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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

of patients who were prescribed antipsychotics for their psychiatric illness and had evidence of tardive dyskinesia (TD) had TD recorded properly in their electronic health records, supporting the idea that TD is often underreported and misdiagnosed and, therefore, not treated appropriately.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.

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I Am Looking for People I Miss

Mad in America

I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. I always found it important to make friends if I was in a hospital (a few times). We would exchange clothes and beauty products and just laugh at almost everything in the hospital. As with Sam, we met in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield.

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A Felt Sense of Safety – From Disassociation to Embodiment

Mad in America

I depended on her expertise to keep me out of crisis, while the medication kept me grounded, sleeping, and helped me forget. This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes. Both got on medication.

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

Mad in America

I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. Upon reaching the hospital, I was greeted by two desk clerks. I was asked for my ID, insurance, and other things that hospital staff typically ask of a patient. That was the beginning of the beginning. I’ll call him Carlos.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. Later, bipolar disorder took its place.

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“Feel Good” Chemical Serotonin Signals Future Rewards to Brain: Study

ADDitude

Serotonin, involved in the regulation of everything from mood and movement to appetite and sleep, has been historically deemed a “feel good” chemical. 11.12.566727; doi:[link] 3 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The risk of developing depression is about 2.5 bioRxiv (2023).11.12.566727;