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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Shortly after the article was published, and the break-up occurred, I was hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar. From 2001 to 2008, I was hospitalized for mania at a rate of almost once per year (7 times in 8 years)—including one month-long hospitalization.

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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

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The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us

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I t is impossible to make it on your own within the current mental health system in the UK if you suffer from serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, chronic depression or bipolar disorder. It used to be so different when I first arrived in 2008. By making it I mean to live. Live life with some decency and hope.

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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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Moncrieff, 2008 ; Moncrieff, 2018 ). But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. Ghaemi thinks glutamate is the culprit in schizophrenia, however, which is unaffected by antipsychotics ( Ghaemi, 2022 ).

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

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There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning.

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

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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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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). The full list had to be put on the website.