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Gerald Maguire, MD, Provides Tips for Differentiating Bipolar Depression From MDD

Psychiatric Times

Similarly, because patients with bipolar disorder often self-medicate, looking for a family history of substance abuse can be helpful. “iI's October 22, 2023. Family histories can also support the differential diagnosis , he said. For instance, if there is a family history of suicides, that may be a clue, he explained.

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Key Issues in Postpartum Psychiatry at Southern California Conference

Psychiatric Times

Our world is so instant, and [it is important] to be able to take this time to be with self, be with baby, and just to take that time to enjoy this incredible experience of creating life.” December 4, 2023. August 4, 2023. Additional conference coverage can be found at PsychiatricTimes.com. References 1. Psychiatric Times.

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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

In psychiatry, the DSM has provided a general definition of mental disorders since its third edition, guiding classification and diagnosis. Owls, larks, swifts, woodcocks and they are not alone: a historical review of methodology for multidimensional self-assessment of individual differences in sleep-wake pattern. Chronobiol Int.

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Walking the Line: Navigating Student Mistreatment by Patients

Psychiatric Times

Effective communication strategies, such as using "I" statements and fostering patient self-reflection, can help address microaggressions without escalating tensions. 4 This step fosters self-reflection in the patient, which is often adequate for an introspective patient to understand their error.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The re-framing of diagnosis as identity in some parts of the neurodiversity movement leads to an insistence on identity-first language—an ‘autistic person’ rather than ‘a person with autism.’

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

Mad in America

O n 3 August 2023, I wrote to the editors of two medical journals and called for retraction of three fraudulent reports of placebo-controlled trials of depression drugs in children and adolescents. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. 10 Keller et al. Keller et al. This is fraud.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Almost all of the disorders that I had been diagnosed with were in complete remission. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.