Mad in America
DECEMBER 29, 2023
I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolar disorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore. I was told that only temporary, minor memory loss was possible, in rare cases, before starting ECT in 2013. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything.
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 6, 2025
2013:381(9863): 343-5. He is now editing the final book in a 4-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now The Eastern Religions, and Spirituality. He serves on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Times. Reference 1. Steven Moffic, MD June 3rd 2025 Whither Psychiatry?
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Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Whereas from 2001 to 2008 I was hospitalized at a rate of almost once per year, from 2008 to 2013, I was hospitalized only once every three years. I was hospitalized in 2013 in the context of my separation and divorce. I was also hospitalized in 2016.
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
MARCH 7, 2024
This initiative was born out of a council meeting of the Asian Network of Bipolar Disorder (ANBD) in 2013, at which Prof. Pichet Udomratn proposed a date to bring worldwide attention to bipolar disorder. To register your activities and share event details, please visit: [link]. Together, we can make a difference.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
This initiative had been established in 2013 to enable researchers to reanalyze data sets from publicly funded trials, particularly when there was reason to think that the initial results may have been incorrectly reported. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.
Mad in America
JULY 13, 2024
The main evidence cited to support this belief came from a meta-analysis published in 2013, which had excluded a large proportion of trials due to the fact that no suicides had occurred in them ( Cipriani et al, 2013 ). If lithium does prevent suicide, a preventive effect on suicide attempts should be seen, too, and it is not.
Mad in America
MAY 3, 2025
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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