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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

Trends in Diagnosis One day, I mustered the courage to ask him if my assumption that I might have borderline personality disorder was accurate. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder? But you don’t have borderline personality disorder.”

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Day # 147: Bulimia Nervosa Part 2

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders as we discuss bulimia nervosa. In part 1 we detailed an introduction, definitions, diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. See part 1 for complete definitions and diagnostic criteria. Patients may hide symptoms or present somatic complaints.

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Day # 146: Bulimia Nervosa Part 1

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders. In part 1 we will cover an introduction, definitions, diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, and pathogenesis. Binge eating = Eating a larger-than-normal amount of food in a discrete time period (2 hours). Today's topic is bulimia nervosa.

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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

Mad in America

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. Concept creep can also involve trivialized portraits of specific disorders.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.