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Beyond Pharmacare

Mad in America

Following doctor’s orders, I had obediently swallowed Seroquel (quetiapine) that night, a so-called ‘antipsychotic’ medication used to treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and, off-label, dementia, autism, eating disorders, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. I selected one whose website exuded a sense of bureaucracy.

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A Felt Sense of Safety – From Disassociation to Embodiment

Mad in America

This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Both were eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes. My other sister eventually became pregnant out of wedlock in college. Both got on medication.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Mostly sees patients with a Mood Disorder: Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder. RecoverED, LLC is a specialty psychiatric practice for adult patients struggling with eating and body image concerns. I provide expert, evidence-based treatment for patients with all eating disorders, of all body shapes and sizes.

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DBT for Parents

Child Mind Intitute

DBT was first created to treat a condition called borderline personality disorder, but now its widely used to help kids with lots of issues that stem from having overwhelming and painful feelings anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and drug abuse, among other diagnoses.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.