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5 Reasons Children Bully and How Parents Can Help

KVC

Both children who bully and targets of bullying are at a greater risk for mental and behavioral health issues, including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, sleep difficulties, lower academic achievement and dropping out of school. Words can hurt. Why Do Kids Bully? . The reasons children bully can be difficult to pinpoint.

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

We initially thought that the first episode I had was depression but looking back we realize that I had in fact been hypomanic for some time before that. Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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Mental Health Act reform ditched, King’s Speech confirms

Community Care

The reforms were designed to reduce the use of detention and CTOs, tackle their disproportionate impact on black people and end the inappropriate, and often lengthy, detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities.

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Why Did It Take Me So Long To Accept My Mental Health Medication?

Beautiful Voyager

Leading me to feeling depressed, tired and sad. The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. Studies and publications argue that it isn’t your personality that is changing but rather your feelings of depression and anxiety.

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

We initially thought that the first episode I had was depression but looking back we realize that I had in fact been hypomanic for some time before that. Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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Guest Post: Interview with Merryl Hammond, PhD; Author of Mad Like Me and Navigating Bipolar Country

Bipolar Bandit

We initially thought that the first episode I had was depression but looking back we realize that I had in fact been hypomanic for some time before that. Nothing worked until — after two psychiatric hospitalizations — they finally found a combination of five meds that stabilized me (and virtually knocked me senseless!).

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What is Mild Intellectual Disability (MID)

Gary Direnfeld

Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) is a much-misunderstood diagnosis. The DSM is a compilation and classification of mental disorders as determined by a committee of psychiatrists under the American Psychiatric Association. Similarly, the term manic/depressive is no longer used in favor of Bipolar, also with several subtypes.