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

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While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. It increased demand for therapy and medication, amplified the importance and influence of experts within the field and justified allocating more resources to it.

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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.” So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. I think radical acceptance and radical self-awareness go hand in hand.

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

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One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

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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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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. These international campaigns helped lead to the development of the National Depression Awareness Campaign, launched in 1994 by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia.