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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

As a Doctor of Korean Medicine who helps patients taper off long-term psychotropic medication, I see the cracks in the system every daypatients who were placed on antidepressants, sleeping pills, or antipsychotics decades ago and never given a clear path to recovery. Ive also been one of them. Psychotherapy is rarely suggested.

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Study reveals that sleep prevents unwanted memories from intruding

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

The link between poor sleep and mental health problems could be related to deficits in brain regions that keep unwanted thoughts out of mind.

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Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental Health

Mad in America

In a previous story , I reported on the “TikTokification” of mental health —a phenomenon where social media content encourages young people to self-diagnose. Many students find comfort in the medical model of mental health because it simplifies experiences that are otherwise messy, uncomfortable, and difficult to make sense of. “I

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Would ketamine treatment help if you didn't know you got it?

NPR - Mental Health

This episode: a researcher navigating this challenge by putting his patients to sleep. For part two of our series on psychedelics, we look at how some researchers are trying to disentangle the "trip" from the drugs' effects on the brain and why the answer could help direct the future of psychedelic research.

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Fighting Forced Treatment in Court: A Victory is to Be Celebrated

Mad in America

Many doctors gradually realize how our health care system does not bring people to health but keeps many in a cycle of chronic disease. In the state of Wisconsin where I live it is very difficult to get off a mental health commitment. He had nothing to do during the day and ended up sleeping a lot. Across the St.

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

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? Amental health crisissteeped in cultural amnesia. These examples arent quirky accidents.

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Can sleep and activity changes really predict mania in bipolar disorder?

The Mental Elf

Alyson Dodd reports on a year long study of digital mood monitoring in people with bipolar disorder, which suggests that sleep and activity changes precede hypomanic episodes by three days. The post Can sleep and activity changes really predict mania in bipolar disorder? appeared first on National Elf Service.