Lightwork

JUNE 19, 2025

Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’ Have you ever been told that you’re “too sensitive”? The combination of trauma and sensitivity presents unique challenges.

Trauma and the brain 52

Trauma and the brain Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

Author’s note: For transparency, I am the co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics, a state-approved training center for psilocybin mushroom practitioners in Colorado. Taking all of this into consideration, the question for me has become: Do psychedelics represent something meaningfully different here?

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Psychedelic therapy Trauma and the brain Community support Healthcare 73

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was grappling with the pressures of balancing the needs of my teenagers, who were struggling in different ways, and my two preschoolers with developmental delays that no professional could explain — all while attempting to manage and overcome my own trauma from military service. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 133

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

But to her and everyone who saw me I remained seemingly coherent, intelligent and threatening with legal action if they tried injecting anything. E very time I put pen to paper about my story I shiver for I do not know what my pen will blacken the paper with. She took me to three in the city, big ones. I was calm and loud. Why would I?

Sleep and mental health 106

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 106

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Zencare

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Robbins got her start as a lawyer for Legal Aid Society, but shifted to be an inspirational leader through her first ted talk How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over. The Let Them theory is generally popular among therapists as a simple phrase to describe the complexity of setting boundaries and prioritizing the self. Lets break it down.

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Eating disorders Self-awareness Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trauma and the brain 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The real question is whether the “brighter future” is always so distant. When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health. Yet these things are not acts of God.

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Trauma and the brain Legal Self-awareness Technology 131