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  • AA, addiction, Buzzfeed, COVID19, recovery

    How To Stay Sober During A Global Pandemic

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    March 27, 2020
    How To Stay Sober During A Global Pandemic

    For Buzzfeed “There’s just something to be said for close contact and human proximity.”

    Continue reading →: How To Stay Sober During A Global Pandemic
  • COVID19, health, health care, Non-Fiction, Vice

    ‘This Is Our Chernobyl’: New York City’s Doctors and Nurses Are Terrified

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    March 21, 2020
    ‘This Is Our Chernobyl’: New York City’s Doctors and Nurses Are Terrified

    For Vice Health care professionals fear they’re being put at risk and set up for failure during one of the most critical fights in the city’s history.

    Continue reading →: ‘This Is Our Chernobyl’: New York City’s Doctors and Nurses Are Terrified
  • 911 dispatchers, mental health, PTSD, Vice

    911 Dispatchers Hear the Worst Moments of Our Lives. Who Listens To Them?

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    March 13, 2020
    911 Dispatchers Hear the Worst Moments of Our Lives. Who Listens To Them?

    Everyday, they grapple with traumatic experiences, punishing hours, and high rates of PTSD. No one seems to care—not even the people they call colleagues.

    Continue reading →: 911 Dispatchers Hear the Worst Moments of Our Lives. Who Listens To Them?
  • Non-Fiction

    Will Hill’s Pay for Selling Poison?

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    March 13, 2020
    Will Hill’s Pay for Selling Poison?

    For The Canine Review Sherri Anderson’s Bichon-Yorkie mix, Daytona, was two pounds overweight when she says her veterinarian recommended Hill’s Prescription Diet w/d dry food for weight control. Twelve-year-old Daytona had been eating the Hill’s food for about three years when, according to Ms. Anderson, in late November of 2018, Daytona suddenly…

    Continue reading →: Will Hill’s Pay for Selling Poison?
  • COVID19, healthline, mental health, Uncategorized

    How are people with OCD handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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    March 11, 2020
    How are people with OCD handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?

    For Healthline “You think, ‘If 20 seconds is good, then 40 seconds is better.’ It’s a slippery slope.”

    Continue reading →: How are people with OCD handling the COVID-19 Pandemic?
  • COVID19, healthline, mental health, PTSD, Uncategorized

    Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to Increased Rates of PTSD and Trauma?

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    March 9, 2020
    Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to Increased Rates of PTSD and Trauma?

    for Healthline By now, it’s become extremely clear that the best way to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is for all of us to practice physical distancing and stay home. While cases of COVID-19 are still in all 50 states, states with early shelter-in-place orders have been able to “flatten the curve” more…

    Continue reading →: Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Lead to Increased Rates of PTSD and Trauma?
  • Inverse, Non-Fiction, relationships

    Can Office Romances Ever Be Ethical? Psychologists and Daters Dish.

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    March 2, 2020
    Can Office Romances Ever Be Ethical? Psychologists and Daters Dish.

    For Inverse The “office romance” has become a confusing, and especially controversial, space to navigate. So how do you navigate it all?

    Continue reading →: Can Office Romances Ever Be Ethical? Psychologists and Daters Dish.
  • fertility, fertility preservation, Non-Fiction, Vice

    The High-Rolling, Medically Questionable World Of Luxury Egg Freezing

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    December 24, 2019
    The High-Rolling, Medically Questionable World Of Luxury Egg Freezing

    For Vice This decade’s egg-freezing boom was supposed to offer career-minded women an empowering insurance policy. But what if the process is actually just a “very expensive lottery ticket”?

    Continue reading →: The High-Rolling, Medically Questionable World Of Luxury Egg Freezing
  • healthline, mental health, Non-Fiction, PTSD

    What is “Medical PTSD?”

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    Katie MacBride

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    October 17, 2019
    What is “Medical PTSD?”

    For Healthline There was the physical trauma of being sliced open and emotional trauma of being packed in ice when I went septic, and the fear that the next thing that could kill me was just a forgotten alcohol swab away.

    Continue reading →: What is “Medical PTSD?”
  • addiction, healthline, Non-Fiction, sobriety

    Can We Please Stop Describing Sober People as ‘Clean’?

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    Katie MacBride

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    October 2, 2019
    Can We Please Stop Describing Sober People as ‘Clean’?

    For Healthline When we stigmatize addiction, no one wins.

    Continue reading →: Can We Please Stop Describing Sober People as ‘Clean’?
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