I recently reviewed the following article from the radical-political website called Counter Punch Politics and Psychiatry: the Cost of the Trauma Cover-Up. My reactions follow direct quotes from the article: “Far fewer on the Left recognize that the...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed with individuals who have been exposed to Traumatic events and who continue to have distressing anxiety-related symptoms for some time after the event itself. Q: What is a Traumatic event? A: The DSM-5 describes a...
“The addict is not born but made. His addiction is the result of a situation that he had no influence in creating” Dr. Gabor Mate In 1972 an 20-year-old girl named Chelsea found herself living on welfare, no supportive family or friends, and an ingrained sense...
What is Learned Helplessness?: Martin Seligman accidentally came upon the concept of learned helplessness. Initially he experimented on dogs, hearing the sound of a bell and receiving a shock. The research was intended to observe how a dog reacted after the sound of a...
