Dialectical Behaviour Therapy has been increasing in popularity over the last decade and is now recognized as a powerful treatment tool for mental illnesses such as borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder. But a new DBT trial shows the therapy may not be as helpful as previously thought, although it might also be more helpful […]
Artsy personality disorder has officially been added to the DSM. Clinical psychologist Dr. Dan Oldman is responsible for creating the diagnosis, and now runs a small private clinic to treat those afflicted. “After being a clinician for 13 years, I began to notice that some of my patients didn’t have a conventional mood or personality […]
Psychologists at Rice University have just published a paper detailing the results of their longitudinal study on female depression. Bullying, social isolation, and anxiety were all found to predict depressive thoughts and behaviours reasonably well, but as researchers hypothesized, the greatest risk factor for female depression was found to be zoodle consumption. “Over the last […]
Last week, there was a major outbreak of Jim Halpert disorder at Beaumont Highschool in Alberta. Clinical psychologists were called into the school to treat the problem, which has affected over 60% of the students. “Jim Halpert disorder is a debilitating mental illness, where the afflicted individual is constantly looking into nonexistent cameras and making […]