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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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

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Currently, a person may be detained for assessment if they are suffering from a mental health disorder of a nature or degree that warrants detention and they ought to be detained for the purposes of their health or safety or the protection of others.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. My family and I had been exhausted by my violent and drastic mood swings. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Medicare 52

Gateway Foundation

MARCH 6, 2023

This disorder’s leading characteristic is an overpowering urge to gamble, no matter the consequences. Those with gambling addiction are at an increased risk of developing a substance use disorder, which can arise from the same stressors. At the same time, consider all the positives of overcoming your gambling disorder.

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Addiction Disorder Recovery 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. A lesser person?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatric Anxiety Recovery 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.

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LMSW Justice and Corrections Schools Mental Health 52

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

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Beautiful Voyager

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What I have is called Bipolar Disorder, which, by definition, is a mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression. It was then, that I realized I needed some true, serious professional help, so I decided to check myself into the local psychiatric hospital. It is not something easily explained.

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Depression Self-harm Hospitals Disorder 98

Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

On the other hand, as a peer specialist, I have noticed that in hospital or peer support group settings, men are overrepresented. The only two occasions I went to the hospital for my mental health challenges were 1) generalized anxiety with panic disorder and 2) severe depression with psychotic events and suicide attempt.

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Psychology Mental Health Recovery Depression 52

Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII.

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Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychology Interviewing 52

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

I treat far more complications from untreated diabetes in the NICU than I do from opioid use disorder." It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. said Patrick. "I NPR and The Marshall Project exposed the practice in 2021.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Third, it will no longer be possible to detain a person with a learning disability or an autistic person under section 3 unless they have a co-occurring “psychiatric disorder” that warrants hospital treatment. This exclusion does not apply to part 3 patients (those in the criminal justice system).

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 21, 2024

million individuals are held in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 142 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S.

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Criminal Justice Justice and Corrections Substance Abuse Rehabilitation 52