Mark Lyons Jr
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The Intricate Dance of Recovery: Rethinking Healing in Mental Health and Substance Use
Recovery is often described in clinical language. Treatment plans, symptom reduction, relapse prevention, and measurable outcomes.…
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The Power of Peer Support: Why Healing Often Begins When Someone Finally Understands
There are some things education can teach, and there are some things only lived experience can…
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A review of North Carolina’s mental health laws
This is a primary-source review of North Carolina’s current mental health law, focused on what the…
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Ancient Aliens, Stolen Credit, and the Quiet Death of Faith in Human Greatness
There is something deeply revealing about the fact that so many people today look at the…
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The Universe May Be Fractal, Holographic… and Personal: What Physics, Perception, and the Multiverse of Self Might Reveal About Reality
One of the most powerful realizations I’ve had while studying psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and physics is…
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When the World Goes Quiet, the Mind Gets Loud
There is a deceptively simple idea that can reorganize how we think about hallucinations—without slipping into…
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Narcissism, Perception, and the Slow Violence of Becoming Unreachable
We throw the word “narcissist” around like it’s a universal solvent. Someone hurt you? Narcissist. Someone…
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Time Isn’t Man-Made—But Our “Interface” With Time Is
We do not invent gravity by naming it. We do not create temperature by measuring it.…
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The Paperwork of Authoritarianism: How Democracies Normalize Cruelty
History rarely repeats in perfect photocopies. It rhymes—with different uniforms, different paperwork, different slogans. That is…
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Do You Want to Travel Through Time? Try This: The Circle of Time (A Journey Within)
When people hear “time travel,” their brain tends to jump straight to sci-fi: wormholes, DeLoreans, cosmic…