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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. People dreamed of tidal waves, crumbling cities, and faceless threats.

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Not Just a Dream: Finding the Mental Health Community I’d Been Longing For

Mad in America

S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. Prompted by a last-minute invitation, I recently traveled to the 13 th Compassionate Mental Health retreat in Coed Hills, Wales. Cabins at the Coed Hills retreat.