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World Bipolar Day 2025: Breaking the Stigma

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Every year on March 30th, we observe World Bipolar Day, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness, challenging stigma, and promoting understanding about bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

Mad in America printed an article on an earlier study on how many academic textbooks leave readers in the dark about the fact that genetic differences can hardly explain any of the ADHD behaviors. This is, to our knowledge, the first set of guidelines on information about any of the disorders defined by the DSM. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

Mad in America

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.

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The Challenge of Presenting Antidepressant Risks and Benefits

Mad in America

The clinician might regard some treatment options as ill-suited to that particular patient: ketamine, for example, in a patient with bipolar disorder (because research has only just recently been expanded to include bipolar depression). One of the reasons: creating informative Patient Decision Aids (PDAs) is difficult.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. But the authors on the authorship line of any article reporting the results will be American, none of whom will have seen the effects of the company drug on either the far-flung, or even American, patients.

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that. You write that there is a huge gap between this expert reaction to the article and that of the actual public. At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. Dhar: That sounds terrifying and painful. Please speak about that.

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind. Recalling the river metaphor from my last article, I leaned back and pointed my feet downstream. As my husband pointed out in his previous article, trust goes both ways. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.”