Definition Hospitality Personality disorders 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 1, 2023
The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. But I remained well, and finally, the detention order was lifted. What had happened to the norm?
Mad in America
OCTOBER 13, 2023
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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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. Workplaces follow suit to boost employee well-being.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 23, 2023
639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. Since I suspected it was a dubious concept, I looked it up on the Internet and found a test for schizotypal personality disorder. I did exactly that in my two books about psychiatry. This is what psychiatric drugs do to people.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.
Bullet Psych
OCTOBER 7, 2022
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.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
The conflation of ‘disorder’ with ‘identity’ is helped by the fact that, despite long lists of criteria, psychiatric diagnoses such as ASD and ADHD are ultimately based on subjective judgements (by the clinician) about subjective experiences (of the client), rather than on biomarkers—because there are none.
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