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How to Choose a Therapist: Tips and Fits

Stop Abuse Campaign

In this article, we’ll discuss how to choose the right therapist for you. Bipolar disorder. Trauma or abuse history or PTSD. Eating disorders. Personality disorders. Behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Substance abuse disorders.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. Maybe there isn’t enough available medication to subside these symptoms people are enduring and they end up turning to other substances.

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Why I Meditate (And You Should Too)

Stop Abuse Campaign

In this sense, meditation is an important technique that can contribute to better parenting and breaking the cycle of abuse, which prevents ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and benefits both parents and children. PTSD Meditation. A part of PTSD is feeling a loss of control. Can Meditation Help Mental Illness?

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It’s Time for a Change in How We Design, Develop, Test and Disseminate Empirically Supported Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

One is the sheer volume of people in need of some type of mental health or substance abuse care. The problem is that our current annual rate of onset of DSM-5 Axis I disorders is estimated to be around 27%; approximately 1 in 4 Americans develop a mental disorder or addiction in any one calendar 12 month period.