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Jun 19, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Liked by Arjun Gupta

I still think from the last newsletter about MPD being a cultural phenomenon and how it can be real or not. Some disorders do be sus, I haven't read the DSM 5 but hv seen the index.

Amazing article as usual ✨️

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It is also mind-blowing to think is it not that the only reason we don't consider some disorders to be 'real' is because they were not voted favourably by a council. How much about psychology then is a result of consensus over evidence?

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As a psychology student and someone diagnosed with BPD, it was very informative and cleared my confusion. I never understood the meaning of psychotic in this context before. Amazing article :)

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Something that I often thought about too, that the council has power to decide what is a disorder or not. Recently was reading about developmental trauma and how it was denied a place in DSM despite effort of Bessel and Co from the book and made me question few things and criteria for diagnosis.

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