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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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Day # 153: Insomnia - Assessment

Bullet Psych

This session will include an overview, definitions, a comparison of primary and secondary insomnia, and an assessment framework. Staying asleep (sleep maintenance). Poor quality of sleep = "non-restorative" sleep. Poor quality of sleep = "non-restorative" sleep.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. Later, bipolar disorder took its place.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In the Bible, atonement, as one online definition states, is the process of fixing relationships that have been broken by wrongdoing.

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Treating Lawyers with Depression: One Psychologist’s Top 10 Tips

Lawyers with Depression

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. Take your mental health seriously. He received his Ph.D.

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

Mad in America

” With my parents, it was definitely a term of affection. Definitely a different era in terms of how this would be handled now. Siem: Often, the extent to which someone can go low correlates to how high they can go, like with mania in bipolar disorder. It was a definite role reversal. Grundy: 68. Siem: 1968.

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

Mad in America

” With my parents, it was definitely a term of affection. Definitely a different era in terms of how this would be handled now. Siem: Often, the extent to which someone can go low correlates to how high they can go, like with mania in bipolar disorder. It was a definite role reversal. Grundy: ’68. Siem: 1968.