Tag: Diagnosis
Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – Australia
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Becoming Whole: How a Change in Me Became a Change in...
It feels challenging to commit to a lifetime process of self-reflection and self-improvement when someone is offering you an easy way out.
An example of a broken system
I have managed to progress in my life despite being seen as ‘one of the most severe cases of borderline’ because I reached outside psychiatry for support to people who seen the whole of me and did not blame me for my distress. Surely this is example of a broken system that needs to change.
When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic
Of course I wish I had never endured the years of brainwashing and lies in that clinic. But I had the good fortune to get out. I don’t know how to help others being told their ‘eating disorder’ is a lifelong sentence that requires constant management. I have my voice, and I will use it