Les Tor-Johan Ekelands innlegg i debatten om "hjernesykdommer". The post Psykiatriforeningen skremmer pasienter og pårørende uten faglig grunnlag – får korreks av psykologi-professorer appeared first on Mad in Norway.

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.

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.

De uithuisplaatsing van Miranda’s kinderen is niet los te zien van haar familiegeschiedenis. In deze blog vertelt ze openhartig wat bevriezen met een ouder doet, welke inzichten haar achteraf hielpen en waarom ouders gelijkwaardige, passende steun verdienen. Een persoonlijk verhaal over levend verlies, stilte doorbreken en leren dragen wat is gebeurd. Haar levend verlies begon met lege kinderbedjes. The post Zo begon het levend verlies: lege kinderbedjes in huis appeared first on Mad in the [...]