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

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While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. By the mid-2020, the hashtag #TraumaDumping had garnered over 2 billion views on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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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.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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To imagine these people as having traversed these landscapes losing all their belongings and sense of self. The residents seem somewhat aware of this; however, it is the medicalization of their illness experience that they resist. 2020), Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care. and Trundle, C.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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The cost of these drugs was projected to be $62 billion in 2020, not including physician office visits to prescribe and monitor the patients on these drugs. Drug therapy of these disorders was said to cost less than, for example, treatment by a doctoral-trained psychologist.

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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. However, once again in this report its destructive impact is neglected and actively obscured by psychology in the service of neoliberal ideology that advocates extreme self-interest, competition, over-consumption, and greed. The results of the report were alarming and concerning.

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

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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.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.