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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

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The result is a form of “marketing” that encourages self-diagnosis and the embrace of disorders as identity by watering down the definition of mental suffering—and, paradoxically, minimizing understanding and compassion for those who are truly struggling. .’ Still, this extreme openness isn’t completely new — especially online.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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These studies included published and unpublished trials, but all had been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), so Kirsch used the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to all data. In multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6

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

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Other influential figures like Patricia Resick and Charles Marmar emphasized the importance of addressing both objective events and the subjective experience of trauma. ” This diagnostic ambiguity has significant consequences, especially when Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) is applied to conditions that are not necessarily trauma-based.

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Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy

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A lucid dream is any dream where you’re actively aware of the fact that you’re dreaming as the dream is happening. So the elevator pitch is that anything you can treat through hypnotherapy, you can also treat through lucid dreaming whether it’s working with confidence, working with PTSD or childhood trauma.

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The Ouija Board and the Skeptic

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Martin Teicher, a neuroscientist renowned for his work on childhood trauma, has demonstrated how exposure to stress and trauma during critical developmental periods can physically alter the structure and function of the brain. Reach out as best you can to the persons natural self.

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How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis

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Terms like “broken brain,” “childhood trauma,” “unresolved grief,” and “family dysfunction” come to mind. The goal is to make them well-informed. The goal is to disseminate information as widely as possible. This heightened awareness leads him to a breakdown.