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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

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Clinically speaking, early childhood trauma often leads to insecure attachment styles and maladaptive survival strategies. While some neurological and genetic conditions may exist, they are less common than often assumed. Even these conditions can be managed and mitigated through a modified version of this approach.

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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

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They regarded phobias as unconscious representations of hidden childhood traumas, and they were convinced by this theory that eliminating the phobia would precipitate a psychosis. It continues to be the best treatment for this disorder.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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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.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) The rise in trauma diagnoses is partly driven by the misuse of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework, which was designed to study the link between childhood trauma and long-term health, not as a diagnostic tool.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

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And none better to start with than the diagnoses labeled personality disorders. They comprise a group of diagnoses that do catastrophic damage to the person who is taught to identify with them. In my two years of regrettable service I did not find anyone whose personality seemed to be disordered (whatever that means).