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8 Lies Depressed People Believe
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10 Subtle Signs You May Be Depressed
Here are 10 ways that depression can look. Anyone of these in isolation doesn’t have to mean that you are depressed, but it can be a signal to take a deeper look into whether you or your loved one may really be depressed. 1. Apathy and...
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6 Misconceptions People With Health Anxiety Have
Health anxiety is a term that combines two disorders from the DSM-5: somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Previous versions of the DSM called it hypochondriasis. And from this term came the pejorative label,...
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Do Violent Thoughts Mean I’m a Psychopath?
Viewer Tee wanted to know if thinking about someone being harmed means he is a psychopath. It turns out some of Tee’s thoughts were psychotic. We all have primitive, unacceptable impulses. These are fleeting thoughts that may pop into...
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Do You Grow Out of ADHD?
For a long time the model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been that it’s a neurodevelopmental disorder that starts in childhood. The expected course of ADHD has been that that about 50% of people with childhood ADHD,...
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Can You Have Bipolar Disorder + Borderline Personality? |Here’s Why It Matters
Can you have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder at the same time? I've been asked this question several times and the answer is yes. In fact, some people will refer to this as borderpolar. This isn’t an official term...
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Can Mental Illness Be Cured?
Most disorders both mental and physical are managed and not cured. In medicine we think of cure as a total reversal of an illness to the point where there's no evidence of it and it does not return. the closest we get to this scenario is...
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Bored to Sleep? It’s a Real Thing With the ADHD Brain
Does your brain check out when you get bored to the point where you go unconscious just like that? It can happen when you’re sleep deprived, or have narcolepsy, but it can also happen when you have ADHD . That’s what what this video is...
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Mental Illness and Autonomy
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks gives her views on ways of straddling the ethical divide between respecting the autonomy of mental health patients while finding ways to provide appropriate treatment for their conditions.
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Encouraging Medication
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, highlights the challenges of getting mental health patients to take their medication, and the importance of gently encouraging them to do so.
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Restraints
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks describes how the use of mechanical constraints on mental health patients varies significantly between the US and the UK, along with corresponding attitudes of medical professionals.
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How to pronounce PSY, PSO & PSEU in French
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Psychology Unlocked
Should Teenagers Work? - Steinberg et al. (1982)
This video tackles the question of whether teenagers should take paid work alongside their education. Based on Steinberg et al.'s (1982) findings, this video challenges the notion that teenagers should use their free-time for financial...
The March of Time
1951: VA WINTER HOSPITAL: MENTAL EXAM: Clinical psychologist sitting at table w/ male patient, other doctors sitting BG. Male patient trying to assemble pattern of blocks to match pattern in small book, doctor making notes.
MOT 1951: VA WINTER HOSPITAL: MENTAL EXAM: Clinical psychologist sitting at table w/ male patient, other doctors sitting BG. Male patient trying to assemble pattern of blocks to match pattern in small book, doctor making notes.
But Why
How Dreaming Works
When a person lays their head down to sleep, their brain does not stop thinking. The thoughts they have while they sleep are their dreams. Sleep allows the brain to recover from the work it does during the day. While the brain recovers,...
The March of Time
Inductee and psychiatrist
MOT 1943: UNFIT FOR DUTY: General Hershey speaking on Selective Service, 1 of 4 rejected, what measures...to make us more psychologically fit? DOOR SIGN: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Dr. Lowery speaking on discharges & effect on...
The March of Time
1951: GUIDANCE CENTER: DRAMATIZATION: 'Martha' talking w/ Psychiatrist SOT talking about housework, explaining favoritism of mother to brothers.
MOT 1951: GUIDANCE CENTER: DRAMATIZATION: 'Martha' talking w/ Psychiatrist SOT talking about housework, explaining favoritism of mother to brothers.
Neuro Transmissions
Mental Health Careers: More Than Just Pyschologists
I've had this issue recently where I have difficulty describing what I do with one label. What am I? And what do other people know? Does everyone understand the difference between a therapist and a psychologist? How about a social worker...
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Building Mental Health Services in Cambodia: Overcoming Trauma and Shortages
The video discusses how Cambodia, with the help of the University of Oslo, started a mental health system from scratch after the devastating rule of the Khmer Rouge. The program has trained psychiatrists, but there is still a shortage of...
The Recount
Can Telehealth Close the Mental Healthcare Gap?
Mental healthcare access has long been an issue in the U.S., especially in rural areas, where there’s an estimated 1 psychiatrist for every 30,000 residents. The Recount takes a look at telehealth use during the Covid-19 pandemic and...
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Inside A Risky, Rare Brain Surgery For OCD
Implanting electrodes in the brain to treat a psychiatric condition is controversial. It's not a treatment that doctors or patients consider lightly.
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Michael Moore discusses new film 'Sicko'
HEADLINE:Moore takes on health care system in 'Sicko'
CAPTION:In his past films, Michael Moore took on President Bush, the gun lobby and corporate downsizing. Now he's taking on the troubled American health care system in his new movie...
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UK: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OBJECTS TO PINOCHET'S RELEASE
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Human rights groups in Britain have lodged a formal objection to a plan to release General Augusto Pinochet - disputing a decision that he is medically unfit to stand trial.
At a press conference in London, human rights...
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The Almost-Mass Shooter: Man Reflects On Stepping Away From The Edge
Aaron Stark discusses his emotions and circumstances that drove him to buy a gun and nearly go on a rampage at 16 years old.