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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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Editor’s Note: This article is being simultaneously published on Mad in America and on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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These harms increase the risk of suicide and violence, but the published article did not present any such data. There were no data about these important harms in the published article. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. In the published trial report of study HCJE, Emslie et al.

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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. However, the following factors might be more plausible. However, the two conditions are fundamentally different, and the distinction is crucial.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Almost all of the disorders that I had been diagnosed with were in complete remission. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

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

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We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The re-framing of diagnosis as identity in some parts of the neurodiversity movement leads to an insistence on identity-first language—an ‘autistic person’ rather than ‘a person with autism.’

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview by a Psychiatrist

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Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

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ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.