Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. This shut down can result in complete immobilization or a fear of such immobilization, both of which are psychologically painful, and this can result in the pain of self-loathing and shame.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Emotional regulation is not about suppressing feelings; its about understanding them, responding thoughtfully, and using them constructively. In this article, I will outline simple yet powerful strategies to help you manage intense emotions, improve self-awareness, and develop healthier coping mechanisms.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this interview, we’ll explore his personal journey toward the psychological humanities, delve into his work in narrative psychology , and discuss his approach to the concepts of ‘self’ and the ‘Other.’ I’ve sometimes called them narrative self-analyses. It’s challenging work to do.

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My Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Mindfulness is a state of being conscious and aware of your thoughts, actions, feelings, surroundings, and sensations, free from judgment or distraction. Mindfulness therapy is a form of counseling that uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and mindfulness mediative practices to enhance a person’s self-awareness.

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Zencare

JANUARY 17, 2025

Through the written word, individuals engage in a process that fosters greater awareness, helps resolve unfinished business, and provides a healthy way to process difficult emotions. This practice has many applications, including self-care, personal growth, and improving relationships.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. The post Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being appeared first on Mad In America.

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Zencare

MARCH 1, 2025

Thats where emotional awareness comes in. You Become More Emotionally Aware Ever feel something but struggle to put it into words? This could even help you have necessary conversations better because youll be coming from a place of empathy, awareness and understanding. You Become More Self-Aware (and Thats a Superpower!)

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The Anxiety Guy

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s time to break free from the shackles of anxiety and embrace a life filled with optimism and self-empowerment. Negative thinking can manifest in various ways, such as catastrophizing, overgeneralization, and self-criticism. This requires self-awareness and mindfulness of our thinking patterns. Let’s begin.

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Love & Life Toolbox

OCTOBER 26, 2024

technology raising questions about the legitimacy of the content being circulated requires people to understand and have some level of self-awareness. Focus on self-care, engage in activities you enjoy, and take action by voting for your preferred candidate. Information overload with a strong negativity bias and new A.I.

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Child Mind Intitute

JANUARY 28, 2025

Other research shows the benefits of journaling include: Improved emotional and physical health: Regular journaling enhances mood and emotional awareness and reduces stress levels (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005). Effects of constructive worry, imagery distraction, and gratitude interventions on sleep quality: A pilot trial. Digdon, N.

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Clear Behavioral Health

MARCH 19, 2025

Related: Self Diagnosis vs. Dual Diagnosis Treatment Find out how addiction treatment rehab in the Los Angeles, California area can help you recover. Normally a group facilitator or therapist will run the group so it’s constructive and order can be kept during the process. Call us today to get started.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

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. I ended up housebound for the next four years.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Did you find that the patients in any way fit neatly into these different diagnostic constructs? Moncrieff: I was aware when I was still a fairly junior trainee psychiatrist that there were other people who were similarly critical of the mainstream medical model. Self-identity changed and their use of these medications changed.

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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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Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

Or, in mainstream psychiatry in North America today, its the opposite claim: that it’s all really about the brain, and consciousness and awareness are just epiphenomena. Some theories justify the idea that the real action is in psychology, and everything else is not important. Human suffering has many different dimensions.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. The anti-hero of the novel holds a preference for the perfect conception of himself.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Whether the anger is turned inward on the self or outward toward others, dreadful destruction results.” We hope to learn together from this pilot project and use what we have learned to keep constructing more multifamily groups to counter the confusion, blame, shame and loneliness that interferes with the healing power of hope.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

You might lose months of memory and some loss of self-esteem. with) a specially constructed instrument, a thin, sharp knife like a blade about four inches long. Simply becoming aware of the concept is a start. You would likely expect to die. You may have actually observed a friend die. You might even become catatonic.

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The Anxiety Guy

JULY 22, 2024

This transition from self-direction to spiritual guidance permits intuition to take the initiative. We grow more aware of the lessons and opportunities that each moment brings, especially those that appear difficult. The ego mind’s continual state of awareness and tension may be overcome via spiritual practice.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I said, “On paper everything’s great, but I’m struggling with this existential feeling of being 38, single, childless, increasingly aware of mortality.” I’m aware it could be interpreted as invalidating mental health issues, but that’s not my intention. This creates an opportunity to work through them constructively.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

Awareness of structural and social threats to success can lead students from underrepresented identities to question whether they will fully belong at a given institution, which jeopardizes their psychological well-being and academic performance. In a series of simulations, we evaluated the performance of latent-variable (i.e.,

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Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If we construct elaborate systems of defenses to buffer us from reality, this is only testimony to the raw, tender quality of the open mind and heart underlying them. Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. They have no awareness of the dormant forces within them awaiting recognition and activation, because the emphasis is to look outside of oneself for comfort and relief. I believe that because we each have our own resilient Spirit, we are creators.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses. Theory of mind, 2.)

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. At the core of everything is the inescapable awareness that we are going to die, and that it could happen at any moment. They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection.

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Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you? One of the books we read together was Charles Taylors Sources of the Self , which is a landmark in hermeneutic thought. Over time, what it means to be a self has shifted dramatically. Can you quantify justice?

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