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

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Originally intended to highlight risk factors, ACE scores are now used by clinicians to diagnose individuals, despite overlooking resilience and individual variations in response to adversity. Jonathan Haidt has described the current generation as fragile due to being overprotected and less resilient.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Thanks to a variety of therapies and social factors, I had managed to develop a positive self-image and resilience that made life truly worth living again. Almost all of the disorders that I had been diagnosed with were in complete remission. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away. That also makes it difficult.