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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

Mad in America

Laura was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. While previously bipolar disorder, formerly called manic-depressive illness, was applied to a narrow group of people who experience dramatic extremes of mood and energy level interspersed with periods of fairly normal function, it was now applied to a much broader range of people.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

This 60-year gap likely contributed to the progressive decrease in screening, documenting, and discussing the cause and course of TD with patients. She has been on an antipsychotic medication to treat her bipolar disorder for 10 years, resulting in stability of mood symptoms that were previously poorly controlled.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

They’re too exhausted from seeing patients, documenting notes in electronic health records, and dealing with the frustrations of our mechanized healthcare system. But here’s the reality: your doctor isn’t spending their spare time combing through medical journals and textbooks at night and independently verifying research.

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

Fast-track certifications and accelerated clinical degree programs reduce therapy to a mix of buzzwords, enabling therapists to meet insurance documentation standards without true understanding or application. These surface-level applications mask the growing gap between therapeutic labels and actual clinical practice.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. In a Word document, I wrote down what the idea was about. This Word document was actually an integral part of the system. Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa.

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Terese's story

Sane Blog

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

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Celebrate World Bipolar Day: Breaking Barriers and Building Awareness

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

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.