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“Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by writer and therapist Lori Gottlieb is a memoir exploring the…
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Caring for someone who is experiencing mental health problems comes with a complicated and unique set of challenges. It can be difficult to know where…
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. People experience persistent flashbacks and recurring thoughts of the traumatic event; to…
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“I Feel Your Pain” is a song by the electronic musician Famba. The song is written from the perspective of a friend of someone suffering…
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Click here to view our podcast channel! In this episode, criminal defence lawyer Raymond Boggs discusses people who use the ‘Not Criminally Responsible by Reason…
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The poem “EPISODE I—CLINICAL DEPRESSION” BY AKIF KICHLOO dives into his struggle with his own diagnosis of depression and the separation as an individual from…
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The famous Victorian photographer Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) best known for pioneering combination printing in joining multiple negatives to form a single image, captured the…
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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the United States. Domestic and intimate partner violence are pervasive issues affecting many individuals worldwide, often whom…
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In the United States, one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives. 63% of sexual…
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Disclaimer: Please note that the following post discusses a song which contains some explicit lyrics. The song “FRIENDS” is a track from artist J. Cole’s…