Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Attempts to Break Free I refer to this mood and mania tracking system as “The Grid.” Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa. After 2016, my need for hospitalization declined.

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Mad in America

APRIL 13, 2024

Lata was later referred to the women’s shelter run by the organization. However, the doctor also did not hesitate to change the provisional diagnosis of “schizoaffective disorder” provided by the psychologist to “bipolar disorder” without any symptom presentation for “bipolar disorder.”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies T he two sane authors of the first chapter of the 1065-page textbook noted that naturalistic studies—which they did not reference but mentioned by name, CATIE, STAR*D, and Storebø 2016—have shown smaller effects than those the drug companies have advertised.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The clinician might regard some treatment options as ill-suited to that particular patient: ketamine, for example, in a patient with bipolar disorder (because research has only just recently been expanded to include bipolar depression). In other words, the decision-making begins with the provider, not the patient.

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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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Sane Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Every day, more than one million Australians live with a psychosocial disability - a term that refers to the impact of a complex mental health condition on a persons capacity to function in daily life. Psychosocial disability refers to the functional challenges that people experience due to a complex mental health condition.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Secondary Insomnia 5 , 6 Secondary insomnia refers to difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep due to an underlying cause , such as a medical condition, mental health disorder, medications, or substance use. Although insomnia can be a symptom of an independent disorder, it is most frequently observed as a comorbid condition.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

It’s a prominent concept in both Judaism and Christianity, where it refers to the idea that humans must atone for their sins against God. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

It is important to consider other disorders which may be present and can have similar or overlapping symptoms, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder), and anxiety disorders.

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Bullet Psych

JANUARY 21, 2024

methamphetamine, ecstasy), depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, etc.). These individuals are commonly referred to as night owls. Also associated with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and illness anxiety disorder.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Theo dealt with bouts of bipolar disorder and deep-seated shame from his years of addiction. I couldnt set up a life anywhere like I have here, he shares, referring to his supportive community, his affordable apartment in Santa Barbara, and the structured programs at Sanctuary Centers that have been instrumental in his recovery.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It took time for the drugs to do their worst, and it took time for me to accept that recovery would be an ongoing process (the “infinite game” my husband referred to in his last article ), one that would inform the rest of my life. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.”

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Solara Mental Health

JULY 27, 2023

This article will discuss some causes of the disorder, diagnoses, and treatment. For more information regarding the three types of ADHD, and the primary symptoms of each one, please refer to the previous article in this series. Causes of ADHD The exact cause of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is not yet known.

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

These children may suffer from serious psychiatric problems such as depression, psychosis, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and bipolar disorder. Children with developmental delays and/or autism spectrum disorder as well as children who have been abused or abandoned may also show these behaviors.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. References Deloitte Insights. Breaking the Hypnotic Spell Hypnotic spells break if something happens that doesn’t fit the script.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The term Platonic Love refers to spiritual love between two people without there being any sexual activity. Freud could have referred to his case study of the judge Daniel Paul Schreber to make parallels with Nietzsches illness, since they were both cases of schizophrenia resulting from homosexual repression.

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Solara Mental Health

JUNE 10, 2022

Veterans with a dual diagnosis of SUDs and PTSD have a greater risk of having additional co-occurring disorders. These disorders can be both medical and psychiatric. This is the case for veterans with co-occurring disorders as well. Drug or alcohol use was involved in around 30% of suicides in the Army.

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My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You can now chat with one of our providers online for a variety of different conditions, including: Depression Anxiety disorders ADHD & Substance abuse Addiction Alcohol abuse Insomnia Dementia or memory loss Bipolar disorder Our providers serve patients from teenage years to geriatric and older adults. Kaehny, M.

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The Anxiety Guy

AUGUST 5, 2024

Episode Overview on Going Beyond Subconscious Anxiety and the Frantic Self: In this transformative episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast , host Dennis Simsek delves deep into the journey of transcending the frantic selfa concept that refers to the part of us that is driven by anxiety and the subconscious mind’s relentless orders.

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Bullet Psych

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This test is valuable for individuals suspected of conversion disorder without typical cataplexy or when treatment has failed. Treatment Lifestyle adjustments : practicing good sleep hygiene (refer to day #154 ), taking scheduled daytime naps , and avoiding shift work. These will be covered on day #158.

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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. But my son was essentially unmeasurable.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. References U.S. Parents of volatile teenagers used to say This is hard, but Ill be patient, since I know its a phase they must go through in order to develop into competent, independent adults.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as Norman and Lorna rather than father and mother. Siem: Often, the extent to which someone can go low correlates to how high they can go, like with mania in bipolar disorder. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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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. Like a lot of big bureaucracies, [HSE] enables control of the population, says MacGabhann, referring here to the Health Service Executive, Irelands public healthcare system.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as “Norman” and “Lorna” rather than “father” and “mother.” Siem: Often, the extent to which someone can go low correlates to how high they can go, like with mania in bipolar disorder. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Secondary insomnia refers to difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep due to an underlying cause, such as a medical condition, mental health disorder, medications, or substance use. In contrast, primary insomnia refers to sleep disturbances that are not directly attributable to any underlying health condition.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

I am referring to the idea, first popularized by Sigmund Freud, that a frequent cause of schizophrenia is the repression of homosexuality. By homosexual repression I refer to the conscious or unconscious choice of a homosexual not to engage in homosexual relations. This, I believe, goes a little too far. To me the answer is obvious.

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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. They are essential for managing mental health conditions like bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

659 They referred to drug-induced dopamine supersensitivity as a likely reason for this difference in outcomes. As Whitaker noted, the research literature shows that psychosis pills and depression pills increase the chronicity of the disorders, and the same is true for stimulants, benzodiazepines, and drugs used for bipolar disorder.

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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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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rates refer to the number of people killed per 100,000 inhabitants in the year 2022. They refer to rates among l00,0000 inhabitants. The omnipresence of firearms explains both the high rate of homicides and the fact that America has the worlds highest suicide rate. Here are the incarceration rates for the seven countries.

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