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How Getting Hit by Lightning Changed a Woman’s Synesthesia

By Sarah Zhang — 2017

Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real.”

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Situational Symptoms or Serious Depression: What’s the Difference?

What is the difference between symptoms that may arise in response to situational stress compared to signs of serious depression? How do you know if what you feel is normal and will pass, or needs further attention?

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Laura Strom, LMFT
2017
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Trauma-Related Guilt in People with PTSD

People who develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also commonly experience guilt. In particular, individuals who have endured traumatic events may also begin to feel what’s known as trauma-related guilt. But what does the term mean exactly?

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Matthew Tull
2020
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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll

Studies of polar researchers, astronauts, and others in isolation shed light on possible effects of social distancing, including increased forgetfulness, depression and heart attacks.

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Betsy Morris
2020
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Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Treat PTSD Caused by Racism, Discrimination: Researchers

Williams is the co-lead author of a recent retrospective study that found those who tried doses of psilocybin (more commonly known as magic mushrooms), LSD, or MDMA (the pure substance found in Ecstasy or Molly) reported a decrease in trauma symptoms, depression and anxiety after 30 days.

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Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St. Philip, Solarina Ho
2021
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Depression as a Loss of Heart

Depression is one of the most common problems in modern society. It appears in chronic low-grade forms that can drain a person’s energy and in more acute forms that can be completely debilitating.

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John Welwood
1988
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Ruby Wax: “It Was Out of the Darkness that Light Came In”

The writer and comedian on being a problem child, how depression led her to become a champion of mental health, and what she learned from Donald Trump

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Anita Sethi
2019
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Ruby Wax: On the Power of Laughter, Mindfulness, and the Scourge of Stress

Whatever your opinion of writer and performer Ruby Wax, watching her 2005 interview with Donald Trump is likely to evoke empathy from the harshest of critics.

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Mary Appleton
2018
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Eating Disorders Thrive in Anxious Times, and Pose a Lethal Threat

Eating disorders are thriving during the pandemic. Hotline calls to the National Eating Disorders Association are up 70-80% in recent months. For many, eating is a form of control — a coping mechanism tied to stress.

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Yuki Noguchi
2020
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Drugs Alone Won’t Fix Our Epidemic of Depression

To fight a rising tide of depression and suicide, psychiatrists need to do more than just fill patients up with pills.

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James S. Gordon
2018
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Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treat Depression?

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is a common type of talk therapy that for some people can work as well or better than medication to treat depression.

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Camille Noe Pagán
2021
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