Dr. Deb

MAY 15, 2025

Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels: author life , award-winning books , books , crime novel , psychological suspense Older Post Home About Me Dr. Deb Blogposts are for educational purposes only. They should NOT be used as a substitute for psychotherapy or treatment advice. 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1)

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Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

I went on to write a second book educating the church about stigma. So by 2019, I was acutely aware of the importance of putting right my views which were already out in the public arena. But within a year of publication, I was back in hospital, relapsed apparently. Unshackled Mind continues where the first memoir left off.

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Sanity Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

I recently wrote a blog post about the struggles single mothers face, and I got some heartfelt responses through emails and comments. Global Resources: – Single Mother’s Grants (USA): A website compiling available grants in education, housing, and financial aid. What is available?

Legal 52

Legal Self-awareness Education 52

Love & Life Toolbox

JUNE 18, 2025

Amy Eden, the auther of “The Kind Self Healing Book”, offers her unique insights into navigating the waters of being in love with an adult child of an alcoholic, or “ACoAs.” ACA or Al-Anon), and education can significantly improve emotional connection. Tools like therapy, support groups (e.g.,

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. Many were not aware of these risks prior to starting them. Millions of others share this experience.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Consensus reality would have us believe that increased compulsory schooling equals increased education, however, a critical thinker questions this certainty. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.

Genetics and mental health 145

Genetics and mental health Education Self-awareness Construction 145

Mad in America

APRIL 2, 2024

However, despite its vast potential, semiotics has yet to be widely incorporated into social work practice and education. This blog post seeks to illuminate semiotics’ untapped power in social work and advocate for its integration as a novel approach to fostering more nuanced, empathetic, and compelling client relationships.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Financial disadvantage, unemployment, low income, low education or low material standard of living directly impacts mental health. It is important to educate people on how to process the pain in a constructive manner, how to give oneself more options or how to find more options in scarce circumstances.

Construction 144

Construction Childhood trauma Self-awareness Education 144

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

However, careless, discouraging drive-by comments on a social media platform may have unintended consequences, even if meant to be educational. Telling people theyre destined for the worst possible outcome can create a self-fulfilling “nocebo” effect, reinforcing the very dependence they seek to escape.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contemporary education readily acknowledges this fact. Why, she can send an email home to John boy’s parents—make them aware of his deficits. And Miss Brown will not be made aware of this until the day of. Mr. Blue is highly educated. His undergrad is in Biology, he has a master’s in education and was trained as a lawyer.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I was also his case manager—which meant that because Liam was designated with special education needs, I kept track of all his academic progress, helped his teachers work effectively with him to meet the goals in his Individualized Education Program (IEP), and checked in with him on a regular basis.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. The eleven study participants come from diverse backgrounds interms ofgender, age, ethnicity, education, religion, and relationships.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.

Aging and mental health 135

Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 135

ADDitude

MARCH 27, 2025

My tendency to self-isolate. Take This Self-Test: Autism in Girls ] But thats just the tip of the iceberg. Youll Develop a New Interest: AuDHD Awareness and Advocacy One of the pleasant surprises of my post-diagnosis existence was the opportunity to hyperfixate on a good cause. The executive dysfunction that plagued me.

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Lawyers with Depression

MARCH 22, 2025

This is a guest blog from attorney, Amarbir Singh Shergill , a Private Legal Practitioner in the Honble Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, India since 2019. This realization itself triggers a spiral of doubt, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, and mental health challenges. He earned his B.A.LLB (Hons.) Fame attracts fame.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2025, as mental health awareness continues to grow, counseling is playing a more prominent role in education. This blog explores the top 10 benefits of counseling for students, highlighting how it enhances mental well-being, academic success, and overall personal growth. Why is counseling important?

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Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Breathing techniques 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me. Unlike after my first admission I internalised my new self-image as a bipolar psychiatric patient and it ended up literally disabling me.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. I don’t change the way you think. I am not seeking a cure for cognitive or emotional disorders.

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Sleep and mental health Healthcare Construction Self-awareness 135

ADDitude

JUNE 5, 2025

What often gets forgotten or overlooked, though, is building awareness of their strengths. Awareness of gaps is important, but it shouldnt be the whole picture. To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing. Point out their strengths every chance you get.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Four of the eight are BMJ blogs reporting on the “most read” BMJ articles, and not per se about the scandal.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 145

Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 145

The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I haven’t been able to write for my blog for months as I created this coloring book. Each of the first 13 illustrations in this adult coloring book is accompanied by a mindfulness activity or somatic therapy exercise that teaches you how to ground into your body and self-regulate your own nervous system. Mindful Walking 3.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

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. Awareness of this potential should, at least, have a role to play in guiding how services approach ‘sustaining remission’, and the advice they offer.

Early intervention 125

Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 125

Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

ADDitude

MAY 9, 2025

The more your child understands about their brain wiring and systems for internal and external information, the greater their self-awareness, confidence, and self-advocacy skills. To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing. which was broadcast on January 23, 2024.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Theo Resslers journey to sobriety spans decades of courage, support, and deep self-reflection. Daily group sessions, close relationships with therapists, and a connection to the broader 12-step community helped Theo create a life centered on wellness and self-awareness. Theo, happy and healthy. Courtesy of Theo Ressler.

Sleep and mental health 52

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The implications for therapeutic intervention were discussed in the previous blog.

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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?

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Agriculture Education 131

Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other. For the same reason, it remains painfully fragmented and siloed.

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Trauma and the brain Legal Self-awareness Technology 129

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature.

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Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Education Construction 144

Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I Authored by psychiatrist Marshall Garrick, this article provides a window to the cultural values of psychiatry, and how self-serving rationalizations are considered artful diplomacy.

Genetics and mental health 141

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I I kept pushing, and frankly, trying to educate a bit, too. Right now self injuring is helping.” Jen: “What are you doing to self-harm right now?” You don’t send people for that do you?

Sleep and mental health 137

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

ADDitude

APRIL 30, 2025

Read: Diaries of Adulting (or Not) with ADHD ] I Dont Feel Like an Adult: The Fallout from Falling Short Like lots of people acutely aware of their flaws, Ive learned to jump in and laugh at myself before others can take a shot. Failure to plan, persist, and apply what I learn from experience has thwarted my ambition and harmed my self-trust.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2025

Broader, community through education. Understanding that mental health struggles are often rooted in systemic and environmental factors allows us to offer more compassionate, context-aware support. We can educate and explain, offering perspectives that promote understanding. Reach out as best you can to the persons natural self.

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Trauma and the brain Family dynamics Childhood trauma Education 122

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

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Aging and mental health Insurance Pharmaceuticals Mental health policy 140

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Whether the anger is turned inward on the self or outward toward others, dreadful destruction results.” The groups are designed to provide education and support—not therapy. Now I am aware that meaning is manifested in the way I live my life rather than in the ruminating. philosophizing and searching to conquer life’s mysteries.

Hospitality 124

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, he wrote a Mad in America blog, “What if the Folly Is in Us, Too?” I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. One is with educational non-profit Moving Images in Vancouver, their market is universities, colleges, and libraries. Those endeavours became Bay St.

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