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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

Mad in America

My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

Mad in America

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

Mad in America

These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs. Depression is undoubtedly a major health problem, but I believe the soaring “increase” is a fiction and not real.

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One Wife’s Story of Her Husband’s Struggles with Depression in Law School

Lawyers with Depression

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.

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Depression as a Loss of Heart

Lawyers with Depression

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. Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem.

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Unpacking Depression: An Interview with Psychologist Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg

Lawyers with Depression

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