Category: Mental Health
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A lot of bad therapists are protected by the profession
The mental health field has weak quality controls, slow disciplinary processes, and limited public accountability. Here’s why finding a good therapist is harder than it should be.
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Skateboarding and Mental Health: Why the Slam-and-Get-Back-Up Mentality Translates to Life
Skateboarding’s culture of falling, getting up, and trying again builds real resilience. Research and lived experience point to genuine mental health benefits.
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Removing the bereavement exclusion from the DSM was a mistake
When DSM-5 dropped the bereavement exclusion, normal grief became a billable disorder. Here’s why clinicians and ethicists are still arguing about it.
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Why Mental Health Diagnoses Can Be Too Broad
DSM categories sweep together patients with very different underlying conditions. Here’s why broad mental health diagnoses can blur clinical decision-making.
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Court-ordered reunification therapy is junk science
Court-ordered reunification therapy promises to repair fractured parent-child bonds, but the evidence base is thin and the practice has alarming critics.
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Escalation happens faster than you expect
Conflicts go from manageable to dangerous in compressed timeframes that intuition consistently underestimates. Recognizing the curve early is the only real defense.
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You might freeze instead of act
The fight-or-flight framing leaves out the third response that’s actually most common in danger: freezing. Knowing why matters more than blaming yourself.
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Long-term therapy can quietly create dependency
Therapy helps many people. Long-term, open-ended therapy without clear goals can also quietly produce dependency that gets harder to leave the longer it lasts.