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MAY 28, 2025

This approach has the potential to transform robotic therapy, helping users develop self-awareness and regulation skills, just as horses do in EAIs. By requiring emotional regulation before responding, these robots could mirror the therapeutic effect of EAIs, rather than simply providing comfort." ScienceDaily.

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Zencare

JUNE 9, 2025

People hear something they can relate to, and they self-diagnose and/or treat themselves based on the worst case. Social media campaigns have been extremely effective in raising awareness and showing people there are so many others experiencing the same struggles. 2023, August). Social media and self-diagnosis.

Genetics and mental health 94

Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Education 94

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. Taking my family away Just as I was feeling as though I were myself again, my children were removed from me in emergency custody hearings that I hadn’t even been aware of. I have maintained a 4.0

Trauma and the brain 134

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 134

ADDitude

MAY 20, 2025

Music Therapy Boosts Emotional, Social Skills Music listening may be self-directed or facilitated by a trained music therapist, as part of music therapy. The systematic review included 20 studies published between 1981 and 2023, reflecting data from 1,170 participants aged 2 to 56 years.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child offers this definition of EF skills: “Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. A good starting point is the term “executive function.”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2024

I might harness my occupational therapist’s skills to develop a self-reflection tool and make it available to independent users. Clarifications I am aware that the Social-Emotional Distress field has not been formally defined as such. My contribution to this space is yet to be explored. Time will tell.

Healthcare 138

Healthcare Self-awareness 138

Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. Although a growing number of people are aware of problems with psychiatric treatment, what remains taboo is challenging fundamental assumptions that equate mental health concerns with biomedical disorders.

Trauma and the brain 120

Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 120

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

On the 3rd of October 2023 when he went to hospital for the last time I had a meeting with my soon-to-be PhD supervisor, online. That is the subjectivation I am keenly aware of and now capable of extricating myself and others out of. When will they self-reflect on the nature of their care? Who needs such violent care?

Sleep and mental health 108

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2024

His body of work, including the critically acclaimed Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (Routledge, 2023), offers a profound reimagining of psychology, interweaving it with the arts and humanities to better understand the human condition. Reimagining the Story of Dementia (Brill | Sense).

Self-awareness 117

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Then in 2023, Ed Pigott and his co-researchers, utilizing the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative, conducted a reanalysis of STAR*D, which was published in BMJ. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?”

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Zencare

MAY 19, 2025

It often overlaps with spirituality, self-help, and lifestyle content, all served up in aesthetic packages by influencers. Affirmations shift self-talk : Saying things like Im capable or Im growing can help quiet the inner critic. Then we bring awareness into action. That's why I call them validations rather than affirmations.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

My journey with this condition led me down a path where I ended up engaging with community efforts to investigate it, to try to spread awareness, and to elucidate aspects that I believe urgently need research so patients can access the correct diagnosis and potential access to treatments. I ended up housebound for the next four years.

Sleep and mental health 131

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 131

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

Trauma and the brain 143

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

My anecdotal explanation is that psychologists and psychiatrists are more concerned with self-preservation and their own ego, despite the latter actually being medical doctors. The answer lies in the fundamental nature of any tribe, band or clan; self-sufficiency. What is the purpose of awareness?

Aging and mental health 131

Aging and mental health Self-awareness Agriculture Education 131

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As if to prove my point, a CNN article published one year later on October 31, 2023 reported the following: “People with severe psychological distress were more likely than others to have heard of 988 and to have used the lifeline, according to research published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. I decided to focus on self-injury this time.

Sleep and mental health 137

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 137

Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

O n 3 August 2023, I wrote to the editors of two medical journals and called for retraction of three fraudulent reports of placebo-controlled trials of depression drugs in children and adolescents. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023;Nov 14.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

As of 2023, such laws were on the books in 47 states and the District of Columbia—leaving just Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland as holdouts. In September 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court, which bears similarities to AOT, became law.

Poverty and mental health 135

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Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

However, when Pigott and colleagues published their patient-level analysis of the STAR*D outcomes in July 2023, it seemed that surely this was now a story that the media could no longer ignore. Readers could see for themselves how the STAR*D investigators had violated their own protocol. Yet, no mainstream media reported on this scandal.

Self-awareness 145

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In October 2023 I wrote an article for Mad in America, “Survivors and Families Working Together for Change.” Whether the anger is turned inward on the self or outward toward others, dreadful destruction results.” Now I am aware that meaning is manifested in the way I live my life rather than in the ruminating.

Hospitality 124

Hospitality Self-awareness Construction Education 124

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

It’s not surprising for a company that reportedly spent over $100 million on advertising in 2023, making it the country’s projected leading sponsor of podcasts. Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help.

Aging and mental health 144

Aging and mental health Insurance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 144

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

Sleep and mental health 143

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 143

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Healer Gordon Warme, MD, died in June 2023, at 90 years old. I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. He bucked convention and was a counter-balance to mainstream psychiatry’s mantra: “be normal and compliant.” Dr. Gordon Warme, from Bay St.

Self-awareness 107

Self-awareness Technology Hospitality Education 107

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A lucid dream is any dream where you’re actively aware of the fact that you’re dreaming as the dream is happening. If you do that as you’re falling asleep, it’s a self-hypnosis technique to help you remember your dreams. Morley: My job is to teach people how to have lucid dreams. Tonight, I remember my dreams.

Trauma and the brain 97

Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Mindfulness practices 97

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

T his month the American Psychological Association (APA) released its report, “Stress in America 2023: A Nation Recovering From Collective Trauma.” For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020.

Resilience and coping 135

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 135

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023.

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Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood 143

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Ninety-one years later in 2023, over 50,000 Americans died of suicide; more than any year on record. Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. I want poetry. I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”

Trauma and the brain 120

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 120

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm. Third: It feeds into the epidemic of self-diagnosis raging across the internet, particularly among teenage girls, and particularly on TikTok with its “sick-role subculture.” For the brain.

Aging and mental health 138

Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 138

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

Healthcare 92

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 92

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. In 2023, Dryer resigned her medical license. Yet despite this acknowledgment, there is no mention of Ingrascis abusesor any risk of sexual abuse in MDMA-ATin Passie’s 2023 book, The History of MDMA.

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Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 123

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The police cannot and will not be a part of how people will come to stay at the respite—guests will need to call us themselves and make a decision based in self-determination to stay. Eligibility will be based on if someone is in crisis, not on sobriety, medication compliance, or if they are refraining from self-harming.

Sleep and mental health 111

Sleep and mental health Hospitality Legal Nonprofits 111

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

SENATOR SMITH: In an interview in 2023 and 2024, you blamed school shootings on antidepressants. It is high time that more politicians, journalists, health officials, physicians, psychiatrists, and patients were made aware of this potentially lifesaving information. The first example occurred on January 30, 2025, at RFK Jr.s

Self-awareness 145

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2). In the main areas I have discussed the violence has increased to the point that the Department of Justice is aware of it and successfully prosecutes cases (3,4,5). 2023 Jan 25;11:16226-49.

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