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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

While some degree of worry is normal for new parents, postpartum anxiety is characterized by persistent, excessive worry, intrusive thoughts, and physical symptoms such as restlessness, sleep disturbance that interfere with daily functioning and maternal well-being. The clinical presentation of postpartum anxiety is diverse.

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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. Shortly after the article was published, and the break-up occurred, I was hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar.

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The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us

Mad in America

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. Its more than a broken mental health system there, its hell. Being mentally unwell has become a crime.

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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.