Disability Disorder Psychiatric 
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.)
Community Care
APRIL 24, 2025
The role of the police in detentions The police have specific powers under sections 135 and 136 of the MHA to detain people with a mental disorder, both with and without a warrant. The bill excludes people with learning disability or autism from detention under section 3 of the MHA, unless they have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
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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