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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

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The result is a form of “marketing” that encourages self-diagnosis and the embrace of disorders as identity by watering down the definition of mental suffering—and, paradoxically, minimizing understanding and compassion for those who are truly struggling. .’ Still, this extreme openness isn’t completely new — especially online.

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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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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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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

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Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder. This is why it is sometimes important to also listen to what they are pointing towards.

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

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Other influential figures like Patricia Resick and Charles Marmar emphasized the importance of addressing both objective events and the subjective experience of trauma. Similarly, efforts to enhance the climate of respect and accountability in the military have helped to stabilize and even reduce the rates of sexual assault in some branches.

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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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This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. 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.

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The Roots of Anxiety: Inner Child vs. Conscious Self

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When you can begin differentiating a ‘lower self’ (inner child) idea from a conscious more updated idea, you will be well on your way to healing the roots of anxiety. Are your anxious thoughts and feelings stemming from past conditioning or from your present-day awareness? Notice the sensations in your body.