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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

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. He has been on an antipsychotic medication to treat schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, for 12 years. How can this be?

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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

Mad in America

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. It was a warlike situation; we couldn’t leave the ward, we couldn’t leave the hospital, and we were all stuck inside there.

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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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Veterans & Substance Abuse

Solara Mental Health

Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions Many Veterans with Substance Use Disorder often have a co-occurring mental health disorder. These disorders may include PTSD, anxiety, or depression. Those injured during combat, hospitalized, or experienced trauma have a greater risk for increased drug or alcohol use.

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You’re Not Crazy

Mad in America

REQUEST FOR RECEPTION OF PATIENT INTO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Please receive Sylvie Raymonde Leber for observation and treatment into the psychiatric hospital of which you are Superintendent for a period of 21 days subject to the provision of the Mental Health Act 1959. Id had three brief hospitalizations before Larundel.

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Prodromal Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Understanding and Addressing Challenges

Psychiatric Times

She has not had medical issues, has never been hospitalized or had surgeries, and has no allergies. She was “not the most sociable,” her mother adds, noting that when they watch videos of birthday parties and similar events, she seemed to be on the periphery of events and interacted with others only once prompted.