By Sadie Whitelocks PUBLISHED: 16:45 EST, 21 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:04 EST, 21 October 2013 Women who suffer from consistently severe mood swings during their menstrual periods are now being diagnosed with mental illness. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), … Read More ›
DSM-5
Let’s Fight Big Pharma’s Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness
Editor’s Note: The controversial fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-5 (a.k.a. the manual formerly known as “DSM-V”) is being released tomorrow – after a 14-year revision process to update its criteria for defining mental disorders. This… Read More ›
Study finds faults in proposed mental disorder diagnosis: ” attenuated psychosis syndrome (APS), a new diagnosis that would identify those impaired by preliminary psychotic symptoms that do not meet the threshold for an existing diagnosis as having a psychotic disorder”
Contact: Holly Brown-Ayers hbrownayers@butler.org 401-455-6501 Women & Infants Hospital Providence, RI – A much anticipated addition to the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fifth edition (DSM-5) is questionable according to research findings. The newly revised DSM-5, the… Read More ›
In the Age of Anxiety, are we all mentally ill?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Cynthia Craig was diagnosed with postpartum depression eight years ago, she told her family doctor she felt anxious about motherhood. She wondered whether she had made a catastrophic mistake by quitting her job, whether she… Read More ›