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“The issue of reimbursement by payers is an important factor that should be discussed. Is it possible that if radiologists use AI to read scans, they’ll receive less reimbursement? Or to approach this from the other angle, if payers are reimbursing for the use of AI, will they pay radiologists less as a result? My discussions with insurance executives have shown that they don’t think this is likely. If the use of these technologies will improve patient outcomes and lead to fewer errors, there are benefits to them that will motivate executives to pay for them in addition to radiologists’ reading fees.”

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Book:AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
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“How can you explain the loneliness I felt? While In the darkness by myself. How can you explain the hurt that exists from the trauma that persists. My voice seems lost Or as if aside it is tossed. My breath was taken the moment my reality was shaken My defensive behaviors were created to protect me and became automated In my fight, flight or freeze response my intimacy with others was lost at once. Now more darkness falls upon me for the protective behaviors no longer protect me but keeps me in the darkness by myself.”

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Author:Shreve Gould
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“Schon mit Anfang zwanzig hatte ich mich, nach meiner Niederlage gegen die bösartige Ikea-Hollywoodschaukel, in einer Therapie mit dem Unterschied von Drive und driven auseinandergesetzt. Ich hatte tief hineingeschaut in meine Kindheit und Jugend und wusste seitdem, dass ich zwei Arten von Ehrgeiz in mir trug. Eine helle, lustvolle und eine bedürftige, abhängige. Für diese zwei Arten von Ehrgeiz kennt die deutsche Sprache keine unterscheidenden Worte, und doch sind sie grundverschieden.”

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Book:Die Träume anderer Leute
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“The Dark Cloud Is the emotional baggage that you got from the hatred and hostility you were dealt because you tried to succeed Is the short end of the stick that outsiders receive even though they are the ones who lead Is the mental health crisis of your close family members because they went through war Is the appalling behavior of jealous fools who choose to keep score”

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Book:The Dark Cloud
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“The person who accomplishes his creative goals and excels as an artist is distinguished from equally or more creative peers by the primary attribute drive. It is the inner force of this psychological compulsion not to fame, nor to wealth, but to the compelling images of one’s own mind which sets a person apart as an artist. To succeed where so many try and fail, the creative person must have not only sensitivity, talent, and all the thousand other things we more or less think contribute to artistic accomplishment, but in addition he must deal with the demands of an internal pressure which constantly drives him toward acts of creation.”

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Book:Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create
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“Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33): - fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore, be kept out of most communities; - authoritarianism: persons with severe mental illness are irresponsible, so life decisions should be made by others; - benevolence: persons with severe mental illness are childlike and need to be cared for." World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20. PMCID: PMC1489832 Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illness PATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON”

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Author:Patrick W. Corrigan
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“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking, confronts challenges and temptations, and ultimately returns to his or her starting place, transformed and usually upgraded. This myth appears central to human experience. The Tarot, for example, which reads as a distillation of ancient mythology, is in essence about the heroic quest to become one’s true self. Even the parable of the Prodigal Son can be interpreted as a retelling of the Hero’s Journey. This journey isn’t merely external; it’s primarily internal. The Hero’s Journey, applied to our Matrix analogy, suggests that the only way out of the so-called simulation is into oneself. The hero’s ultimate inner battle is against the enemy within, the shadow self, our own Agent Smith, the unrecognized and unintegrated aspects of the psyche that only battle and hinder us until we make peace with them.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“Of all the letters I’ve received from readers, my favorite came from a homeless man. It arrived in a dirty envelope with no return address, and it was scrawled on neon orange paper. It was signed “Berkeley Baby.” It would never have made it past the New York Times mailroom after the anthrax scare. The letter writer turned out to have been the night rewrite editor on the metro desk at the New York Times before he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the mid-1970s. Since then, he had adopted the name Berkeley Baby and lived on the streets of Berkeley, California, near the university, a forlorn, sad figure not unlike the Phantom of Fine Hall. He wrote, “John Nash’s story gives me hope that one day the world will come back to me too.”

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Book:A Beautiful Mind
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“Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”

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Book:The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2, 1836 - 1841
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“You don't need your wrist to ping, you don't need your glasses to ping, you don't need your rear end to ping, you don't need your genitals to ping - ping after ping after ping after ping, and you wonder, why on earth are you so anxious, why on earth you feel like you’re walking on eggshells, why on earth you're consumed by foreboding! That's what abundance does to the brain, when you own more materials than sense - that's what happens when instant dopamine is religiously prioritized over genuine human bond.”

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Book:Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
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“Self-compassion is not self-indulgence. It's about treating yourself with the same understanding and kindness that you would offer a good friend.”

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Book:The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life
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“A reset isn't going backwards; it's clearing the path to move forward.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“The prison of your mind has no locks—only the illusion of them.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“You are not stuck with the brain you were born with; you are stuck with the excuses you make for not changing it.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“Your potential isn't hidden—it's buried under years of 'I can't' and 'what if.' Time to dig.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“Seven days can't change your past, but they can rewire your future.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“Every breakthrough begins with breaking the thought patterns that hold you back.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“Change isn't about becoming someone new—it's about removing everything that isn't authentically you.”

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Book:Mind Reset – 7 Days to Rewire Your Mind and Change Your Life: A Simple Day-by-Day Guide to Build Discipline, Confidence, and Clarity
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“Existence, for me, is not merely suffering — it is a meticulous form of torture disguised as life. I move through a world that calls itself shared, yet what I carry is mine alone: a private apocalypse, constant and precise. Others ache, yes — but not like this. Not like me.”

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Book:Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
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“What were you wearing? Why did you go to his empty house alone? Did you drink any alcohol or take any drugs before going to Samael's house? Do you have a boyfriend? If so, are you serious with him? Are you sexually active? What did you eat that day? Who cooked for you? Who dropped you off at Samael's house? I was mentally prodded, poked and attacked with quickfire questions that made no sense to me. My mind couldn't begin to fathom why they needed to know those things about me. I was astounded by how different it was this time. The worst question they asked me was: are you sure you didn't imagine it considering your past? Like it was my fault. Like I had imagined the sexual assault I had undergone. Like I had just assumed that he was that kind of guy because of what the monster did to me. I was on the verge of throwing up throughout the entire trial. My mum and dad both sat silently watching, looking like they were ready to burst. This was serious they kept on telling me. Sam was over eighteen. I could be ruining his life right now if I was wrong.”

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Book:What it's Like to Keep Living
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“DSM-5 is not 'the bible of psychiatry' but a practical manual for everyday work. Psychiatric diagnosis is primarily a way of communicating. That function is essential but pragmatic—categories of illness can be useful without necessarily being 'true.' The DSM system is a rough-and-ready classification that brings some degree of order to chaos. It describes categories of disorder that are poorly understood and that will be replaced with time. Moreover, current diagnoses are syndromes that mask the presence of true diseases. They are symptomatic variants of broader processes or arbitrary cut-off points on a continuum.”

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Author:Joel Paris
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“The categories used in psychiatric diagnosis are based on observation of signs and symptoms, rather than on pathological processes. One can make use of a few signs, such as facial expressions associated with depression or the flight of ideas associated with mania. But what clinicians mainly use for diagnosis are symptoms, the subject experiences reported by patients. Psychiatrists have little knowledge of the processes that lie behind these phenomena. Thus psychiatric diagnoses, with very few exceptions, are syndromes, not diseases.”

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Book:The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5®
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“Excited with this new adventure, he arrived at the Toronto airport, experiencing snow for the first time . . . nothing but white snow all around him. He says that he didn’t even feel the cold because of his excitement. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long before his eyes were opened to another cold reality…the snow wasn’t the only “white” surrounding him. It was the first time in his life that he felt the divisive impact of racism.”

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Book:Audley Enough: A Portrait of Triumph and Recovery in the Face of Mania and Depression
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“I was fascinated to learn from him just what a “mad” manic state was like from his point of view. He described it as a state of exhilaration; extreme high energy; racing thoughts; exaggerated self-confidence where there are no boundaries; and, a feeling of immortality. As Audley says, “You feel dangerously good.”

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Book:Audley Enough: A Portrait of Triumph and Recovery in the Face of Mania and Depression
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