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

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For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. Emily exhibited symptoms of depression and anxiety but lacked the indicators that, to me, would suggest PTSD. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs. How can one account for such an enormous increase in the prevalence of the disorder?

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic. Will one shot of toad venom in a 45-minute group ceremony keep the depression (or the anxiety) from returning or is it only good for the one day?

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This distress may significantly overlap with many of the symptoms usually taken to suggest mental illness or disorder (such as those associated with depression and anxiety).

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What Happens When There Is No Help?

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But after this event, I started visiting the school counsellor frequently. I started self-harming, just to feel my skin and keep the emotional pain at bay. The anxiety disorder eventually made me afraid of ever leaving the house alone, or staying at home alone. The first time I saw a psychiatrist was around age 12.