History Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Please join us on Feb. 19 for the next Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry. We will be joined by Dagmar… Read more Feb. 19, Richardson Seminar: Dagmar Herzog, Ph.D.

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The Mental Elf

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Magda Skowronska summarises a recent systematic review which finds that cumulative trauma could lead to earlier onset of bipolar disorder. A review that has important implications for mental health professionals. The post Uncharted territory: cumulative trauma and bipolar disorder appeared first on National Elf Service.

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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. After all, Hough recognized what her sisters doctors never could: that Valeries sporadic psychotic and depressive episodes werent medical symptoms but the natural results of growing up in a household where their father struggled with alcohol addiction.

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