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

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

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Confusingly, this is often accompanied by a desire to acquire an official diagnosis, even if the person does not see autism or ADHD as a ‘disorder’, because this is the gateway to the adjustments that are said to be necessary for a neurodivergent person to live in a neurotypical world. Frazer-Carroll, M. London: Pluto Press.