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you've been framed

Clinical Philosophy

Psychiatry's social scientific critics, for example, typically suggest we should apprehend their object using concepts such as "suffering", "problems in living", "experience", "belief". One way past this problem is to draw a distinction between conceptualisation and framing. One way to do this - and I can't think of any other! -

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Colette’s work to develop an evidence-based intervention to lower levels of worry and anxiety will inform the development of psychological interventions for stress-related mental health in young people. The ADP continues to improve prevention, detection and early intervention for depression in young people.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Colette’s work to develop an evidence-based intervention to lower levels of worry and anxiety will inform the development of psychological interventions for stress-related mental health in young people. The ADP continues to improve prevention, detection and early intervention for depression in young people.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Just because depression or anxiety disorder are more common doesn’t mean the pain and suffering caused to the individual by their condition means less or matters less. I have anxiety disorder , that has been diagnosed. I experience anxiety attacks and panic attacks. Pain is pain. They’re based on a collection of symptoms.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Just because depression or anxiety disorder are more common doesn’t mean the pain and suffering caused to the individual by their condition means less or matters less. I have anxiety disorder , that has been diagnosed. I experience anxiety attacks and panic attacks. Pain is pain. They’re based on a collection of symptoms.

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Social psychological research has demonstrated that contact can increase knowledge about and empathy toward stigmatized individuals, as well as reduce the inter-group anxiety that leads to avoidance of members of stigmatized groups (see Pettigrew & Tropp, 2011). The British Journal of Psychiatry, 177 , 4-7. Gelder, M. Meltzer, H.