Mad in America
JULY 13, 2024
Moncrieff, 2008 ; Moncrieff, 2018 ). But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. Ghaemi thinks glutamate is the culprit in schizophrenia, however, which is unaffected by antipsychotics ( Ghaemi, 2022 ).
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. Thankfully, the owner of the office, a renowned bipolar expert, said he could take Matt. It was just so sad.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 20, 2024
Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In research circles, he’s known as the founder and executive director of the controversial Stanley Medical Research Institute, which has spent more than $550 million on biological research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the past few decades.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 20, 2023
‘I have nightmares I’m being restrained,’ said Laidler, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. General psychiatric inpatients were restrained at a rate 10 times higher than at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, according to The Times’ analysis of data from 2018 to 2021, the most recent year available.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The creation of the guidelines began in 2018, when the Dutch research collective ‘Druk & Dwars’ (Wild and Willful) initiated a taskforce for their development. This is, to our knowledge, the first set of guidelines on information about any of the disorders defined by the DSM.
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa. However, my paranoid thoughts began to subside shortly after I left my job in early 2018. After 2016, my need for hospitalization declined.
Mad in America
JULY 6, 2024
To clarify this concept better, “psychosis”, “depression”, “anxiety”, “bipolar disorder”, “ADHD” and more are not disorders of organic or genetic origin, caused by “imbalances” in brain chemicals, and psychotropic drugs do not have the function of restoring any balance.
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