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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Here are some things you can do besides talking to your doctor or therapist: Manage your stress: Determine which responsibilities you’re comfortable taking on now and which can wait until you feel better.

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10 Ways Substance Addiction Can Change Your Personality

Gateway Foundation

For instance, people with addiction may be prone to: Borrowing or stealing money frequently from others Stealing and selling items to sustain their addiction Engaging in risky behaviors like sharing needles, driving under the influence, or having unprotected sex Many substances can affect judgment in different ways.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Most people in the room were engaged with others, with the exception of one older woman who stood apart, her back against the wall with her arms crossed over her chest. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? A few people were watching television or talking.

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Social prescribing is a lovely idea but it won’t make up for the care I’m not getting

SECTIONED

Access to the specialist day centre for people with severe and enduring mental illness (such as schizophrenia and bipolar) I’d been attending since being sectioned had been withdrawn as a result of council funding cuts. One issue is that it overlooks what’s already there, including occupational therapists and social workers.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

But all going well, I suggest, what they’ll be met with in therapy is the opportunity to engage in a form of interaction which leaves them with a greater trust in their lovability, a greater clarity regarding what it is to love and be loved, and a greater capacity for loving. What did he mean?