Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder?

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. I had zero mental health issues for the first fifty-plus years of my life… Q: When did you first experience bipolar disorder?

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Community Care

MARCH 7, 2024

The magazine covered the gamut of social work and social care including child protection, adoption, mental health and services for disabled and older people. Even at university, Mark got involved with the International Voluntary Service, where he started a group to help psychiatric patients with painting and decorating.

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Interviewing Psychiatric Social Worker University 47

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

SECTIONED

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Each fresh attempt to get care, treatment & support for severe & enduring mental ill-health in the past 3 years since I was discharged from community mental health services has led to more & more professionals covering their own arses. If you’re a psychiatric patient, you are worthless.

Mental Health 8

Mental Health Psychiatric Schizophrenia Healthcare 8

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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Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

University of Connecticut

JUNE 18, 2024

She established this scholarship to provide meaningful support to a student in need with an interest in working in a mental health setting. By being able to get the experience of working closely in mental health and substance use communities, my eagerness to get out there and begin contributing to this population has only grown.

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Schools Social Worker Domestic Violence Clinic 52

Social Work Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association has announced revisions to the DSM 5 which will be released in March 2022. Clinical social workers may purchase a copy of the DSM-5-TR from Amazon, any large bookstore, or the American Psychiatric Association at www.psychiatry.org. intellectual disability is now intellectual developmental disorder.

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Psychiatric Disorder Depression Clinic 76

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By Tim Spencer-Lane On 6 November 2024, the Mental Health Bill was introduced in Parliament. The bill contains measures to amend the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) in order to strengthen the voice of the patient and ensure that that detention is only used when, and for as long as, necessary.

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Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 55