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Medical Gaslighting

The dismissal, minimization, or invalidation of a patient’s reported symptoms or experiences by healthcare providers, often leading patients to doubt their own perceptions. The phenomenon disproportionately affects women, people of colour, disabled people, and neurodivergent…

Mental Health(also: Mental Well-Being, Psychological Health)

A state of well-being encompassing emotional, psychological, and social functioning, in which an individual can cope with normal stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to their community. Mental health conditions — including anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar…

Mental Health Self-Management(also: Self-Management, Mental Health Self-Care)

The practices and strategies that individuals use to manage their mental health symptoms independently in daily life, outside of formal therapy sessions. For OCD, self-management includes applying therapeutic techniques (exposure exercises, thought diffusion), tracking symptoms,…

Mental Health Stigma(also: Psychiatric Stigma, Mental Illness Stigma)

Negative attitudes, beliefs, and discrimination directed toward people with mental health conditions, leading to social exclusion, reduced help-seeking, and diminished self-esteem. For people with OCD, stigma manifests as public misunderstanding of the condition (trivializing…

Mindfulness(also: Mindfulness Meditation, Mindfulness-Based Practice)

The practice of directing non-judgmental attention to present-moment experience — bodily sensations, breath, thoughts, and emotions — typically cultivated through structured meditation, body-scan exercises, or informal awareness in daily activity. Rooted in Buddhist…

Music Psychotherapy

A form of music therapy that uses musical activities — songwriting, improvisation, lyric analysis, receptive listening — to address emotional, psychological, and relational concerns rather than sensory or rehabilitative goals. Practitioners are typically licensed music…

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