Stigmatization of psychiatric patients, particularly those with co-occurring substance use disorders, is a common reason for exclusion from both society and treatment within the Danish healthcare system. Healthcare professionals are generally aware of this problem and are often able to identify the consequences of societal stigmatization, such as prejudice, exclusion from treatment, judgmental questioning, and unwarranted assumptions. However, institutional logics, profession

One of the great privileges of the Nordic Psychiatric Association is the opportunity to look beyond our own national systems and observe developments across the Nordic and Baltic countries. While healthcare structures, funding models and political priorities differ, our annual discussions continue to reveal how many challenges we share.

During my upbringing in Gothenburg in the 1990s, the diagnosis Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception (DAMP) had just been introduced. DAMP can briefly be described as a narrower phenotype of ADHD, including motor symptoms or coordination difficulties roughly corresponding to Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Children ran around shouting "DAMP kid" at each other, and the term became a dominant insult in schoolyards, alongside derogatory terms related to