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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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New Study Finds Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Psychosis In December, Ashley Bobak wrote about a new study which sheds new light on the profound impact of childhood trauma in the development of psychotic symptoms, particularly in treatment-resistant cases of schizophrenia.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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Medical students were tasked with presenting written cases on a variety of patients, finding examples to illustrate the most common psychiatric diagnoses. I had been present during some very distressing resuscitation attempts of young children and the memories of my awful, traumatic experience of boarding school had just surfaced.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, c.

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Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma Response

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Trauma seems to have a way of impacting brain function. For people with trauma-impacted brains, smoking isn’t just a way to unwind after a tough day; it’s a tool to quiet an ever-present storm others rarely face. It will come from addressing the root causes—childhood trauma and the systems that perpetuate it.

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The Roots of Anxiety: Inner Child vs. Conscious Self

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Are your anxious thoughts and feelings stemming from past conditioning or from your present-day awareness? The Conscious Mind Your conscious mind is where you stay present and aware. Identifying Your Reactions To heal anxiety, ask yourself: Is this anxiety coming from past fears or the present?

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

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A functional psychiatrist may consider one patient’s depression to be the compounding result of childhood trauma and hypothyroidism, and another’s to be the result of metabolic issues, autoimmunity, and food allergies. For example, a condition like depression can both contribute to, and be caused by, multiple other health conditions.