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. However, there’s another problem: Given psychiatry’s lack of definitive diagnostic tests, it has always been vulnerable to malingering and simulation.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Their protests to the contrary have even been seen as indications of a personality disorder. It depends,” especially on the definitions used. Their more complex and debilitating withdrawal symptoms have been regarded as a return of their own symptoms. No single number accurately presents the whole picture of withdrawal.
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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.”
Mad in America
JUNE 22, 2024
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.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 1, 2023
On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” Coming to The Truth, and Sharing it With My Family In every setting, a leader by definition has supporters.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A very good example of this are the many unnecessary hospitalisations of those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who present with self-harm. Siloing mental illness to psychiatry is deeply problematic both from a philosophical and a pragmatic point of view. spiritual, religious, psychedelic).
Mad in America
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Since I suspected it was a dubious concept, I looked it up on the Internet and found a test for schizotypal personality disorder. One definition of madness is doing the same thing again and again expecting a different result, which is what psychiatrists do all the time with their drugs.
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