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

Mad in America

This b t, however, dominates insurance reimbursement practices, requiring all mental health professionalseven those without medical degreesto use DSM diagnoses as a medical framework for both billing and treatment. They are often conveniently time-limited, making them more cost-effective for insurers.

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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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Successfully Prescribing MAOIs for Depression

Psychiatric Times

There is no personal or family history of bipolar disorder. 61 TMS is also expensive and can be difficult to receive without adequate insurance coverage. Ms Wendy related a milder, less incapacitating depressive episode 15 years earlier, which responded to sertraline.

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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

Mad in America

Like Laura, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age seventeen. They’re clusters of symptoms, often reported and evaluated subjectively, and often shaped more by insurance billing codes than science. Over the next two decades, I cycled through seven psychiatric hospitalizations.

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Walking the Line: Navigating Student Mistreatment by Patients

Psychiatric Times

The Debilitating Impact of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder EP: 29. Difficulties With Insurance and Patient Care: “Why Is the System So Complicated?” Neurosyphilis: When an Antipsychotic Is Not Enough EP: 28. This Is Not Me!”: Mental Illness Is an Equal Opportunity Employer EP: 30. The Slow Road to Psychosis Now Viewing EP: 32.

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Why Do I Feel So Undeserving?

From Both Sides of the Couch

Personal Perspectives Essential Reads The Beautiful Mess of Being Human When Personal Truth Disregards Objective Truth I have pre-existing psychiatric comorbidity with my long-standing diagnoses of anorexia, major depressive disorder with psychotic features, and borderline personality disorder.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Phone: (301) 970-4001 Website: [link] Availability: Immediate/within 1 week Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield and Johns Hopkins EHP and USFHP insurance plans are accepted. Mostly sees patients with a Mood Disorder: Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder. All affective disorders, most psychiatric diagnoses.