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By the time Maggie May, an Arkansas resident in her 30s, was admitted to a psychiatric clinic in 2024, she had been ...

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Tuning into your body's internal signals, known as interoceptive awareness, is a powerful yet overlooked mental health ...

The treatment was unusual in that alongside talk therapy, May underwent several sessions in a sensory-deprivation chamber: a dark, soundproof room where she floated in a shallow pool of water heated ...

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