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Anxious about the prospect of emerging from the cocoon of blankets youâve been hiding under for the last year? You might have a bad case of âFOGOâ â fear of going out.
The term has been used on social media to describe anxiousness around the eventual reopening of society and re-entry into our working and personal lives. While experts like Steven Taylor, a professor and clinical psychologist at the University of B.C., will tell you the term FOGO wonât be found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the feelings behind it may be connected to disorders that can.
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Before I begin, I want to clarify that this is not an article telling you to forgive all of the addicts in your life, nor is it a step-by-step guide to curing addiction. I am writing this article to challenge some stigmas surrounding addiction. When we think of addiction, our minds automatically go to drugs and alcohol. We think of the school advertisements about addiction that beg us to not take drugs or will become “addicts” and “ruin our lives.” Although addiction can potentially affect our lives in catastrophic ways, it’s important to remember two things: The first is that addiction is a disease, and many people do not have a choice nor the resources to recover from it. The second is that substance addiction is not the only form of addiction; there are many forms of behavioral addiction that often go overlooked due to the negative stigma surrounding addiction in general.
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The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Second Edition (PDM-2) stresses the importance of the integration between a descriptive and functional understanding of clinical phenomena in order to enhance a person-based nosology. The present article aims to discuss a clinical case of a patient suffering from generalized anxiety disorder, currently considered a controversial diagnosis, in order to illustrate some of the complexities and advantages of the PDM-2 model in the psychodiagnostic description, case formulation, and treatment planning. To do so, we applied the Psychodiagnostic Chart Second Edition (PDC-2) to an Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) transcript, and, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that pursued this goal. As a clinical-research method, the AAI represents a useful tool in order to explore patients’ mental states and internalized object relations, crucial aspects in personality organization. Furthermore, the Structured Clinical Interview for Dia