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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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A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment

Mad in America

N elson Lee is a therapist and mental skills coach with a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and an MBA. He believes it’s never too late or too early to improve your mental health. After a week, I was fine — then suddenly one night I stopped sleeping. It came on quickly.

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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Mad in America

My journey with this condition led me down a path where I ended up engaging with community efforts to investigate it, to try to spread awareness, and to elucidate aspects that I believe urgently need research so patients can access the correct diagnosis and potential access to treatments. I got insomnia and could barely sleep.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. I said, “On paper everything’s great, but I’m struggling with this existential feeling of being 38, single, childless, increasingly aware of mortality.” She considers the whole person and addresses imbalance at the root.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

Mad in America

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. Admitting a female patient would require someone to stay with her.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.