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

Mad in America

For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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The Power of Journaling: What Science Says About the Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Child Mind Intitute

But did you know that this simple practice of putting pen to paper has decades of scientific backing as a tool for mental health and personal growth? Heres why mental health professionals recommend journaling and what research tells us about its benefits. Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing.

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Finding Strength in Community: Navigating Grief Together with Virtual IOP Support in California

Clear Behavioral Health

Traumatic grief : Unexpected deaths or traumatic events can cause shock, guilt, and confusion, complicating the grieving process. 877.799.1985 Mental Health Implications of Unprocessed Grief When grief goes unaddressed, its physical and mental health consequences can be profound. Related: What is Grief?

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Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder: Strategies for Women

Lightwork

A mental health provider will help determine the most effective treatment combination based on your specific symptoms, lifestyle, and seasonal pattern. Coping Strategies for Women with SAD Living with Seasonal Affective Disorder requires a multi-faceted approach to managing symptoms and maintaining mental well-being.

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

Mad in America

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

Mad in America

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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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.