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The Neuroscience of Borderline Personality Disorder
Being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be overwhelming. Not many people really understand what it means at first or why it can be perhaps an untreatable condition of irregular moods, difficulty with interpersonal relationships, and identity...
Creativity and Incident in Modern Medicine
So often, the humanities are positioned on the opposite side of the spectrum as medicine. The two are thought to be entirely separate disciplines, with creativity aligning with humanities and arts, and rationality and structure aligning with medicine. This is far from...
The Connection Between Mental Health and Gut Microbiota
In the past few years, there has been an increasing amount of research conducted on the gut microbiota, the grouping of microorganisms that live within the human and animal digestive tract, and the relationship that it has with mental health and psychology. Due to...
An Abridged History of the DSM
The DSM, also known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a text produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that offers criteria and classification for mental disorders. A considerable benefit of this text is that it also...
An Abridged History of PTSD Diagnosis and Understanding
PTSD, the acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a disorder that can develop in those who have experienced a traumatic event. Commonly, it is associated with veterans deployed in wars. However, it can affect any range of people, soldier or not, who have...
Deconstructing Stigmas Surrounding Schizophrenia
There are many stigmas surrounding mental illness, especially disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. A huge factor contributing to this stigma is the fact that the general population is relatively uninformed about the details surrounding these...
How We Can Change Our Vocabulary to Reduce Stigma Surrounding Mental Health
Recent Studies Suggest that Stress Disorders Link to Autoimmune Disease
JAMA Network recently conducted a study in late June of 2018 which concluded that people with stress-related psychiatric conditions are at higher risk for autoimmune disease. This study pulls from a Swedish database documenting 106,464 patients who had a severe...
What Are the First Signs of Bipolar Affective Disorder
Bipolar affective disorder is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed mental illnesses, as often symptoms can defy what is expected from the manic-depressive sequence. People with bipolar disorder, at the very barebones understanding of the disorder, have cycles of...