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How EMDR Therapy Can Help Lawyers Overcome Depression

Lawyers with Depression

Yet, behind the polished courtroom arguments and carefully constructed contracts lies a more troubling reality: lawyers experience disproportionately high rates of depression, anxiety, and burnout. Introduction The legal profession is known for its prestige, intellectual challenge, and social impact.

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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

Virginia Knowlton Marcus plays this liaison role as CEO at Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), and both she and PAC chair Cherene Caraco describe their working relationship as constructive and cooperative. Those sound like constructive developments.

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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

Mad in America

In 2016, we had a working group in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate with three chief physicians from psychiatric clinics. Peter: This is a special topic. Yes, self-help played a big role in helping me to realize what I was capable of. And we set up the Runaway House, even though its not actually a therapeutic facility.

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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

Mad in America

By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.

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Investigating Human-Like Processing in Large Language Models: A Glimpse into Findings from Early-Career Researchers

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

By contrast, the study by Huth and colleagues published in Nature (2016) exposed participants to 2 hours of naturally spoken narrative speech from radio shows while brain responses were recorded via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Neural dynamics of phoneme sequences reveal position-invariant code for content and order.

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

Mad in America

A 2022 large study , lead-authored by Marc Stone at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, examined 232 drug-company trials on antidepressants submitted to the FDA between 1979 and 2016. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

It isnt just diagnostic processes that have problems the construction of diagnostic labels themselves has also been roundly criticised for lacking a scientific basis, and this has been acknowledged by many of the people actually involved in the creation of the labels. Davies, 2013, p.30) Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. Bloomsbury Press.