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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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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

Mad in America

This includes treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the depressive phases of bipolar disorder, despite the fact that SSRIs can sometimes trigger manic episodes. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

However, we do provide information about ECT. The information is that it does cause cognitive deficits long-term in a high percentage of people. What Mad in America can do is keep on promoting and publishing this information. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.