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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

While some degree of worry is normal for new parents, postpartum anxiety is characterized by persistent, excessive worry, intrusive thoughts, and physical symptoms such as restlessness, sleep disturbance that interfere with daily functioning and maternal well-being. The clinical presentation of postpartum anxiety is diverse.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. From 2001 to 2008, I was hospitalized for mania at a rate of almost once per year (7 times in 8 years)—including one month-long hospitalization.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological. The author, Erik Rudi.

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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. However, psychotherapy or psychiatric treatment weren’t native concepts rooted in our local context.

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Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation With Arturo Hernandez

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

00:05:29.050] – Arturo Hernández I I think probably the most interesting one for me was in Lipsig because Leipzig at the time when I first went, it was 2001. Is it really the case that technology causes people to have more mental health issues, or Or are we just more sensitive to mental health issues than we were before?

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Alcohol Detox and Withdrawal: Symptoms and Treatments 

Clear Behavioral Health

When feeling more confident about the detox process, you make the right choice for your health and future. Within the first 24 hours, the initial mental and physical symptoms will surface from alcohol withdrawal syndrome [1]. As experts in alcohol detox and withdrawal treatment in Los Angeles, CA, were here to help.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

Mad in America

Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to mental health care. For centuries, this dargah had attracted pilgrims from diverse faiths, all drawn by the belief in the shrine’s miraculous powers to cure mental ailments brought on by evil spirits, djinns , and black magic.