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

Mad in America

DSM-5 (2013) moved away from listing specific events and focused more on the subjective experience, including responses to threats of death, serious injury, or violence. Child mortality rates have plummeted due to better prenatal and postnatal care, vaccinations, and improved nutrition.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The article also cites a study from 2013 that “found that including a doula in prenatal care reduces adverse birth outcomes while benefiting mothers, babies, and the medical community as a whole. ”

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

2, 3, 4 Lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and sleep exert epigenetic changes on DNA that influence how strongly or weakly ADHD genes are expressed. Levels of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin also increase with exercise, thus improving focus, working memory, and mood to enable better learning. 2013 Apr;33(3):417-25.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

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The suicides seemed to trigger a general darkening in the mood at the schools. But I am still confused by what happened with the teen train track suicides in Palo Alto—first in 2009-2010, again in 2013-14, and yet again in 2015-16. That girl endured years of ECT after her brother’s death.