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

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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. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

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

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Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. 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.