psychiatry
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Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder Is Real (and Here’s How to Manage It)
Depression bears an association to bleak weather, but melancholy isn’t always associated with the colder seasons. In fact, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) doesn’t only strike in the winter; it can still rear itself when the weather is warm and sunny — and it might even hit certain people harder in the summer months.
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Signs That Your Child Needs a ‘Mental Health Day’ (and How to Give Them One)
Students were already going through a mental health crisis before the coronavirus turned their world upside down. But when the pandemic forced everyone to isolate themselves, it only exacerbated the problem.
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How to Deal With Your Childhood Trauma As an Adult
Recovering from trauma is hard no matter when it happens. However, if adversity happens during childhood, it can be especially hard to overcome. Unlike adults, children have very little control over their environment. If a child is living in an abusive home, their ability to remove themselves from that environment is extremely limited, whereas an…
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Surviving COVID Can Have Mental Health Implications, Too
According to a new analysis, people who recover from COVID-19 are more likely to have conditions that affect their mental health or their brain and nervous system, compared to people who recover from the flu or other respiratory diseases. In other words, if you’ve been having mental health issues after COVID, you are not alone.