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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

I rushed to the closet and loaded a magazine into a rifle, terrified that the attackers were coming, that they would force me to choose who in my family would die. We incorporated therapy techniques like cognitive-behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

When antidepressants fail bring on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). I have found these “miracle drug breakthroughs” have in common a consistent pattern, one of which is a major cover story in a national magazine, in this case Time magazine. One-third don’t get better with treatment [meaning drug treatment].

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

Ads for the for-profit therapy company BetterHelp are everywhere: on television, public radio, podcasts, social media, and in magazines. She introduced some techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an approach that focuses on helping patients identify irrational thoughts and assumptions and assembling evidence against them.

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