Anxiety disorders Autism spectrum Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
MAY 17, 2025
It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics.
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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