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Exploring the Connection Between Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

Exploring the Connection Between Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders As a parent, caregiver, or even a concerned family member, have you ever wondered whether the mood swings you witness in your loved one could be more than just emotional highs and lows? However, it’s not just about mood swings.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

I dont prescribe medications, but I offer evidence-based and highly effective methods to help people find freedom from anxiety and OCD. I dont prescribe medications, but I offer evidence-based and highly effective methods to help people find freedom from anxiety and OCD. Please click here for our Find A Psychiatrist search tool.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

I dont prescribe medications, but I offer evidence-based and highly effective methods to help people find freedom from anxiety and OCD. I dont prescribe medications, but I offer evidence-based and highly effective methods to help people find freedom from anxiety and OCD. Please click here for our Find A Psychiatrist search tool.

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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Mad in America

It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

Mad in America

By late November, 2018, Matt found a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with Bipolar 1 disorder after one visit, prescribed Latuda, tapered him off Prozac, and practically sentenced him to be medicated for life with an overall “fair” prognosis. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.

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

Mad in America

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.