Events Personality disorders Self-awareness 
Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
W hen asked about her behavior during a psychiatric assessment for personality disorders, one patient’s response included this description: It was completely crazy. Professionals assess and diagnose the disorder situated in a patient’s mind so that interventions can be targeted to alleviate the disorder.
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 13, 2025
Additionally, she reports she is attending fewer social events out of embarrassment. The clinician should ensure the patient is relaxed and should be aware of various activating maneuvers, such as tapping each finger to the thumb of one hand while looking for movements everywhere else.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2024
The three trial reports seriously underreported suicide attempts, other suicidal events, and precursors to suicide and violence on active drug, and provided false claims that the drugs were effective. After 19 weeks, 42 children on fluoxetine versus 28 on placebo had experienced nervous system events (P = 0.01).
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
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.’
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. .’ Still, this extreme openness isn’t completely new — especially online.
Real Psychiatry
MAY 26, 2025
More specifically: The acute deficiency which we call a crisis, occurs when a patient whose life may previously have been in a state of reasonable equilibrium has more or less suddenly become deeply disturbed by a stressful event that may be real , symbolic , or fantasized , and that has precipitated a condition of psychological insufficiency. (p.
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