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

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This represents a significant shift in PTSD diagnoses from predominantly affecting men in the 1980s, when men constituted about 70% of diagnosed cases, to now predominantly affecting women, who by 2020 made up 70% of diagnosed cases. Jonathan Haidt has described the current generation as fragile due to being overprotected and less resilient.

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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Approximately one year later in July 2020, the FCC adopted rules to begin establishing #988, and in October of the same year, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act was signed into law. Jen: “In order to more safely cope with what is going on in a way that does not cause you harm.” What a terrible and downright dangerous idea.

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020. This same individualistic, illness-based bias is evidenced in an article, “Stress in America 2021,” which described the how physical health was harmed by individuals’ inability to cope in healthy ways with the stress of the pandemic. Some examples illustrate this.

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

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Her way of coping with the family and our situation had stopped working. But her humor, her logic, and her resilience are incredible. ” Shes fighting her bitterness about that, but her resilience amazes me. When she was 42, there were provincial healthcare cutbacks. I think she was just fed up. She just broke.

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

Mad in America

Her way of coping with the family and our situation had stopped working. But her humor, her logic, and her resilience are incredible. ” She’s fighting her bitterness about that, but her resilience amazes me. When she was 42, there were provincial healthcare cutbacks. I think she was just fed up. She just broke.