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Marlanda Graham
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It is not easy to live with mental illness. It is a persistent problem with no clear solution. Treatments like medication and psychotherapy can be incredibly helpful, but sometimes, people with mental illness need to go through the entire day to feel comfortable. The most commonly accepted self-help tips are to exercise, to meditate, and attend more. But other proven methods are not often mentioned. Many of them can easily incorporate daily routines.
Populations affected by armed conflict are frequently exposed to traumatic events and daily stressors and are at a greater risk of elevated levels of mental health disorders. A substantial body of research has examined risk factors for poor mental health among conflict-affected civilian populations, but fewer studies have examined protective factors. As a result, research on protective factors, including coping, has been identified as a priority research area for mental health and psychosocial support among conflict-affected populations.
Coping can be described as "an attempt to master, tolerate, or reduce internal or external stressors that an individual perceives as exceeding existing resources". Most current coping measures build upon the problem- and emotion-focused domains are suggested.
If a situation is appraised as intractable or impossible to change, a person will employ emotion-focused modes of coping. Problem-focused modes are used when a person appraises a troubling situation as surmountable through action. Problem-focused coping entails an "attempt to solve, re-conceptualize, or minimize the effects of a stressful situation", while emotion-focused coping includes "self-preoccupation, fantasy, or other conscious activities related to affect regulation".
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Saving Normal
- An Insider’s Revolt Against out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
- De: Allen Frances MD
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
In Saving Normal, Allen Frances, one of the world's most influential psychiatrists, warns that mislabeling everyday problems as mental illness has shocking implications for individuals and society: Stigmatizing a healthy person as mentally ill leads to unnecessary, harmful medications, the narrowing of horizons, misallocation of medical resources, and draining of the budgets of families and the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Right on the money
- De Mentecuerpo en 03-29-19
De: Allen Frances MD
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One Nation Under Therapy
- How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance
- De: Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. Recent decades, however, have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdeveloped, requiring the ministrations of mental-health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. Today, having a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every problem degrades one's native ability to cope with life's challenges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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If you want another perspective
- De Kurt en 03-07-09
De: Christina Hoff Sommers, y otros
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Desperate Remedies
- Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
- De: Andrew Scull
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 50
For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind—the sorts of things that were once called "madness"—have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great History but I Have One Big Reservation
- De Jeffrey Scot Minch en 08-02-22
De: Andrew Scull
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Unbroken Brain
- A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
- De: Maia Szalavitz
- Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 761
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 684
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 683
Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality", Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- De Jennifer Sader en 08-28-16
De: Maia Szalavitz
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Crazy Like Us
- The Globalization of the American Psyche
- De: Ethan Watters
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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He is a reporter...
- De Briana en 05-07-18
De: Ethan Watters