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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

This parallels Micha Frazer-Carrolls argument that mainstream mental health awareness campaigns tend to normalize mental illness for the so-called worried well, while deliberately excluding those deemed mad or seriously mentally ill. As a result, this promotes the funneling of the mad toward psychiatry and institutional care.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. So, I developed from scratch a mood tracking system that was designed to help me monitor my condition and promote self-regulation.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. ” Yet, all the elements describing that cursed disorder, except for the tendency to engage in random fights with strangers, appeared to mirror my own self. Later, bipolar disorder took its place.

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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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Women’s Mental Health Care: A Historical Perspective & Progress

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The Suffrage Movement and Its Impact on Mental Health Awareness The women’s suffrage movement was a significant period in American history, but the mental health impact on its participants went largely unnoticed. Lucy Burns documented the emotional suffering of fellow suffragettes who endured force-feeding and solitary confinement.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

Just for context, the decade of the brain was defined as the period between 1990 and 1999, and it was part of a large effort involving the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institutes of Health to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.