Benzo Withdrawal Symptoms Can Be Life-Threatening

Benzo Withdrawal Symptoms Can Be Life-Threatening

Tasha Hedges took Xanax for 20 years to treat her anxiety and panic attacks, exactly as a psychiatrist had prescribed it. Then in 2022, that doctor unexpectedly died. A general practitioner continued her prescription but retired shortly afterward. The next doctor moved to Canada. Finally, Ms. Hedges found a new …

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How Could I Not Love My Baby?

How Could I Not Love My Baby?

I counted 26. No, 27. Wait, did that one fly away? Several years ago, on a cold winter day, I sat on the stone steps of the American Museum of Natural History counting pigeons like it was the most important task in the world. Me. A grown woman with a …

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This Therapist Helped Clients Feel Better. It Was A.I.

This Therapist Helped Clients Feel Better. It Was A.I.

The quest to create an A.I. therapist has not been without setbacks or, as researchers at Dartmouth thoughtfully describe them, “dramatic failures.” Their first chatbot therapist wallowed in despair and expressed its own suicidal thoughts. A second model seemed to amplify all the worst tropes of psychotherapy, invariably blaming the …

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6 Ways to Calm Your Anxiety When Economic Stress Flares

6 Ways to Calm Your Anxiety When Economic Stress Flares

Even before this year’s economic turmoil hit, financial anxiety among Americans was running high. Really high. Four out of five Americans in a survey for Discover last year said they were worried about their money situation, with inflation, everyday expenses and the state of the economy leading a litany of …

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Kitty Dukakis, Wife of 1988 Presidential Nominee, Dies at 99

Kitty Dukakis, Wife of 1988 Presidential Nominee, Dies at 99

Kitty Dukakis, an activist first lady and humanitarian, who overcame alcoholism and depression with the help of electroconvulsive therapy, then became a proponent of the treatment with her husband, Michael S. Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, died on Friday night at her home in …

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The Ex-Patients’ Club

The Ex-Patients’ Club

On a recent Friday morning, Daniel, a lawyer in his early 40s, was in a Zoom counseling session describing tapering off lithium. Earlier that week he had awakened with racing thoughts, so anxious that he could not read, and he counted the hours before sunrise. At those moments, Daniel doubted …

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