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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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. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Perhaps if I took a different prescription or combination of prescriptions, my brain would magically adjust and rid me of my alleged ‘chemical imbalance’. I had been diagnosed with numerous ‘disorders’ because I had a traumatic childhood. My brain sat in my skull like a dead goldfish. I was severely unwell. I was disgusted.

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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. 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. They beat me so hard I ‘knew’ I was going to die.

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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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Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Further, up to 85% of individuals with ASD present with alexithymia as well as a general tendency to intellectualize rather than experience and process emotions. ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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