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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Personal Statement : Dr. Young’s specific areas of clinical interest include treating complex mood disorders, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, personality disorders, and substance use disorders. Board Member, Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry, 2011 2018.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

Mad in America

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” Gaining my freedom has been gradual, and it took until 2018 to fully escape from the shackles of psychiatry.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

The same is true of attempts to reframe other diagnostic labels as ‘identities’—including the most contentious, ‘borderline personality disorder’ which, it is suggested, can be ‘destigmatised’ through ‘ neuroqueer feminism ’. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Johnson, M.

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Supportive Psychotherapy - The Clinical Language of Psychiatry

Real Psychiatry

The best example in that case is this diagram from Kroll (6) on treating patient with borderline personality disorder. London: Elsevier; 2018. Some had experience in shifting from one paradigm to another based on whether the patient was making progress or tolerating the current interventions. London: Saunders; 1995.

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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

Mad in America

She had left with 10 diagnoses including learning difficulties, borderline personality disorder and PTSD and multiple medications. She takes exams and gets into University only to be told that her mental health record prevents them from offering her a place. So she goes back to the hospital to ask for a recommendation.

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Brief Book Reviews: June 2025

Psychiatric Times

BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews. Gold, MD, MS April 8th 2025 Lorazepam and the White Lotus in our Tariff Times H.

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Sex and Psychiatry: The Sizzling, Steamy, Neglected Topic

Psychiatric Times

October 2018. Wellness Interventions for Life’s Demands (WILD-5 Wellness): Exercise, Mindfulness, Sleep, Social Connectedness, and Nutrition – Improving Mental and Physical Health Through Holistic Daily Behavior Change. Poster session presented at US Psych Congress Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.