article thumbnail

Uncharted territory: cumulative trauma and bipolar disorder

The Mental Elf

Magda Skowronska summarises a recent systematic review which finds that cumulative trauma could lead to earlier onset of bipolar disorder. The post Uncharted territory: cumulative trauma and bipolar disorder appeared first on National Elf Service.

article thumbnail

Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos.

article thumbnail

Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

And few diagnoses are as adamantly claimed to be biological in nature (counter to all evidence) as much as bipolar disorder. That no one has ever established any such thing to be true for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Trauma-informed therapy was necessary to help Laura.