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Prioritizing Mental Health on International Self-Care Day: How Teen Therapy and IOP Can Help 

Clear Behavioral Health

June marks the beginning of Self-Care Month, which ends with Self-Care Day on July 24. This awareness month highlights the importance of self-care and emphasizes that it’s something we can all practice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Research has also shown that self belief plays a crucial role in emotional well-being.

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Brain Disorders or Problems with Living? How Research on “Mental Illness” Went Awry

Mad in America

Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. Other somatic interventions for mental illness, such as lobotomy and insulin coma, were as discredited as bloodletting. A bad metaphor. An excuse.

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

Mad in America

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.