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Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?

Mad in America

Key features of the Trieste model include: No Closed Psychiatric Hospitals: Traditional psychiatric hospitals were dismantled, replaced with open-door community mental health centres (CMHCs) operating 24/7. Importantly, the role of nutrition in mental healthan often overlooked aspectis integral to this holistic approach.

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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

Mad in America

Over the next two decades, I cycled through seven psychiatric hospitalizations. Not once did any psychiatrist test my hormones, assess my gut health, take labs and evaluate my bloodwork, or talk to me about how nutrition, sleep, social situations, or blood sugar could be influencing my mood and state of mind.

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A Felt Sense of Safety – From Disassociation to Embodiment

Mad in America

My lovely psychiatrist, Dr. Volls, advised me on the concept of “mood management.” A nutrition geek and nature fanatic who loved learning about the healing power of food, I could not wrap my mind around how I needed prescriptions to balance my brain. Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes.

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Parenting Tips: 7 Ways to Help Teens Succeed in High School

Clear Behavioral Health

Teach Proper Nutrition In a fast-paced world, we have become accustomed to fast food. This means understanding and educating your teen on what a balanced diet is, showing your teens quick and easy snacks that ensure they get proper nutrition, and trying to keep fresh food in the house [4].

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Is Ondansetron Safe for Women With Mental Health Conditions?

Lightwork

The medication’s interaction with serotonina neurotransmitter crucial for mood regulationcreates unique challenges when combined with common mental health medications. Cancer Treatment Support Prevents chemotherapy-induced nausea Helps patients maintain nutrition during treatment Enables completion of necessary therapy cycles 2.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

Mad in America

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

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“You Are Way Too Hard On Yourself…”

ADDitude

Read: Let’s Talk About Perimenopause and ADHD ] If your ADHD profile is defined by inattention and emotional dysregulation, higher estrogen levels around ovulation may come as a very welcome energy and mood boost. 3 We need more research, but the theoretical model is there for cyclic dosing. Maggie Sibley, Ph.D.,