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

Mad in America

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

Love & Life Toolbox

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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The Roots of Emotional Illness: Emotional Conditioning

Mad in America

This knowledge came unconsciously without awareness. Often, this is teaching to be well-behaved, kind, trustworthy or self-reliant. Children fulfill these roles without awareness throughout their lives as they become adults. The source of their knowledge is what they learned in their own childhoods from their parents.

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Rethinking Relationships: Embracing Individuality

The Online Therapist

By fostering self-awareness, open communication, and mutual respect, we create relationships that thrive not on dependence, but on appreciation. True connection doesnt come from losing ourselves in another person but from standing confidently beside them, growing independently while sharing our journey.

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Mapping Identity Through Moonlight: A Narrative Therapy Reflection

Mad in America

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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Evening Rituals to Beat Burnout – A 15-Minute Self-Care Routine if You Feel Exhausted

Sanity Daily

Whether you’re juggling motherhood, work stress, or just the mental load of everyday life, a simple 15-minute evening ritual self-care routine can help you reclaim your energy and reconnect with your body. This isn’t about bubble baths and scented candles (though we love those too). It’s about intentional and mindful rest.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

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.