Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

Yet, she expressed that the moderate eye blinking and mild lip movements were impacting her job, emotions, self-esteem, and social functioning, causing significant distress, so she readily agreed to initiate VMAT2 inhibitor treatment to minimize these movements to the greatest degree possible. Teva Pharmaceuticals; 2025.

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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.’

Trauma and the brain 144

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. It increased demand for therapy and medication, amplified the importance and influence of experts within the field and justified allocating more resources to it.

Resilience and coping 143

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you? One of the books we read together was Charles Taylors Sources of the Self , which is a landmark in hermeneutic thought. Over time, what it means to be a self has shifted dramatically. Can you quantify justice?

Poverty and mental health 139

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