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

Mad in America

Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

Mad in America

But I think what we’re doing there is intervening and derailing the rest of their life because we’re not allowing them to learn and build resilience and feel what it feels like to be uncomfortable and understand that that’s going to ebb and flow and how do we get out of that. Everything is so reactive.

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How I Knew I Had Conquered Anxiety Permanently

The Anxiety Guy

I realized this in my physical self. With this release, I realized that I had finally overcome my anxiety and could now live a more resilient and peaceful life. You should definitely watch my YouTube video on surrender sessions on a regular basis. That ceased to occur. For most people, surrendering occurs later in the process.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

Our goal was that, by the time the DSM-5 was released, the headlines wouldnt call it the definitive manual of psychiatrythey would call it controversial. It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. In that context, compartmentalization is a useful coping mechanism. We wanted to change that.