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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

VMAT2 inhibitors, approved in 2017, represent a significant advancement in the treatment of TD, offering evidence-based options for managing symptoms. Miller, MD Key Takeaways TD is often underreported and misdiagnosed, despite being a well-known adverse effect of antipsychotic medications, leading to inadequate treatment.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. Later, bipolar disorder took its place.

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

Calming It Down In 2017, I began seeing the new psychiatrist, Dr. B, and he followed the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for treating drug-induced movement disorders by prescribing a beta-blocker and then later, a centrally acting alpha agonist, or Alpha-1, also an antihypertensive. Dr. B ordered a sleep study. at a time.

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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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Sex and Psychiatry: The Sizzling, Steamy, Neglected Topic

Psychiatric Times

Albright, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and founder of Sweetgrass Psychiatry, highlighted the neglected nature of sexual health in psychiatry and the need for better education and open conversations. Additionally, she always warns patients that certain medications could potentially cause sexual health adverse effects.

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Rallying for Public and Immigrant Mental Health Amidst the Parading of Military Might

Psychiatric Times

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Mental health: it is time to do what is needed now or it will be more extensive and expensive later. The rally put together by some of us psychiatrists was unprecedented. I wore my own designed red T-shirt stating, “Make America Sane Again.”