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Guest Post: Why Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder is So Tough by G. Alex Patten, MD

Bipolar Bandit

Anxiety vs. Bipolar Disorder. At least half of people with Bipolar Disorder suffer from some sort of anxiety disorder as well. This causes trouble when trying to make an accurate diagnosis, however, because anxiety can mask symptoms of mania/hypomania but not those of depression. ADHD vs. Bipolar Disorder in children.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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Member Voices: Be Wary of Mental Health ‘Experts’ on Social Media

Social Work Blog

Monteiro, LCSW The past two years were filled with fear and uncertainty, exacerbating a mental health crisis with an increase in anxiety, depression, suicide rates, and substance abuse. By Carla B. People who need help should turn to trusted sources.

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you've been framed

Clinical Philosophy

Psychiatry's social scientific critics, for example, typically suggest we should apprehend their object using concepts such as "suffering", "problems in living", "experience", "belief". One way past this problem is to draw a distinction between conceptualisation and framing. One way to do this - and I can't think of any other! -

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NASW Member Voices: ADHD and Mindfulness

Social Work Blog

A study from Psychiatry International found possible benefits of mindfulness to help with self-compassion, quality of life, well being, depression, and anxiety. Zylowska believes that the more a client works on regulating their attention and executive functioning skills, the better they become at managing their ADHD symptoms.

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just published

Clinical Philosophy

Unlike the Maudsley Reader , which is the only other collection still in print, the Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology is a 98 chapter collection of newly written essays , covering a wide variety of topics.

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Kids and the Mental Health Pandemic

Shelter, Inc

Positive metrics included feeling relaxed and hopeful , with negative metrics including depression and anxiety. Not surprisingly, the comparison before and after school closings showed all positive metrics decreasing while negatives ones went up.