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A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolardisorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.
The idea comes from 20+ years of experience working with people with complex mood disorders. Can we identify them before they start an antidepressant? With so much debate and discussion about “how many” (including the previous two essays in this series), it’s surprising that so little has been written about “why some and not others?”
A nutrition geek and nature fanatic who loved learning about the healing power of food, I could not wrap my mind around how I needed prescriptions to balance my brain. This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Both were eventually diagnosed with bipolardisorder.
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In my last piece , I wrote about various neuro-rehab therapies I engaged in with Dr. J, the functional brain injury specialist, and that there came a point when my husband and I knew we’d reached the end of what medical science could offer me. I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind.
It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. Psychosis can occur as a result of various underlying conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolardisorder, and severe depression. Hallucinations can cause an individual to see, hear, or feel things that are not present in reality.
W hen I had my first schizophrenic hallucination 61 years ago, I told myself that I was in the privileged position of having the terrifying knowledge of what such a hallucination actually is. I had seen the Light and it was divine. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision.
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
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The purpose of the present article is to see how this theory, that homosexual repression is a frequent etiology of schizophrenia, has survived the test of time. The purpose of the present article is to see how this theory, that homosexual repression is a frequent etiology of schizophrenia, has survived the test of time.
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