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Everything About Us Without Us

Mad in America

And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there.

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Addressing Identity and Recovery in Veterans

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

These often include mental health challenges, substance use, and the complex interplay between the two. Veterans also have higher rates of mental health disorders than the civilian population, an additional risk factor for substance use disorder development. It instills a deep sense of purpose, belonging and structure.

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Therapy by Script Undermines Healing; Connection Is the Key

Mad in America

“We need to describe how human beings unfold and become very beautiful when listened to. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content. If this is true, what are we doing sending people off into the eyeshades on their psychedelic journeys? Cloud Shadow With Red Diffusion Light During the Disturbance Period.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Mad in America

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. This holiday has been amazing.

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What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

Mad in America

Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. It represents a hybrid mental state on the edge between wakefulness and sleep, where imagination and reality blur. I experienced waking dreams for the first time in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.