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The Connection Between ‘Bipolar Disorder’ and Migraine: Unraveling the History of a Family Line

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” His mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Looking back, I think my friends did the only thing that they thought could help — having an intervention and convincing me to voluntarily admit myself to the hospital. Pool also did an extensive review of my medical records and diagnosed me with bipolar disorder.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

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During a kismet connection with a neuroscientist colleague, he referred me to Open Dialogue in Finland. Two weeks later, both the NP and Matt’s counselor called me and said they must drop Matt as a patient, recommending an outpatient hospital detox program and a “higher level of care.” How did the state hospital treat Matt?

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

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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. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

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After a tumultuous episode of a hasty suicide attempt, I was promptly referred to a clinical psychology professor at a university in my hometown, who happened to be the senior alumnus of my former therapist. Back then, during my hospitalization at the eating disorder clinic, borderline personality disorder was one of those common diagnoses.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony

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His mother has remained Tony’s main caregiver while she has watched him decline over the years from the continuous drugs prescribed for diagnoses that also include schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, mood disorder, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder.

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Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology

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The term Platonic Love refers to spiritual love between two people without there being any sexual activity. He was confined to a mental hospital in Jena and then nursed at home by his mother and sister until his death. Any psychiatrist today would say that this divine contemplation is a form of schizophrenic hallucination.