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

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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. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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However, the problem of smartphones is in some ways particularly emblematic of the perverse dynamics of our technological society. Almost every advance in technology makes corresponding demands on the human person. The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society.

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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

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Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

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Dr. Gordon Warme: The Curious Case of an Unconventional Psychiatrist

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I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. At 16 she was forcefully hospitalized and became tethered to psychiatry for the rest of her life. Gordon Warme was kind of an endangered species, since many psych-professionals today peddle cures and new technologies.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

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Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm. Third: It feeds into the epidemic of self-diagnosis raging across the internet, particularly among teenage girls, and particularly on TikTok with its “sick-role subculture.” For the brain.