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Eyes, Ears, and Emotion: Techniques to Tackle Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder

Psychiatric Times

Emerging research on RNA biomarkers, AI applications, and genetic mutations shows promise for developing new diagnostic tools for bipolar disorder. Non-pharmacological approaches and combination therapies are emphasized in treatment, with recent FDA approvals for new medications targeting bipolar symptoms.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. I do know that I was also hospitalized in 2005, just as Hurricane Katrina was getting ready to make landfall.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.

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Integrating Redemption in Psychiatry, Part 3: A Nod to the Late Brian Wilson

Psychiatric Times

After his innovative and successful 1966 song, “Good Vibrations,” which came out right when my wife and I started dating, Wilson soon slipped into overeating, drug abuse, and what came to be a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Wilson died a little over a year after his second wife passed away.