Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Kids—especially teenage girls—are presenting with self-described Tourette’s, eating disorders, autism, and dissociative identity disorder (DID)—but suddenly, and in a way that doesn’t match how these diagnoses have previously been identified. Many suggest that it is time to retire this label.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Reading these presentations, one can hear anger at the others’ ideas, and anger at not being heard. One can hear pain, for suffering not recognized, and some personal affront as well. If I’m criticized roughly equally by both sides—which I expect—at least I’ll have succeeded in presenting a not-so-visible part of the geography.
Mad in America
JULY 25, 2024
I saw that I was innocently bringing the distress of the past into the present and this was what dysregulating my nervous system now. She had left with 10 diagnoses including learning difficulties, borderline personality disorder and PTSD and multiple medications. This is what rumination and anxiety really is.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 13, 2023
However, as a rule, you shouldn’t accept presents from your client, the book asserted. Trends in Diagnosis One day, I mustered the courage to ask him if my assumption that I might have borderline personality disorder was accurate. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A very good example of this are the many unnecessary hospitalisations of those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who present with self-harm.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The doctors and nurses were writing my narrative; they controlled my present and future. My children had been alone overnight for fourteen hours, and I didn’t know when, if ever, I was going to be released. My captors lurked. They continued to taunt me and question me. I was on trial and knew I had to ‘behave’.
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