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Article of the Week: Week Seven

17 Feb2010

The madosphere is still jumping with news and views on the first published draft of the DSM-5, about which I wrote briefly last week. Mental Nurse comment on the implications of new and modified paediatric diagnoses, including the interesting medicalisation of temper tantrums (Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria, apparently); Psych Central review the good, bad [...]

Article of the Week: Week Six

Article of the Week 19 Responses »

10 Feb2010

I couldn’t possibly write this week’s AotW without mention of the first public consultation on the DSM-V, which was unveiled today. The American Psychiatric Association has put its proposals on existing and new mental disorders up at www.dsm5.org, for the delectation of professionals and the public at large. Comments are invited. I’ve had a rudimentary [...]

About the Author

WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SOME DISTURBING, POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING, MATERIAL AND VERY STRONG LANGUAGE.

Pandora

Your humble narrator is a female in her late 20s from Northern Ireland, attempting to find her way through the labyrinth that is NHS mental health services. Her diagnoses are a convoluted mishmash of:

borderline personality disorder
complex post-traumatic stress disorder
bipolar II disorder
major clinical depression
social anxiety and
transient psychosis and dissociation.

Through intense psychotherapy, she is attempting to recover from child sex abuse, as well as issues of abandonment, betrayal and self-harm.

Much more information can be found on the 'About' page. See below for the archives if you want the full context and detailed story since May 2009.

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I'm in the Republic for Iron Maiden gig, woo. Already intermittent contact may be even more so as I search for wifi. Have a good weekend x
@anniebananie76 @excludeduk @hopefortrauma Thanks for #ff lovelies :) <3 x
@theblacklily @iamechad @hovellinghermit @excludeduk @hidi @zebrapolkadots @crazy333girl @ophelia83 @goddess221167 Meant a lot :) Thanks x
@theblacklily @iamechad @hovellinghermit @excludeduk @hidi @zebrapolkadots @crazy333girl @ophelia83 @goddess221167 Thks for support&tweets x
RT @BeyondMeds: RT @hyblis I have always found the rampant promotion of CBT to be a kind of cynical marketing exercise...
Just had the fun of sitting through what was inevitably going to be a difficult session whilst in the throes of an IBS attack. FML.