Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?

Personality disorders 52

Personality disorders Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness 52

Mad in America

JUNE 24, 2025

CVA research—childhood verbal abuse—suggests that an incident like this can alter the developing brain. For someone to believe that repeated—or even perhaps one-time—exposure to something like CVA wouldn’t impact a child’s brain suggests an ego issue, doesn’t it? On my way down, I passed the piano. What can I say? I was four.

Trauma and the brain 95

Trauma and the brain Personality disorders 95

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.” “T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke.

Hospitality 145

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 145

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. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 145

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 145

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.

Trauma and the brain 145

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Autism spectrum Anxiety disorders 145

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

In psychotic disorders, motivation and pleasure (MAP) deficits are associated with decreased affiliation and heightened functional impairment. Participants ( N = 122) who reported poorer belonging at baseline experienced greater depressive symptoms, greater worry, and worse psychological well-being over the 14-month follow-up period.

Resilience and coping 59

Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 59

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

Higgins, MD Tara Westover grew up in rural Idaho in a family that did not trust doctors, schools, or the government. She was delivered at home, her birth was not recorded, and—of course—she was not vaccinated. Her father demanded unwavering adherence to his interpretation of the Bible and The Book of Mormon.

Bipolar disorder 52

Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Eating disorders 52

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

Autism spectrum 40

Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative. One of the purported positive effects of psychiatric diagnoses is the relief a person may feel when an expert tells them how and why they suffer. And this is sometimes true, at least in the short run.

Trauma and the brain 136

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 136