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Medicine
fromPsychology Today
7 hours ago

Cannabis and Complex Neuropsychiatric Treatment

Cannabis shows growing therapeutic promise for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, can reduce caregiver burden, and faces barriers from federal law, stigma, and funding.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Growing Up with a Mentally Unwell Parent: Three Core Themes

As young carers, they felt disconnected from their parents' compromised behavior, and the heavy weight of coping with it by themselves. They at once loved and resented having to take care of them. One participant shared: "I hated to spend all the time caring for my father, accompanying him, having no 'me time'. I still loved him, enjoyed the closeness with him, never wanting to lose him, even if he was so dependent on me."
Mental health
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