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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock.

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News Items – April 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Dawn Cooperstein is a member: Navigating Intimate Relationships with Complex PTSD. Where post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be the result of a single traumatic incident, complex PTSD , also known as cPTSD, is a condition that arises from surviving repeated or long-lasting traumatic events, often in childhood. Rebellious.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks of a traumatic event are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition.

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Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. is a clinical research coordinator in the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Related Disorders program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Behavior Therapy , 51 (1), 1-14. Author Bios. Enander, J.,

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News Items – March 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

According to licensed clinical social worker with Baptist Hospital, Melissa Donahue , “Buddy’s Law” would have definitely helped slow the cycle of violence and helped catch issues in homes. Brooke Bralove is a member: How to Separate or Divorce Amicably, According to a Therapist. Treatment works, punishment does not.” .

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.