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Don’t be so rigid in your thinking

Smitha Murthy, MD
Physician
October 30, 2017

“She doesn’t look like a person with an addiction problem to me,” replied the physician to the psychiatrist, referring to a patient who was admitted to the hospital for confusion. She was found at home amidst an array of bottles containing various controlled substances, and a toxicology screen positive for cannabis. She was in a higher socioeconomic bracket having retired from a professional job. The psychiatrist explained that addiction crosses …

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Don’t be so rigid in your thinking

“That’s crazy”: Stop using psychiatric words as insults

Smitha Murthy, MD
Conditions and Diseases
August 29, 2017

Words matter. At some point, we all may have casually tossed a psychiatric adjective to describe a situation or person. There is usually no malicious intent behind the use of these colloquialisms. However, during these strange and unprecedented political times, psychiatric terms seem to be thrown around more so by those trying to paint a picture of current prominent figures. A late-night show host referred to someone as “being off …

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“That’s crazy”: Stop using psychiatric words as insults

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