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Melissa Stennett Deuter, MD

Substance Use and Mental Illness: The Chicken and the Egg?

So you’re stuck drinking and smoking weed? Because you’re afraid your anxiety will get worse if you stop?

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Posted on July 16, 2018 by Melissa Deuter.

Summer Camp: A Little Independence Away from Over-Supervised Childhood

They have very little experience making independent decisions (and mistakes). And this is how they grow into adults with anxiety, into adults who lack confidence in their ability to manage life without someone to tell them what to do.

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Posted on July 9, 2018 by Melissa Deuter.

It Seems Half Of Young People In Their 20’s Are Labeled With (Or Label Themselves With) A Mental Disorder. How Did We Get Here?

It may be a side effect of raising public awareness about mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. We have brought mental illness to the front of people’s minds. And we have inadvertently created a side effect of pathologizing some aspects of normal experience.

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Posted on July 2, 2018 by Melissa Deuter.

Mental Health Symptoms May Spark from Neurobiology in The Brain, But That’s Never the Whole Story

Mental health care involves care of the whole person, not just pills to change the biology of the brain.

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Posted on June 25, 2018 by Melissa Deuter.
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