Are you mentally ill, or just very unhappy?
As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are you experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?
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As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are you experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?
POPPY’S smile wit and frequent and funny use of expletives was something that her friends loved about her. A close friend said: “Poppy was beautiful inside and out and she often advocated for others in need.” Despite that, it took a long time for Poppy to trust people, but one day she felt she needed to talk and even though she still wasn’t sure about her mental health team, she decided to sit down with her mental health social worker and a psychiatric nurse. Over the next hour she disclosed that as a young child she had been abused and described in violent and graphic detail what she...