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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

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W ith all the recent coverage of the youth mental health crisis and the role of social media, little attention has been given to the way platforms like TikTok promote certain narratives about mental health—shifting not only the conversation but also the way mental health issues are actually experienced.

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

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Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

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The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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17:650 They wrote that the lack of compliance is worst for psychoses, which leads to lack of recovery, relapse and readmissions, and that the patients must understand that the diseases will have health and social consequences if the treatment is not being followed. They are restricted uneducational grants, as their purpose is to buy doctors.

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Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself

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OK, I think you have this disorder, and I’m going to write you a prescription for this, this, and this.” CT: Oh, definitely. They said I was ‘mentally ill, but not mentally ill enough to be psychotic’ and that I had personality disorders. I sleep OK. RG: All in a single appointment?

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