Mad in America

JUNE 16, 2025

For clients with conditions like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or OCD, the approach may look different — more structured, grounded in psychoeducation and stabilization. These are people grieving their bodies, their safety, and their place in a rapidly shifting world.

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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

JUNE 12, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News What do readers think of redemption in psychiatry?

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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 have written academic/scholarly articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, position papers, blogs, newspaper articles, and workbooks.

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Mad in America

APRIL 29, 2025

In the biomedical model, this typically refers to constructs labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe major depression, or personality disorders, etc. This can disrupt ones sense of self-integration and/or provoke profound inner torment, which may or may not interfere with major life activities.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel. Instead, what this blog is about is earning the right to be freed from such societal constraints. I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. I was terribly uncomfortable, and over and over I begged her to release me.

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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

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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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

MARCH 26, 2025

One thing is that if you give an antidepressant, for instance, to a young woman who’s suffering from an anxiety disorder and never had a history of bipolar disorder, then she might become hypomanic or manic. Then I put together this with a phenomena related to antidepressants that had been reported in the literature.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

MAY 1, 2025

Or it could be because you actually have an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Having said that, many people who have found antidepressants and/or talking therapies unhelpful depression treatments actually do not have treatment-resistant depression at all they have an undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

MAY 27, 2025

If you or someone you care about is struggling with borderline personality disorder, depression, persistent mood shifts, or bipolar disorder and related disorders, allow me to tell you why seeking help here can be a turning point. A working mother who had given up hope now runs her own counselling blog.

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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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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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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

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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Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

As readers of this blog know I am not high on cannabis. That real world experience was associated with treating hundreds of people for exacerbations of preexisting psychotic disorders as well as seeing psychosis develop in people with no risk factors of family history of psychosis.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.

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Sane Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

These conditions include: Schizophrenia Bipolar disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) Severe anxiety or depression Other mental health conditions that significantly impair daily functioning Psychosocial disability can affect various aspects of life which include:

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

MAY 27, 2025

Areas of Specialisation Our experienced psychiatrists work with a wide range of mental health conditions, but our special focus areas include: Mood Disorders: Depression, bipolar disorder, and dysthymia can be debilitating.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Importance of Professional Expertise Psychiatrists are medical doctors with specialized training in diagnosing and treating mental health disorders. Their expertise allows them to identify the root causes of conditions such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, enabling them to create targeted treatment plans.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

That’s one of the reasons, by the way, that Mad in America has personal stories, and that we also have blogs talking about these initiatives such as respite houses. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder. This shows the power of the internet to give life to peer-run harm reduction initiatives and practices.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

His mother has remained Tony’s main caregiver while she has watched him decline over the years from the continuous drugs prescribed for diagnoses that also include schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, mood disorder, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Theo dealt with bouts of bipolar disorder and deep-seated shame from his years of addiction. I felt like a fledgling bird, not able to fly, but more than eager to learn, Theo says, describing the profound support he received at Sanctuary Centers. The journey wasnt linear.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

JANUARY 3, 2025

We can employ rTMS as part of treatment packages for a variety of concerns including: Depression Bipolar disorder Fibromyalgia Substance use disorder Tinnitus Have you been struggling with a mental health problem? Want to finally get your life back?

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. More people than ever are using psychiatric drugs, such as antidepressants, and seeking psychiatric diagnoses including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and autism.

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Mad in America

APRIL 10, 2025

I t is impossible to make it on your own within the current mental health system in the UK if you suffer from serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, chronic depression or bipolar disorder. By making it I mean to live. Live life with some decency and hope. Enjoy small pleasures in life. Have friends around.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the many studies finding poor long-term results with psychiatric drugs and how the drugs lead to a more chronic course for depression and psychosis. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 11, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD Prevention of wars would reduce the extraordinary loss of lives and major trauma. This video series is taking a short break while Dr Moffic travels.

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NAMI

MARCH 18, 2025

As she shares in the book, Kimberly was sentenced to three years and served seven months in a maximum-security prison, a direct result of untreated symptoms of her bipolar disorder. This blog post is dedicated to Kimberlys partner of 22 years, who died in 2024.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

To clarify this concept better, “psychosis”, “depression”, “anxiety”, “bipolar disorder”, “ADHD” and more are not disorders of organic or genetic origin, caused by “imbalances” in brain chemicals, and psychotropic drugs do not have the function of restoring any balance.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Though I didn’t tell Terry my life story, I mentioned that I’d been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder back in the late 90s. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.” I detailed my physical symptoms and told her I was recovering from brain trauma via psychiatric drugs and a TBI.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. I worry about people who would like to write and arent writing.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants. Delusions and the dilemmas of life: A systematic review and metaanalyses of the global literature on the prevalence of delusional themes in clinical groups. Clin Psychol Rev 2023;104:102303. Psychological Medicine 2005;35:1205-13.

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