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7 surprising strengths of people who’ve had childhood trauma

Dr. Christianheim Preventative Mental Health

As a psychiatrist working with people who have experienced childhood trauma, I often focus on a person’s strengths. Trauma, because it happened in the past, can’t be ‘fixed’ but it can be processed and laid to rest. The brain adapts to find an advantage, a useful edge from almost every experience. It learns to be better.

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

Mad in America

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

Mad in America

Jo: Hi Cathy, thanks for joining me to talk about your new book Unshackled Mind: A Doctors Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. Jo Watson, psychotherapist and founder of Drop the Disorder! Cathy: Initially I wasnt keen on writing another book.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

I was still only 17 years old but it was a great relief after the horrendous years I had spent at an all-girls boarding school. My fellow students and I started our first year ‘pre-clinical’ training with 4 ½ days a week of lectures. Those who failed would have one chance to re-sit and if unsuccessful, they would have to leave medical school.