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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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Borderline Personality Disorder “No Longer Has a Place in Clinical Practice” Image depicts the thoughts and behaviors typically associated with BPD. In June, Micah Ingle wrote that researchers from the UK and New Zealand argue that Borderline Personality Disorder should be abandoned as a diagnostic category.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Therefore, in 2019, I decided to get start tapering once again. I tapered off citalopram with tapering strips between October 2019 and January 2020. They kept attributing my symptoms to a non-objectifiable personality disorder which, according to the DSM, does not have to be permanent and which had been in remission for 10 years.

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Veterans & Substance Abuse

Solara Mental Health

In fact, according to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2019, 26.9% What is Substance Use Disorder (SUD)? Substance use disorder (SUD), often called “addiction,” is a mental health disorder. These disorders can be both medical and psychiatric. of veterans abused illicit drugs.

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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. He also has a strong interest in sports and performance psychiatry.

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

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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

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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

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Multiple former patients came forward with accounts of Ingrasci sexually abusing them during therapy sessions with MDMA and ketamine (see also: Psymposia reporting in 2019 ). Yensen and Dryer both remain unrepentant and hosted training programs for psychedelic therapists in 2018 and 2019.