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World Bipolar Day 2025: Breaking the Stigma

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder. By spreading awareness, we can foster a more inclusive society where mental health is treated with the same importance as physical health. How to Get Involved in World Bipolar Day 2025 1.

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WPA President launches 2023-2026 Action Plan

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Another area of the Action Plan strives to boost the mental health of patients, psychiatric staff, and the general public through the establishment of a Healthy Lifestyles Hub, which will serve as a nexus for promoting mental well-being through healthy lifestyle choices. Author: WPA

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

I realized that I was mistaken about a lot of my assumptions about what we know about mental health. We know much less about the brain than a lot of people in the mental health advocacy space realize. I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that.

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Women’s Mental Health Care: A Historical Perspective & Progress

Lightwork

The pathologization of female behavior became a means of social control, discouraging women from seeking education, pursuing careers, or asserting their independence. These services create safe spaces for women to address their mental health needs while connecting with others who share similar experiences.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

You see this in modern medical education: Gross anatomy where students dissect cadaversis placed at the very beginning of medical school. I was already studying these historical patterns, but I became interested in how they play out today , specifically in medical education. Because it serves as a socialization process.