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Sleep Isn’t a Secondary Symptom: What the Evidence Says About Sleep and Mental Health
If you deal with anxiety, depression, or ADHD, you may have heard that poor sleep is something that will resolve itself after treatment (particularly in the case of anxiety). Clinical psychiatric research points the other way: disrupted sleep frequently drives and maintains mental health struggles, rather than trailing behind them. In a presentation for Columbia Psychiatry, sleep researcher Dr. Philip Gehrman outlined the clinical data: chronic insomnia and circadian disrupti
Shannon Briggs
Oct 274 min read
ADHD: Origins and Outcomes
ADHD is unique amongst mental health disorders for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it is one of the most ‘heritable’ psychological conditions that we currently know of. This leads us to the common-sense conclusion that ADHD is likely genetic...
Shannon Briggs
Aug 183 min read
Spirit Against Spirit: How Carl Jung Inspired the Founding of AA
The origins of addiction therapy and its divergence from traditional therapy methods can be traced back to psychoanalysis and its founders, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
Shannon Briggs
Jul 235 min read
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