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How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network

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Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.

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Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider

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J essica Schleider is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health ( www.schleiderlab.org ). Most recently, she’s the author of Little Treatments, Big Effects: How To Build Meaningful Moments that Can Transform Your Mental Health.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. The Office on Women’s Health makes similar recommendations as in the StatPearls article, but they place an emphasis on therapy, support groups, self-care, social support before turning to medication.

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The Path from Trauma to The Power of Nature: An Interview with Banning Lyon

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An account of the abuse he suffered after being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility at age 15 and the long journey toward joy and awe that followed, his memoir was published this spring by Penguin Random House. So many kids are looking for community at that age. But here you are, this kid. I could go on and on about it.