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I was diagnosed with Bipolar II at age 12 and attempted suicide at age 13. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolardisorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore.
This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolardisorder. Fuller Torrey. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.”
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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working. When I look at the numbers—the number of suicides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data—it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better.”
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