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

Mad in America

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. Jonathan Haidt has described the current generation as fragile due to being overprotected and less resilient.

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

Mad in America

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

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Back-to-School Support & Teen Mental Health Treatment: Practical Tips for Parents

Clear Behavioral Health

This is all happening while their brains, and their senses of self, are still developing. A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2]. A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2].

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

Mad in America

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. I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

Mad in America

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.