

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 134

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

Manufacturing 142

Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 142

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).

Aging and mental health 123

Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Legal 123

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Doctors are beginning to recognize they also fall into the category of “pushers” who do it legally by getting their patients hooked on addictive medications. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.

Trauma and the brain 117

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Legal Sleep and mental health 117