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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Love Addiction: An Evolving Concept

For example, terms such as " rejection sensitivity dysphoria" achieve instant diagnostic status-and an acronym (RSD)-due to their popular, intuitive appeal. It's highly misleading and can do more harm than good when people embrace such concepts naively and out of context, what has been dubbed "social-media-associated abnormal illness behavior (SMAAIB in How Does Social Media Contribute to Teen Mental Illness?).
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
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Overdiagnosis of children overlooks that growing up is messy and uneven', says Jeremy Hunt

Children and young people are being overdiagnosed with mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, inflating SEND costs and medicalising normal uneven child development.
fromBusiness Matters
4 months ago
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Farage condemned by charities for 'damaging' claims on overdiagnosis of children with disabilities

Farage's comments on overdiagnosis of special educational needs provoke backlash from health campaigners and charities.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Is the huge rise in autism diagnoses really good news? We're not so sure | Letters

Concerns about overdiagnosis and medicalizing normal behavior in autism are valid and overlooked.
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