Remove 2021 Remove Personality disorders Remove Trauma and the brain
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Human

Mad in America

Perhaps if I took a different prescription or combination of prescriptions, my brain would magically adjust and rid me of my alleged ‘chemical imbalance’. I had been diagnosed with numerous ‘disorders’ because I had a traumatic childhood. My brain sat in my skull like a dead goldfish. I was severely unwell. I was disgusted.

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

Mad in America

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.