Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News What do readers think of redemption in psychiatry?

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Mad in America

APRIL 29, 2025

In the biomedical model, this typically refers to constructs labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe major depression, or personality disorders, etc. This can disrupt ones sense of self-integration and/or provoke profound inner torment, which may or may not interfere with major life activities.

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MAY 29, 2025

It continues to be the best treatment for this disorder. The best treatment for borderline personality disorder, a very serious mental disorder that previously was regarded as intractable, is Marsha Linehans dialectical behavior therapy, which she derived from psychological research.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the delusions of psychiatry. Since I suspected it was a dubious concept, I looked it up on the Internet and found a test for schizotypal personality disorder. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. I did exactly that in my two books about psychiatry.

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. My childhood, my upbringing, that’s part of another story. The fear of possible repercussions was too great.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

MAY 27, 2025

If you or someone you care about is struggling with borderline personality disorder, depression, persistent mood shifts, or bipolar disorder and related disorders, allow me to tell you why seeking help here can be a turning point. A working mother who had given up hope now runs her own counselling blog.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A very good example of this are the many unnecessary hospitalisations of those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder who present with self-harm.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Their protests to the contrary have even been seen as indications of a personality disorder. Their more complex and debilitating withdrawal symptoms have been regarded as a return of their own symptoms. Yes, sadly, I recently heard a third-year resident in psychiatry dismiss concerns about antidepressant withdrawal in just this way.

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Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

A third example includes the historical diagnosis of Masochistic Personality Disorder specifically applied to women who remained in abusive relationships, a sleight of hand which again involves blaming the victim, rather than placing the problem within the perpetrator, or even the system that enables it (Herman, 1997).

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As you know, I have a blog with Psychology Today that I use to explore what I see as a lot of different research programs in mental health that exemplify what I’m calling madness-as-strategy. There I talk about depression, I talk about some of the so-called personality disorders.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

MAY 27, 2025

Neuropsychiatric Conditions: Our deep experience with disorders like schizophrenia, OCD, and personality disorders helps us manage even the most complex cases with care and consistency. We provide structured, empathetic treatment models that combine detox, counselling, and family involvement.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. But you cannot ‘recover’ from an identity, or from being a certain kind of person. The implications for therapeutic intervention were discussed in the previous blog. The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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.” As a last resort, I underwent experimental psychosurgery in September 2001 (bilateral anterior cingulotomy).

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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. Borderline Personality Disorder “No Longer Has a Place in Clinical Practice” Image depicts the thoughts and behaviors typically associated with BPD.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 11, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Prevention of wars would reduce the extraordinary loss of lives and major trauma. This video series is taking a short break while Dr Moffic travels.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At that time (and unfortunately still in Poland), psychiatry held the belief that people with personality disorders had a dysregulated hormonal balance, which, as a budding neuroscientist, made a lot of sense to me. I felt my personality changing—I was becoming less of a human and more like a robot.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 26, 2025

Since this is a psychiatry blog, I want to add a psychiatric definition of empathy and that is: Empathy is achieved by precise, insightful, persistent, and knowledgeable questioning until the doctor is able to give an account of the patients subjective experience that the patient recognizes as his own. (2)

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

Clark, MD , Brittany Albright, MD, MPH Series | Psyched Perspectives The intersection of sex and psychiatry: an important topic for patient well-being that is often avoided due to stigma.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Feelings are a feedback system just like pain, whether its anxiety leading to a panic alarm, depression leading to a fatigue alarm, or personality disorder leading to a self-harm alarm. We all have an innate wellbeing system that works by sending us feelings to let us know when we are off, heading in a destructive direction.

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Mad in America

MARCH 12, 2024

Mental health awareness is a movement that has everyone seeking treatment and support for their “mood disorders” and “personality disorders” and “neurodivergency”, but this system isn’t leading to wellness—it’s impeding it.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

There were 14 versus 3 discontinuations (P = 0.02) among the 228 versus 190 children for reasons related to suicide and violence (suicide attempt, euphoria, manic reaction, agitation, hyperkinesia, nervousness, personality disorder, hostility, and depression).

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Mad in America

JUNE 24, 2025

The child who emotionally disconnects in self-defense becomes the adult labeled with major depression or borderline personality disorder, etc. Social misunderstanding doesn’t stop at gossip. It often becomes clinical misdiagnosis. Behaviors shaped by trauma are reclassified as symptoms.

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JULY 25, 2024

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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MARCH 2, 2024

This is a joint responsibility of the prescriber, the person tapering off and their loved ones. Monique: Under every blog, article, and video that deals with tapering and withdrawal, it is advised that you should never taper without consulting your treating physician. It is very important that all parties get involved.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 26, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Ethical considerations in medical aid in dying focus on autonomy, suffering, and the role of physicians in the process.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Juneteenth marks the delayed emancipation of slaves in Texas, reflecting historical racial mistrust, notably in healthcare contexts like the Tuskegee study.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While still gaining traction, hashtags like #Humiliation, #HumiliationTrauma, and #HumiliationWound have accumulated around 42,000 posts on TikTok, with similar content appearing on YouTube Reels , alongside research and blogs advocating greater recognition.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In a 2019 civil suit brought against MAPS phase II therapists, Yensen invoked stereotypes of borderline personality disorder, saying the participant had a history of certain psychological problems and was “a forceful and skilled manipulator. The blog editor took the unusual step of immediately taking the blog post down.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 10, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Mental health: it is time to do what is needed now or it will be more extensive and expensive later.

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Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

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).

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

2 In his September 1, 2018, blog titled “Achillean Romance With Fangs,” D.N. Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Redemption in psychiatry involves acknowledging failures and striving for improvement, extending beyond religious contexts. Bryn described “Writing Redemption Arcs.”

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Psychiatric Times

JULY 9, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Are you ready for new reading recommendations related to psychiatry? This video series is taking a short break while Dr Moffic travels.

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