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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. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Anxiety, panic attacks, or shakiness. Frequent thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Anxiety so strong it tightened my chest to a choking point and made me feel like cutting myself to bleed the anxious feelings out of my system. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. I’d had the same passive suicidal thoughts, ramped-up anxiety and cutting fantasies. Once he arrived, I got the standard set of questions.

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Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening

Beyond Advocacy

She was being treated by a conventional therapist who diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Her “treatment” kept her in a state of anxiety. She moved to New Mexico and began treatment with a nonconventional therapist who included taking walks and playing chess. The practice has worked well with veterans.

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10 Ways Substance Addiction Can Change Your Personality

Gateway Foundation

For example, using illicit stimulants could lead to restlessness, aggression, delusions or anxiety, and depression, while some opioid misuse could cause problems with attention, memory challenges, lack of awareness and coordination, or agitation. Additionally, addiction can worsen mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

Sometimes they talk about, say, anxiety or depression or hypomania, sometimes about relationship and work difficulties. The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. Beck A similar conception of love can be found in the writings of other therapists.