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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. We were told that our brains are broken or that we would just have to cope. Like myself, no matter what they had been through, they found their innate resilience. They beat me so hard I ‘knew’ I was going to die.

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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. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Arrested Development: Britney Spears Memoir Is a Survivors Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse, and Resilience Miranda Spencer shares her thoughts on Britneys memoir entitled The Woman in Me. He didnt want to live the rest of his life bedridden and no longer able to enjoy the life that he once had and loved so much.

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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Jen: “In order to more safely cope with what is going on in a way that does not cause you harm.” One person exclaimed: I am not troubled by the increase in hospitalizations. The upside of the involuntary hospitalization numbers is that fewer people are likely dead of suicide. What a terrible and downright dangerous idea.

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Expressive Arts Therapy: Unlocking Emotional Wellness

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By expressing yourself through art, you gain valuable tools to overcome challenges and develop resilience. Your therapist might combine talk therapy with art-making sessions, allowing you to process emotions through multiple channels. Art therapy provides a safe environment for exploring and healing emotions.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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It also seems to me that if it is found that someone tried to commit suicide or may try to commit suicide, and is unconscious, it seems to me that this could allow measures that really save people’s lives, but not to hospitalize them, not to drug them.

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International Women’s Day: Interviews with Drs Joanne Fegan, Maeve Doyle and Atiqa Rafiq

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Pathologising normal life experiences removes peoples coping skills and further isolates those with serious mental illness. Although retired from my substantive post, I continue to work as a liaison psychiatrist in Tallaght University Hospital for 2 days per week for the past 5 years. Do any challenges remain?