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

Mad in America

I realized that I was mistaken about a lot of my assumptions about what we know about mental health. We know much less about the brain than a lot of people in the mental health advocacy space realize. I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that.

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Women’s Mental Health Care: A Historical Perspective & Progress

Lightwork

The pathologization of female behavior became a means of social control, discouraging women from seeking education, pursuing careers, or asserting their independence. Research shows that women often wait longer for accurate diagnoses of serious conditions like ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder compared to men presenting identical symptoms.