MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

MARCH 17, 2025

This article explores the case of a woman with bipolar disorder who develops HG associated with severe anxiety and sleep disruption, and discusses various treatment options.

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Bipolar disorder 61

Psychiatric Times

MARCH 30, 2025

In honor of World Bipolar Day, our Mood Disorders Section Editor shares his favorite clinical pearls for treating bipolar disorder.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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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Mad in America

APRIL 2, 2025

This explosive growth in SSRI usage also helped pave the way for exponential growth in use of all psychotropic drugs as wellstimulants for ADHD and antipsychotics used to augment antidepressants, manage bipolar disorder, and address behavioral issues in children, adolescents, and nursing home residents.

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Psychiatry Online

MARCH 27, 2025

Psychiatric News, Volume 60, Issue 4 , April 1, 2025 April 30, 2025.

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Investigators evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If I lose you, here’s the bottom line: it seems possible that some or much of the vulnerability to antidepressant withdrawal is related to “bipolarity”. Not bipolar disorder, but rather a mostly genetic element underlying bipolar disorders. Circle C presents symptoms and markers of bipolar disorder.

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Psychiatric Times

MARCH 4, 2025

Pipeline drug BHV-7000 failed to meet primary endpoint in a pivotal phase 2/3 trial for bipolar disorder; meanwhile, BHV-1300 sees success in sustained Reductions in Total IgG.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) has compiled a list of resources for parents and caregivers of children with bipolar disorder and/or depression, including support groups, a parent & caregiver network, facts about these disorders, treatment options, and more.

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

MARCH 20, 2025

An international team has identified associations between modifications in the placenta and the risk of developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression disorder.

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Psychiatric Times

MARCH 7, 2025

Here are highlights from this week in Psychiatric Times, including updates on the BHV-7000 for bipolar disorder trial and a new study on physician suicide rates.

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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 struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Following doctor’s orders, I had obediently swallowed Seroquel (quetiapine) that night, a so-called ‘antipsychotic’ medication used to treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and, off-label, dementia, autism, eating disorders, insomnia, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body's natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression, according to new research. A new study marks a breakthrough in understanding what drives shifts between the two states.

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Psychiatry Online

MARCH 27, 2025

Psychiatric News, Volume 60, Issue 4 , April 1, 2025 April 30, 2025.

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Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2024

The drugs—commonly prescribed for depression and bipolar disorder—are often used at higher doses in psychiatry, bringing more risk. However, little research has focused on antiseizure drugs, though they are commonly prescribed, particularly for bipolar disorder. the researchers write.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 14, 2025

Every year on March 30th, we observe World Bipolar Day, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness, challenging stigma, and promoting understanding about bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

‘I have nightmares I’m being restrained,’ said Laidler, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. His ankles and wrists bore scars — the result, he said, of repeatedly being strapped to a bed with restraints at Los Angeles General Medical Center. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. But you can expect it to be turbulent, full of ups and downs like many people who identify with the mad movement.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This is, to our knowledge, the first set of guidelines on information about any of the disorders defined by the DSM.

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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.

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Sane Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

I thought I was just having a mid-life crisis while being medicated successfully for bipolar disorder? A predisposition for bipolar disorder definitely runs in my family. My maternal grandfather was hospitalised in the 1930s with depression. This is the first documented mental health episode in my family.

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Sane Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 19 while serving in the Australian Army, Megs plans for a 20-year career were cut short by her diagnosis, which led to a medical discharge. Meg, a proud Aboriginal woman from Exmouth, Western Australia, is a 53-year-old mother of three adult children and has been married for 31 years.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I am also a trauma survivor, an individual labeled with Bipolar Disorder, who struggled with suicidal ideation. I am a social gerontologist, a former Board member of the MHRB of Ashland County, and older adult. I experienced the good and the worst in terms of the mental health care I received.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa. It is instead: “How can we control ourselves, such that captivity is no longer necessary?” After 2016, my need for hospitalization declined.

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Mad in America

APRIL 13, 2024

However, the doctor also did not hesitate to change the provisional diagnosis of “schizoaffective disorder” provided by the psychologist to “bipolar disorder” without any symptom presentation for “bipolar disorder.”

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 17, 2025

Teens with schizophrenia are sometimes misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder because their unusual behavior during a psychotic episode can be confused with the mania that is part of bipolar disorder. How is schizophrenia different from bipolar disorder?

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NAMI

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Over the next 13 years, I cycled through different doctors and different diagnoses (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder II), none of which fully explained my struggles. I had never seen myself reflected in conversations about ADHD, and I dismissed the idea.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This includes treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the depressive phases of bipolar disorder, despite the fact that SSRIs can sometimes trigger manic episodes. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. Psychosis can occur as a result of various underlying conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression. The symptoms of psychosis can be distressing and disruptive to an individual’s daily life.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Service users were excluded from the present research if they had received a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or delusional disorder. The 900 participants were given a self-response survey about their antidepressant use over the past 12 months.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Back then, during my hospitalization at the eating disorder clinic, borderline personality disorder was one of those common diagnoses. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. And if we accept the point of view that all of us are lovable, can we heal everything?

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My Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Bipolar Disorder and Marijuana For individuals with bipolar disorder , marijuana presents specific risks. Research suggests heavy or near-daily marijuana use in people with bipolar disorder can worsen manic symptoms and increase the duration of manic episodes.

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

per cent of the population have schizoaffective disorder: its a lot less common than either major depression or bipolar disorder. Individuals with schizophrenia may have an increased risk for first-degree relatives for schizoaffective disorder, and vice-versa.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I roomed with a Portuguese woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. They put me in a wheelchair, although the only damaged part of me at the moment couldn’t be physically touched. I was then sent upstairs to the inpatient unit. The staff believed she was going through a manic episode.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 21, 2025

No one has the same bipolar disorder. I cant give a medical opinion but I can teach her how to navigate the psychiatric domain, how to liberate oneself in the environment where we are just numbers, to be fed by what was found based on some statistics. We are all separate human beings. Each individual is unique.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 11, 2025

Psychiatrists focus on treating conditions that require medical intervention, such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric illnesses. Key Responsibilities of a Psychiatrist: Diagnosing and treating mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

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