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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

He has been on an antipsychotic medication to treat schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, for 12 years. He had multiple hospitalizations for psychotic and manic decompensations in his 20s, but he has done well over the past 10 years, which you attribute both to his medication adherence and minimal psychosocial stressors.

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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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Day # 147: Bulimia Nervosa Part 2

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders as we discuss bulimia nervosa. Today's Content Level: Intermediate Clinical Pearls 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 History : Bulimia nervosa (BN) is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating combined with behaviors intended to counteract the weight gain (purging).

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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.

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview by a Psychiatrist

Now Psych

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Walking the Line: Navigating Student Mistreatment by Patients

Psychiatric Times

To Hospitalize or Not? My Patient Overdosed and Now I Feel Guilty… EP: 15. The Many Faces of Catatonia, An Under-Recognized Clinical Syndrome EP: 16. I’m Just So Tired”: Fatigue in a Medically Complicated Patient EP: 17. A Challenge of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Seen From the Emergency Medicine Perspective EP: 18.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

Kids—especially teenage girls—are presenting with self-described Tourette’s, eating disorders, autism, and dissociative identity disorder (DID)—but suddenly, and in a way that doesn’t match how these diagnoses have previously been identified.