Gary Direnfeld

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) is a much-misunderstood diagnosis. It first appears in the 2013 edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders, 5 th Edition (DSM-5). As for Intellectual Disability (ID), this is a replacement for the older diagnosis of Mental Retardation. Indeed, it is.

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Disability Depression Psychiatric Disorder 147

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? About six months later, after the disorder had progressed, he revised his diagnosis to rapid cycling bipolar I. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal. My husband, Rob, and I have 5 kids.)

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 105

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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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Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? It only took a couple of weeks for them to refer me to a psychiatrist who diagnosed bipolar II and prescribed medicines used often in bipolar disorder. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal.

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder? It only took a couple of weeks for them to refer me to a psychiatrist who diagnosed bipolar II and prescribed medicines used often in bipolar disorder. A: It was 2008; I was 51 and menopausal.

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I always suspected living with a mild attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that didn’t affect me to a point of challenging my everyday life (or so I thought). 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. Why is that?

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