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Poetry Friday - Therapy

4/15/2016

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In her third poem, poet Brenda McDonald shares her experiences of being in therapy for her anxiety and depression, highlighting the importance of human connection, of empathy, of support, and of having a safe space to try and work through the confusion and internal turmoil. 


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Therapy
Open door, closed door

Same place each week
Share what is deep down
Someone who listens to me

Connection is vital to healing
Kindness and empathy, thank you
I try to embrace all that is said
Gremlins don't allow, so sorry

Vulnerable within the four walls
Time is up, I must leave
Back to being alone
No one to lean on

What does it take to believe
Back and forth talk ends too soon
Internal tears flow freely afterwards
Only temporary safe place

Lost, what should I do
Words don't always explain
Between the cracks, looking up
Trapped in my struggling mind

Time drifts by as I think
Ruminate, round and round
Rituals steal hours from me
Give me back my sanity

Falling down the hole
Deeper into the ground
Light is getting dimmer
Reach out, I need help

Life is good, why do I suffer
Stomach wrenched, pain
Anxious, who really knows me
Too complicated, many directions

Heaviness of soul, hopeless of heart
Help me know you care, I'm broken
Love is as necessary to life as breath
Where is my self-love, stop the voices

Hide behind the mask, who am I
Without illness, would I exist
Held down with chains of fear
Why does loneliness infiltrate me

Other people live their lives
I observe, I dream, I wish
Will tomorrow be any different
Back to the four walls

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Therapy Without The Therapist?

6/24/2015

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Since the start of the 21st century, there has been an immense amount of attention and focus placed on technology, and particularly on technological advances in the fields of medicine and psychiatry. While new apps and online programs have evolved to help improve physicians' and student learners' diagnostic and therapeutic acumen, more focus is now being placed on patients themselves ...

For example, in the area of mental health‬, while psychotherapy is a powerful and important treatment for those suffering from conditions such as depression‬ and anxiety often barriers to care including access (especially in low income or rural areas), cost, and the time committment required, limit the utility of therapy. So when CBT and other similar therapeutic apps and programs began to be developed, it held huge promise and hope for reaching more people than our traditional mental health programs, but is it just as effective? Take a read of the article "Depressed? Try Therapy Without the Therapist" to learn more!

"MoodGYM and its kin are important because untreated mental illness is a huge global problem. Depression is the leading cause of disability for women worldwide, and the second-leading cause for men. If medical care is hard to come by in much of the world — in rural Indiana as well as rural India — mental health care is often impossible to get. In the United States, at least half of major depression goes untreated, and in very poor countries the figure is close to 100 percent...

Over all, the benefits of online cognitive behavioral therapy are persuasive. It allows people who could not otherwise get therapy to get it — and can help psychotherapists and specialists focus on more complex cases. It saves money for patients and health systems. And the online clinic never closes. When you can’t sleep for worry and it’s 3 a.m., your therapist is there for you."



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Psych In The News - Week 64

5/31/2015

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Catch up with all the news related to mental health and psychiatry from last week!


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Is Therapy Worth It?

2/19/2015

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When it comes to treatments for mental illness, often patients are provided with the options of medication‬ and/or talk therapy. For certain individuals and for certain mental health‬ conditions, therapy is often the standard of care, however access to these treatments can be extremely challenging. Not only are therapy services offered by the public system riddled with long wait lists and often limited to group therapy rather than one-on-one sessions due to high demand, but private therapy, while increasingly available, can be extremely expensive. The Guardian recently talked to a number of young professionals about their experiences in psychotherapy and asked for their opinions on whether they thought therapy was "worth it".  You can read more about their thoughts here: "Is Therapy Worth It?"

"I do find it helpful and I do find it important, but personally for me, there’s always this feeling – even when I have a great relationship with my therapist – I find it a bit strange that I have to pay someone to talk to me,” he says. “It just feels very exploitative in a way, because it’s paying for attention. It feels that way to me.”

"When you are in the state of mind where you realize you might need help, you probably need it right now. And it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of time to get an appointment. It takes a lot of time to find the right person,” she says."

"With a therapist, that conversation is all about you. You get in there and you are not responsible for hurting his feelings. … With your friends, you are censoring yourself to make sure that they like you. You are censoring yourself because you know your friends’ issues and you don’t want to exacerbate their own issues that they might have."


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Psych In The News - Week 45

1/4/2015

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Catch up on  all the news related to psychiatry and mental health from last week!


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Research into Bionic Implants shows promise towards Schizophrenia Treatment

11/10/2014

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Scientists have started development of a bionic implant that will be geared towards alleviation the symptoms found in Schizophrenia. This innovation is based off of previously tested conductive organic polymers which have shown success in stimulating muscle and nerve tissue! Read more here: 

http://www.iflscience.com/brain/bionic-implant-treat-mental-disorders-development
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Considering seeing a therapist? 

10/30/2014

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This blog post from Huffington Post offers some good insight "[Getting therapy] is not a lifetime commitment, but it can be a life-changing decision".

Find out more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrice-bendig/is-therapy-really-worth-i_b_6000080.html
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