Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder Blog 
Mad in America
MARCH 13, 2025
And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults.
Mad in America
APRIL 13, 2024
O n the footpath, in a group of homeless people, sits a middle-aged saree-clad woman in absolute silence, looking nowhere. She was brought in along with a salwar-kameez wearing middle-aged woman. When asked her age, Lata said that she was 3 years old. and then recorded her age as 40 years.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2024
A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To
Now Psych
MAY 14, 2024
Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects an individual’s perception of reality. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. Psychosis can occur as a result of various underlying conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression.
Mad in America
JANUARY 11, 2024
Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. It appears that what is often left out in care for patients in the mental health system is the care for the entire family unit.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.
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