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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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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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Loneliness and psychosis in clinical practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

For people with psychotic disorders the situation is much worse. In fact, the annual rate of loneliness in people with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders appears to be around 2.3 Laura Adery is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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just published

Clinical Philosophy

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

We refer to certain conditions as ‘acute’ or ‘severe’ which might refer to their symptom length or intensity rather than the personal experience or hidden life-threatening repercussions of the behaviours associated with the condition, such as the physical effects of eating disorders. I have anxiety disorder , that has been diagnosed.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

We refer to certain conditions as ‘acute’ or ‘severe’ which might refer to their symptom length or intensity rather than the personal experience or hidden life-threatening repercussions of the behaviours associated with the condition, such as the physical effects of eating disorders. I have anxiety disorder , that has been diagnosed.

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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. Another major breakthrough for young people’s mental health came thanks to MQ researcher Colette Hirsch.