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“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life of Federal Service, and His Fears and Hopes for the Future

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That early childhood trauma is what I believe led to my own mental health and addiction issues. Having access to quality and affordable healthcare. He didn’t talk much about his battlefield experiences, but dealt with it through the bottle. Having safe, affordable housing: That’s probably number one.

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

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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The researchers note that these services are provided to the entire population as needed and recorded in the registry based on their universal healthcare system. Researchers have increasingly identified childhood trauma as the primary cause of psychosis , even as biological theories involving dopamine and genetics have been debunked.

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How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis

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Terms like “broken brain,” “childhood trauma,” “unresolved grief,” and “family dysfunction” come to mind. These fields question how medicine and broader healthcare can harness the arts and humanities to enhance clinical empathy, understanding, and narrative competency.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare. This period also saw an end to mandatory military conscription, reducing the number of young people exposed to the horrors of war.