2018 Education Self-awareness 
Mad in America
OCTOBER 12, 2024
While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. As The New York Times reported in 2018, patients who “try to stop taking the drugs often say they cannot.”
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Adding insult to injury, ICD-11 (2018) added complex PTSD (C-PTSD) to address prolonged trauma, such as childhood abuse or long-term domestic violence, acknowledging broader symptoms like emotional dysregulation and identity struggles. It also introduced separate criteria for children and teens.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature. The education system has become an artificial incubation chamber in which a child is sequestered from outside life.
Mad in America
JUNE 27, 2024
A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Awareness of this potential should, at least, have a role to play in guiding how services approach ‘sustaining remission’, and the advice they offer.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Many of us hope that our children will pursue a college education. is a college consultant with experience as an educator, administrator, writer, and instructional coach. To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing. J Postsecond Educ Disabil. Source 1 DuPau, G.J.,
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses.
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