Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

From Briarpatch Magazine : “My neighbour’s fire alarm went off before mine. I slept like a corpse as the alarms blared and flames roared through the windows of my apartment. I think I woke up briefly to firefighters trying to get into my apartment, but the memory is hazy.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

One thing is that if you give an antidepressant, for instance, to a young woman who’s suffering from an anxiety disorder and never had a history of bipolar disorder, then she might become hypomanic or manic. He told me, I’d like to see if the paper gets mentioned in magazines or newspapers.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 21, 2025

I felt stupid with my women magazines, books and chocolate I had brought to her, with my pink Peugeot. No one has the same bipolar disorder. But a couple of years later, Sam messaged me again, saying that she was living in a supported house, in the north of Sheffield. I got into my pink Peugeot convertible and drove to see her.

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ADDitude

MAY 14, 2025

They also get misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and, more commonly, with obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ). This is a difficult differential diagnosis because it entails so much dichotomous thinking, emotional reactivity, and fears of rejection and abandonment.

Bipolar disorder 79

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased. One reason for this was that SSRIs were found to increase the risk that a person with unipolar depression would suffer a manic episode and be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis with a much less favorable prognosis.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 145

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

A staggering three-quarters of adults with ADHD have at least one coexisting condition like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), substance use disorder, or an eating disorder.

Autism spectrum 79

Autism spectrum Eating disorders Bipolar disorder Education 79

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning.

Trauma and the brain 131

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