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Eldest Daughter Syndrome: How Being the Oldest Affects Mental Health

Zencare

These daughters become the go-to fixers, caregivers, and peacemakers from a young age. Let’s break down what it means to live with eldest daughter syndrome, how birth order plays a role in mental health, and, most importantly, how to begin healing. Awareness is the first step toward shifting them. Gender matters.

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

As the newest cohort in psychiatric training, they are digital natives, accustomed to rapid information retrieval, online simulations, and mental health apps. 9 Another major technological shift in medicine has been the integration of electronic health records (EHRs). A similar divide exists in the field of mental health.

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

Mad in America

My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

Mad in America

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Psychosocially focused interventions may foster better engagement.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Mad in America

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. After a year, I tapered off but I was still the same.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.