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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

Yet, she expressed that the moderate eye blinking and mild lip movements were impacting her job, emotions, self-esteem, and social functioning, causing significant distress, so she readily agreed to initiate VMAT2 inhibitor treatment to minimize these movements to the greatest degree possible.

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

While some providers embrace mental health apps as tools to assist with patient routines and self-care, others remain cautious about their efficacy and appropriate use. July 13, 2021. A similar divide exists in the field of mental health. The increased availability of medical information online also presents challenges. Cogent Soc Sci.

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

Mad in America

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The re-framing of diagnosis as identity in some parts of the neurodiversity movement leads to an insistence on identity-first language—an ‘autistic person’ rather than ‘a person with autism.’

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Almost all of the disorders that I had been diagnosed with were in complete remission. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

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Brief Book Reviews: June 2025

Psychiatric Times

She says she was self -schooled, learning to read by parsing the Bible and Mormon writings. Tara’s mother even self-published her own counter-memoir, presumably “setting the record straight.” He did not acknowledge mistakes (such as, the inevitable collapse of civilization with Y2K… Oops!), Ostensibly, Westover was homeschooled.