Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Administrative pressure to reduce hospital emergency lengths of stay can result in premature discharges. Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Stop Abuse Campaign

MAY 4, 2022

While research shows that some risk factors, such as ACEs and childhood trauma , may predispose someone to develop conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction, and bipolar disorder, it does not mean that these conditions are inevitable. Learn more about ACEs associated with mental health issues here. Take the ACE test here.

Mental Health 97

Mental Health Substance Abuse Domestic Violence Self-harm 97

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Schizophrenia? All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I applied for at least 50 jobs there, both at my administrative level and below it. Others fidgeted, especially one woman whose entire body seemed to shake, from a pulsing foot to fidgety hands. I wondered.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52