How to Keep the World from Getting You Down

by Mary Beth Huwe

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people in the tube

There’s a new disease going around, and boy howdy… it is communicable.

I first noticed it affecting some of my patients in 2009 during my clinical internship in acupuncture school. In the intervening years, the illness has become virtually omnipresent in my circles; almost every adult I encounter suffers from one or more of the symptoms.

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Happy Memorial Day: Triggering PTSD with Fireworks.

by Mary Beth Huwe

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Another Memorial Day has come and gone. A time when we profess to honor our service people by blowing up a bunch of fireworks. I cannot make sense of this ritual. Who is it for?

I can tell you who it’s NOT for. Him:

I wish this were more obvious.

And lots (and lots) of others like him.

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