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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms

University of Connecticut

Therefore, DSM 5 conditions such as ADHD, PTSD, Tourette’s, ASD, ODD, the Anxiety Disorders as well as Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, are never understood or treated through the lens of sensory integration. Yet all of the above disorders are, in large part, sensory-based disorders.

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms and How that Harms Our Clients

University of Connecticut

Therefore, DSM 5 conditions such as ADHD, PTSD, Tourette’s, ASD, ODD, the Anxiety Disorders as well as Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, are never understood or treated through the lens of sensory integration. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions?

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms and How that Harms All of Our Clients

University of Connecticut

Therefore, DSM 5 conditions such as ADHD, PTSD, Tourette’s, ASD, ODD, the Anxiety Disorders as well as Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, are never understood or treated through the lens of sensory integration. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions?

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptom and How that Harms All of Our Clients

University of Connecticut

Therefore, DSM-5 conditions such as ADHD, PTSD, Tourette’s, ASD, ODD, the Anxiety Disorders as well as Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, are never understood or treated through the lens of sensory integration. Imagine trying to treat a client with ASD or PTSD and not teaching the client about their sensory system reactions?

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks of a traumatic event are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). People experiencing a nervous breakdown may show symptoms that are similar to clinical depression.

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. He is the founder and CEO of Genesis Psychiatric Solutions, a mental health outpatient clinic with offices in Virginia and Washington D.C.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Schizophrenia? Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse. Clearly my husband wasn’t.