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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. Psychiatric institutions are increasing rapidly across the country.

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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. For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. These examples arent quirky accidents.

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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

Mad in America

W hen I first saw Laura Delano’s story was being published by Penguin, a major publisher, I knew that we were on the brink of change by way of the public narrative around mental health in the west. Laura and I were born right around the same time. She and I were also diagnosed with bipolar, right around the same time in the ‘90s.

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PTSD Is Treatable, But There's No Holy Grail: Insights From Arash Javanbakht, MD

Psychiatric Times

If a patient has trauma related to spiders, exposure therapy might help them face their fear. This principle can be applied to a plethora of other traumas. but in what areas can we improve treatment outcomes and real-world functioning for patients with PTSD? but most psychiatrist do not have a bucket of spiders on hand.

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Successfully Prescribing MAOIs for Depression

Psychiatric Times

Physicians (CME) 2. Other All other clinicians either will receive a CME Attendance Certificate or may choose any of the types of CE credit being offered. ACTIVITY GOAL To inform readers of best practices in prescribing monoamine oxidase inhibitors for the treatment of major depressive disorder. LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1.

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PTSD In Review: Treatment Insights

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE Stay informed on PTSD treatment insights, including complex PTSD recognition, diagnostic nuances, and the link between migraines and trauma. We gathered our most recent insights on treating this disorder so you can stay up to date on PTSD.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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