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Advancing PTSD Treatment: What's Taken So Long?

Psychiatric Times

Author(s): Rebecca Barbee, PA-C, CAQ-Psych Rebecca Barbee, PA-C, CAQ-Psych, shares insights ahead of the the FDA meeting discussing brexpiprazole for PTSD. Author(s): Rebecca Barbee, PA-C, CAQ-Psych Rebecca Barbee, PA-C, CAQ-Psych, shares insights ahead of the the FDA meeting discussing brexpiprazole for PTSD.

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Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’

Lightwork

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.

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

Mad in America

From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. These areas of the brain impact how a person reacts to the world. Theyre more likely to develop heart and lung diseases, cancers, and other health issues.

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Psychiatric Butchery: What I’ve Seen at a Homeless Shelter for Women with Children

Mad in America

I will always wonder whether I got worse because of me or because of damage to my brain? I asked another employee what was wrong and the response was shes mentally ill. It was always assumed to be the childs supposed mental illness. T his is all written to the best of my memory. I worked, I had a life. We have psychiatrists!

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Improving Outcomes for Psychosis: Psychiatric Survivor and Critical Psychiatry Perspectives

Mad in America

I’ve spent my life creating compassionate alternatives to the traditional mental health system because my hospitalization was really bad. This is a story of many, many patients, and the perspective of an international movement of patients, families, clinicians, researchers, legal advocates, and disability rights activists.

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

Mad in America

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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Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

Mad in America

But to her and everyone who saw me I remained seemingly coherent, intelligent and threatening with legal action if they tried injecting anything. In one final location after which we returned home a young senior resident engaged me in a conversation and we talked mental health. She took me to three in the city, big ones.