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Those Crazy-Making Conflicting Messages

Gary Direnfeld

Developed in the 1950’s it was thought to create schizophrenia and other issues of mental illness. While we no longer see it as creating schizophrenia, we do accept that it is harmful to one’s well-being. That is when the tension create by these situations can come out as anxiety, depression and inappropriate behavior.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I didn't want to attract attention to myself and assumed that a hospital emergency room had bigger problems than a depressed but cooperative patient. Schizophrenia? he asked me.

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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. Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. His tone of voice.