Paranoid Personality Traits Should Capture Our Attention
To rise to the level of psychiatric concern, symptoms must be out of proportion to any evidence; e.g., a grandfather suspects his 33-year-old grandson Eric asking questions about family generations.
"In 2022, prolonged grief disorder was added to a text revision of the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... Too much grief had become an official diagnosis."
When We Experience Cravings, We Grab What's In Reach
Addiction to certain substances can result in detrimental consequences that contribute to substance use disorder, which is classified using 11 criteria in the DSM-5.