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My older brother used to read me a story every night before bed. He would tuck me in and read me a chapter from the…
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Evidence-based mental health care services are largely inaccessible to those who need it. Marginalized populations, as well as those who are unemployed or at-risk, tend…
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What if you could interact with a therapist, learn new skills to improve your well-being and gain access to information that would normally be learned…
![A Blood Test to Diagnose Depression?](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/05/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern believe it may be possible to diagnose depression using a blood test. According to Eva Redei,…
![I Am Not My Eating Disorder](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2012/07/eating-disorder-scale-470x140.jpg?x81652)
For those of us who have never personally struggled with an eating disorder, it is easy to judge, easy to assume that recovery is just…
![Hoarding as a Reaction to Trauma](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2011/06/hoarding-470x140.jpg?x81652)
It is estimated that one to two million people in North America are living in so much clutter that they can barely walk through their…