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Dallaire has been an advocate for increased awareness of the challenges facing combat veterans, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder??—a condition that led to Dallaire’s medical discharge from the military...
...after fifteen pounds)—these are all concerns we might be tempted to associate with female undergrads. Yet, while the female population is brimming with disturbed weight and body image concerns, these problems are spilling over the gender barrier; the incidence of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder??€”a pathology characterized by preoccupations with an imagined physical defect—is on the rise among the male populations in Western societies. Unfortunately, the general population remains all but oblivious to those men who suffer from disorders more readily linked with Mary-Kate than Bob Saget...
...company is one of several to capitalize on what is actually a serious psychological condition. Seasonal Affective Disorder??€”cleverly abbreviated SAD—entails more than just a dislike of the winter months...
...American Psychiatric Association has a different definition. By their standards, as published in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), SM is a disorder??€”or rather, two disorders: paraphilia 302.83 (sexual masochism) and paraphilia 302.84 (sexual sadism...
...avoid a self-negating hypocrisy. Transsexuality, transgender, and gender variance—though each denotes a distinct and specific identity—are often regarded as willful choices that could or ought be abandoned, or diagnosed as dangerous mental ailments to be treated with drugs or psychotherapy. Gender Identity Disorder??€”the diagnosis with which transsexual and transgendered children and adults are classified—remains a psychiatric condition listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; homosexuality, by contrast, was declassified as a mental illness...