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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

In 2009-2010, I had a very tough time. In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek Lemmens : By nature, I am adventurous. But afterwards, I picked up my life.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Current Positions : Serving third term on the MPS Council, Co-Chair of MPS Legislative Committee, Corresponding Member of the APA Council for Medical Education and Lifelong Learning. Dr. Young is passionate about patient advocacy, reducing stigma, and medical education. Council (2-year term, four vacancies) Traci Speed, M.D.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

The same is true of attempts to reframe other diagnostic labels as ‘identities’—including the most contentious, ‘borderline personality disorder’ which, it is suggested, can be ‘destigmatised’ through ‘ neuroqueer feminism ’. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Johnson, M.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.