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

Mad in America

Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. However, there’s another problem: Given psychiatry’s lack of definitive diagnostic tests, it has always been vulnerable to malingering and simulation.

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Selective Mutism: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options

Now Psych

Selective Mutism: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment Options Selective mutism is a childhood anxiety disorder that affects a child’s ability to speak in certain social situations. This disorder can cause significant impairment in a child’s social, academic, and emotional development.

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

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According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. 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. It’s the hypnosis.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

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I’m diagnosing a depressive and anxiety disorder and recommending medication.” She has a book called Radical Acceptance and I definitely borrowed it from her and have learned a lot of the concepts from her too. He’s more educated than them on the subject at this point. What does radical acceptance mean for you?

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The Best Treatment for Tics and Tourette’s

Child Mind Intitute

It incorporates habit reversal training that’s the core piece of the treatment but it’s an overall treatment package, explains Amanda Greenspan, LCSW, training coordinator and social worker in the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute. It’s definitely hard work.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

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Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products. Dhar: Is this what inspired you to create the “documentary” for ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder’ and the April Fool piece in BMJ along with it? A rational medical system would organize the education of their doctors differently.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. Our understanding of key terms and definitions needs to be clear and consistent if our prevention efforts are to be effective.