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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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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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Using Serum Drug Levels

Psychiatric Times

Finally, it provides documentation to justify why the medication was stopped or increased to off-label dosages, or to explain the clinical appropriateness of the treatment plan to an insurance company or colleague. mmol/L, there was a 2.6 times greater relapse risk than patients with a serum lithium concentration of 0.8

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

Trends in Diagnosis One day, I mustered the courage to ask him if my assumption that I might have borderline personality disorder was accurate. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder? But you don’t have borderline personality disorder.”

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

10 For younger generations, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, the use of EHRs is second nature, streamlining documentation and improving access to patient history and data analysis. 9 Another major technological shift in medicine has been the integration of electronic health records (EHRs).

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Prodromal Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Understanding and Addressing Challenges

Psychiatric Times

Early-Onset Schizophrenia Concerns The prodrome for schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders involves a series of shifts or a decline in diverse subjective and behavioral symptoms that come before the appearance of overt clinical psychotic symptoms.

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You’re Not Crazy

Mad in America

Date: 13.4.1972 From documents obtained via F.O.I. It was for people diagnosed with personality disorders. While at Larundel, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, drug-induced psychosis, personality disorder, and manic depression (now called bipolar disorder) but never with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).