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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

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W e are living in an era of unparalleled prosperity, driven by advances in technology that have made the basic necessities of life—food, water, shelter—widely accessible to many. Life in America has generally become easier due to technological advancements. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

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Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. For sleep , between eight and eleven hours of restorative sleep are recommended for teenagers.

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

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The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture,” all these behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder classified in the DSM. Fear of returning to a place where they give you medication and channel you back to mentally ill normality.” 3 These questions are: “What am I missing out on because of fear?

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

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With a vision to transcend the cycle of incarceration into a restorative model of justice, rituals like smudging and cultural education are integrated alongside therapies like acupuncture, itself a technology that was invented by indigenous peoples of the Americas thousands of years ago.