Childhood trauma Definition Self-awareness 
Mad in America
MAY 2, 2024
This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. A functional psychiatrist may consider one patient’s depression to be the compounding result of childhood trauma and hypothyroidism, and another’s to be the result of metabolic issues, autoimmunity, and food allergies.
Mad in America
JUNE 22, 2024
The result is a form of “marketing” that encourages self-diagnosis and the embrace of disorders as identity by watering down the definition of mental suffering—and, paradoxically, minimizing understanding and compassion for those who are truly struggling. Just ask the students themselves. .’
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Mad in America
JULY 12, 2024
No definitive ‘A’ led to ‘B’ and therefore ‘C’, but more like I swallowed the English alphabet and spat out hieroglyphs. It might have been the re-activation of deeply rooted childhood trauma brought on by situations in my workplace. It’s hard to identify a definitive starting point. I felt deplorable, by any standards.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Terms like “broken brain,” “childhood trauma,” “unresolved grief,” and “family dysfunction” come to mind. He was keenly aware of societal injustices, and his stories often highlight humans striving amidst overwhelming challenges. This heightened awareness leads him to a breakdown.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Here’s a basic definition from the internet : “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.” So I decided to indulge my wife’s deep longings for her unfulfilled childhood wishes.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. Other influential figures like Patricia Resick and Charles Marmar emphasized the importance of addressing both objective events and the subjective experience of trauma.
Mad in America
JUNE 3, 2025
Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative.
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