The Critical Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These medicines have been around for over 5 decades with evidence showing that they help to lessen and improve the severity of psychiatric symptoms in people suffering with a mental illness. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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). Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

MARCH 31, 2017

Would it speed your recovery, or slow it down? Although originally expected to reduce social stigma and blame, many biological messages about psychiatric disorders like depression have had the opposite effect (Haslam & Kvaale, 2015; Lebowitz, 2014). Biol Psychiatry , 68 (4), 314–319. Am J Psychiatry , 167 (11), 1305–1320.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

AUGUST 15, 2017

The stigma experienced because of one’s mental illness can in turn exacerbate psychological symptoms and deter treatment-use and recovery, thus further compromising an individual’s mental health (e.g., Psychiatric Services, 62 , 824-826. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 177 , 4-7. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62 , 593-602.

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