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Through dissociation you protect yourself from the intense chaos that is going on in your body, from what is too much to deal with right now. We're checking out.

In the last ten years, the number of children up to 17 years old taking antidepressants has increased by 190 per cent. In its latest review, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child criticises Sweden for these levels and recommends the government to ensure that antidepressants are only prescribed to children when strictly medically justified.

Psychiatry's challenge is that the medical model generates more of the same, without missing results arousing particular curiosity. What we need is a present health service that is able to listen to what people say about their life challenges.

"It changed my life to learn about this whole world of human rights, of people with psychosocial disabilities, and then educate society that we exist - and that we have the right to live, to express ourselves as we are, not to be ashamed and to have a place in society."

“The acceptability, tolerability, and estimated effect sizes on key clinical outcomes are promising and encourage further investigation of probiotics as an add-on treatment for people with MDD in a definitive efficacy trial.”

"Mine is a story of revenge, of a life that seemed lost that through pain began to have a deeper meaning."

I concluded and was afraid that if someone in my new life found out what kind of years I had lived in hospitals and in a foggy unreality, it would all be over. The revelation of this thing could somehow take me back there.

According to the authors, 'Borderline Personality Disorder' emerged as a category during the heyday of psychoanalysis where it was used to denote situations that were on the line between anxiety disorder and psychosis. Despite classification as personality disorder, the authors argue that the characteristics of BPD do not match the consensus concept of other personality disorders. For example, the diagnostic criteria are not permanent personality traits but rather varying symptoms and ...

If we as adults look for answers outside ourselves, how can we teach the young to find answers within themselves? Trine Thielemann (pictured) learns that being able to discover and understand the meaning of the body's signals is a key to getting better in life

There is a term in psychiatry that is used when a treatment or therapy is considered unsuccessful and the patient does not feel better/behave differently. Let's take a closer look at the word therapy resistance.