World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MARCH 7, 2024

This initiative was born out of a council meeting of the Asian Network of Bipolar Disorder (ANBD) in 2013, at which Prof. Pichet Udomratn proposed a date to bring worldwide attention to bipolar disorder. To register your activities and share event details, please visit: [link]. Together, we can make a difference.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, the “availability” shortcut: if an example of a particular event comes quickly to mind, we think the event is common; whereas if an example is hard to find in memory, we think the event is rare. This obviously leads to errors when the event is striking and dramatic (e.g. treatment-resistant tuberculosis).

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Every day, during the time segments of morning, afternoon, and evening, I would capture the issues and events that were adding to, or subtracting from, my mood and mania scores. It is instead: “How can we control ourselves, such that captivity is no longer necessary?”

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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.

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

To clarify this concept better, “psychosis”, “depression”, “anxiety”, “bipolar disorder”, “ADHD” and more are not disorders of organic or genetic origin, caused by “imbalances” in brain chemicals, and psychotropic drugs do not have the function of restoring any balance.

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

per cent of the population have schizoaffective disorder: its a lot less common than either major depression or bipolar disorder. Individuals with schizophrenia may have an increased risk for first-degree relatives for schizoaffective disorder, and vice-versa. How is it Diagnosed?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased. One reason for this was that SSRIs were found to increase the risk that a person with unipolar depression would suffer a manic episode and be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis with a much less favorable prognosis.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

fibromyalgia, arthritis, cancer), asthma or other respiratory issues like COPD, heart disease (angina, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea), GERD, hyperthyroidism, prostate disease, urinary frequency/urgency, neurodegenerative disorders, pregnancy, menopause, restless leg syndrome. Examples include: Stressful life events (e.g.,

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Drug-induced adverse events are key to spell-binding or spell-breaking in this case. If you buy the idea your suicidality on an SSRI is evidence of a bipolar disorder, or your loss of libido, darling, is your depression, you and your doctor become more spell-bound. Standing your ground, though, breaks the spell you are under.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Dhar: Eventually you found the trauma model that talked about extreme childhood stress events, and it explained a lot of your suffering. There wasn’t much space for another way of seeing the problem of obsessions and compulsions. Tell us about what you found helpful about this view that your OCD was partly caused by early childhood stress.

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Solara Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Traumatic events, like a violent assault or military combat, can overwhelm a person’s positive coping skills. Because the symptoms of TBI can appear like other mental health conditions like bipolar disorder or dementia, individuals need to obtain a thorough assessment from a trained professional.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

At any one time, I would say about a third of my practice is comprised of lawyers or law students, of which a large majority suffer from depression or some related mood disorder such as persistent depressive disorder or bipolar disorder. Can you tell us what kind of issues concerning depression lawyers come to you for?

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray).

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The study focused on patients with a bipolar disorder diagnosis in Hong Kong. All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events. In 2021, a study on veterans was terminated early because the drug didnt improve suicide-related events compared with a placebo. Correll, C.

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Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

It is a key feature of bipolar disorder symptoms and can significantly impact a persons ability to function. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition that requires a combination of medication, cognitive behavioral therapy, and lifestyle changes for effective treatment. Stay calm and avoid escalating stressful events.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder. which questioned the rising cases of young children diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The civil case was settled in January of 2011 for $2.5

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Mad in America

JUNE 7, 2024

My conversation with Dr. K, quoted above, opens the first poem in my new collection, The Bearable Slant of Light , which documents my son’s struggles and diagnosis of bipolar disorder, as well as the contours of our anxious culture. The only way to tell it, for me, is poetry.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

Here are three possible ways: 1) Its normal to feel emotional pain in response to life events. But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. And our rise in suicides cant be due to guns, since theyve long been prevalent here.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. I knew she didn’t have a brain disease.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

For individuals with ASD the awareness of the physical and concrete details in a life event is available but the existents of mental states from others or one self may be blind spots, which often cause an interpersonal deficit, confusion and relational stress. 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A. Bateman, 2012).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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