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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

Mad in America

She had left with 10 diagnoses including learning difficulties, borderline personality disorder and PTSD and multiple medications. She takes exams and gets into University only to be told that her mental health record prevents them from offering her a place. So she goes back to the hospital to ask for a recommendation.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

Mad in America

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” Gaining my freedom has been gradual, and it took until 2018 to fully escape from the shackles of psychiatry.

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

Mad in America

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 is a serious disorder, reflecting the deep psychological scars left by genuine trauma.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Personal Statement : Dr. Young’s specific areas of clinical interest include treating complex mood disorders, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, personality disorders, and substance use disorders. Board Member, Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry, 2011 2018.

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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

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

Mad in America

The book draws from Passies earlier academic work, including his 2018 journal article “The Early Use of MDMA (Ecstasy) in Psychotherapy (19771985).” Passies book The History of MDMA and his 2018 journal article feature a laudatory section titled Rick Ingrasci: MDMA in Couples and Patients with Life-Threatening Illnesses.