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

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 144

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.

Sleep and mental health 141

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Childhood trauma 141

Real Psychiatry

MAY 26, 2025

That requires the psychiatrist to be genuinely interested in the mental life of the other person and to avoid any potential obstructions to the flow of information. Therapeutic neutrality is a goal as well as the psychiatrist being aware of any personality characteristics that may get in the way like impatience or getting bored or annoyed.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 102

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness Anxiety disorders Personality disorders 102

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. Psychiatric verdicts are not just the property of those who deliver them.

Genetics and mental health 129

Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 129

Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.

Manufacturing 145

Manufacturing Self-awareness Legal Personality disorders 145

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Almost all of the disorders that I had been diagnosed with were in complete remission. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

Sleep and mental health 143

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 143

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

She says she was self -schooled, learning to read by parsing the Bible and Mormon writings. Tara’s mother even self-published her own counter-memoir, presumably “setting the record straight.” He did not acknowledge mistakes (such as, the inevitable collapse of civilization with Y2K… Oops!), Ostensibly, Westover was homeschooled.

Bipolar disorder 52

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

How Psychiatry Works

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Once operational, it provides internal self-regulation by producing emotions of pride and guilt according to positive and negative judgments made in the light of internal values. On the other hand, such strategies require a major added degree of self-sacrifice and self-denial. Humans are immensely social animals.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Legal Personality disorders 52

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

Awareness of structural and social threats to success can lead students from underrepresented identities to question whether they will fully belong at a given institution, which jeopardizes their psychological well-being and academic performance. oscillating, unstable interpersonal relationships in borderline personality disorder).

Resilience and coping 59

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

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. However, the following factors might be more plausible. However, the two conditions are fundamentally different, and the distinction is crucial.

Resilience and coping 143

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood 143

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. Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

Autism spectrum 40

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

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. Research into therapists who abuse clients, therefore, highlights how therapeutic models and ideologies are themselves driving and justifying abuse beyond the personal interest in self-gratification.

Psychedelic therapy 125

Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 125

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.

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 111

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?

Education 140

Education Poverty and mental health Self-awareness Aging and mental health 140