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

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The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Rather than give us a serenic, which many might feel was not unreasonable to take at times, doctors have to give us an anxiety disorder. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 2023, 25, 119-134. Rather than market a tonic to us to improve our appetite or sleep, marketing to doctors means making us depressed.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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Pigott’s 2023 publication in the British Medical Journal of data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, which appeared not many months before that story, documents STAR*D’s flagrantly erroneous data analyses. Within days of learning of the misreporting of cancer research at Dana Farber, that story was on page one of the Times.