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It’s easy to cling to my diagnosis for comfort. In fact, externalizing obsessions the way you would an alien invasion or a metastasized tumor is a foundational part of OCD’s gold standard of treatment. The post Don’t Let Barbie Out of the Glovebox – An OCD Account appeared first on Mad In America.

Le escribo desde el estado de Washington, USA. Leí tu artículo sobre Desmanicomialización. Apreció mucho sus palabras. Estoy muy impresionada con el artículo que escribiste. (Leer: Cultura, comunidad y salud mental) Aprecio su comprensión de los procesos de la Dra. Elvira, tanto del pasado como del presente y de los muchos resultados exitosos que ha […]

A psychiatric diagnosis is supposed to help people make sense of distress and guide individualised care. Yet psychiatry holds an extraordinary power: criticism of its own diagnostic constructs and treatments can be reinterpreted as evidence that the person criticising them is ill or “lacks insight”. It is a Catch-22: accept the interpretation and the diagnosis […] The post Psychiatry cannot learn while it pathologises diversity and dissent appeared first on Mad in Ireland.