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1 month ago

Paranoid Personality Traits Should Capture Our Attention

To rise to the level of psychiatric concern, symptoms must be out of proportion to any evidence; e.g., a grandfather suspects his 33-year-old grandson Eric asking questions about family generations.
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fromThe Walrus
3 months ago

The Pill That Promises to Cure Grief | The Walrus

"In 2022, prolonged grief disorder was added to a text revision of the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... Too much grief had become an official diagnosis."
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3 months ago

An Epidemic of Need: The Surge in Childhood Psychiatric Diagnoses

The rise in childhood diagnoses reflects societal shifts in understanding rather than an actual increase in mental health issues.
Expanded definitions in DSM-5 blur the lines of mental health diagnostics and increase access.
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