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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

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This parallels Micha Frazer-Carrolls argument that mainstream mental health awareness campaigns tend to normalize mental illness for the so-called worried well, while deliberately excluding those deemed mad or seriously mentally ill. As a result, this promotes the funneling of the mad toward psychiatry and institutional care.

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Self-Awareness: A Key to Emotional and Relationship Health

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When new therapy clients sit down in front of me for the first time, my curiosity is always piqued around not only who they are and what kind of help they are seeking, but also their level of psychological awareness. Even if this type of awareness is clearly lacking, this doesn’t mean good work cannot be accomplished together.

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Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens 

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Somatic therapies like somatic experiencing and sensorimotor psychotherapy utilize this understanding by promoting embodied awareness and movement-based interventions to restore autonomic flexibility. In this model, trauma-induced inertia is viewed as a functional state of metabolic conservation rather than dysfunction.

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Mapping Identity Through Moonlight: A Narrative Therapy Reflection

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Not the ego as arrogance, but the ego as boundary, as survival strategy, as the constructed concept of self. I was no longer sure where the mask ended and the self began, but I knew I didnt want to return to the old performance. A still from a Ruger video became a symbol of self-respect and a reminder about the future of my children.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. Efforts at Self-Regulation Being placed in psychiatric hospitals at a rate of almost once per year was greatly disturbing, and it provided me with motivation to get my situation under control.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

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The Science : During REM sleep, your brain replays the day’s events, cross-references memories, and simulates solutions to unresolved problems. Reclaiming their significance requires challenging these social norms to recognize dreams as vital tools for self-awareness, problem-solving, and personal growth.

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Modern Psychology and Its Colonial Legacy

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It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.