Remove 2022 Remove Hospitality Remove Personality disorders
article thumbnail

How Creativity and Flexibility in Therapy Changed My Healing Journey

Mad in America

“Self Portrait” by Nancy Merlin, 2022 I began DBT when I was 20, following two hospitalizations and several suicide attempts. After my first hospitalization, I asked to be connected with a DBT therapist and saw one for a few months. I don’t remember much of it, but I did land in the hospital again a few months later.

article thumbnail

Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Mad in America

His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. Then eventually getting out and getting re-hospitalized, labelled, drugged, and so on. I was also put on Prozac.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Mad in America

For example, the violent crime rate fell by 49% between 1993 and 2022, with substantial decreases in robbery, aggravated assault, and murder rates. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. However, current trends show a very different picture.

article thumbnail

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. MPS elections are very competitive and every vote counts!!!

article thumbnail

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

Mad in America

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 ’. 2022) A critique of critical psychiatry. This is likely to have a range of unhelpful consequences.