Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Personality disorders Self-awareness 143

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years. times more likely to have experienced adverse childhood events than healthy individuals.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I thought I was feeling the sadness and terror of my circumstances, but the events were over. I was never given an official diagnosis. Back in the early 1980s in the UK no one would have thought to ask what their doctor was writing in our file. It was for them, not us, full consent wasn’t in our consciousness. And then it happened again.

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Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 143

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 144

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40