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Living With Schizoaffective Disorder

MQ Mental Health

Last month saw World Schizophrenia Awareness Day (24 May). MQ supporter Giles Addison kindly shared his personal experience of being diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder. Giles’ condition is related to but separate as a diagnosis from both Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.

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The Art of Destressing: How Creativity Creates Less Stress

MQ Mental Health

Art therapy has been gradually and successfully used to reduce suffering from disorders such as depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment and dementias, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia. Art therapy, music therapy, and many creative therapies have been found to have a benefit to inpatient care.

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Everything You Need to Know About Mental Health Case Management

Famcare

The most prevalent mental ailment among Americans is depression, but they also have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. Mental health issues have been identified in more than 50 million Americans.

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Guest Post: The Difference Between Mental Health & Mental Illness by Amelia Blackwater

Bipolar Bandit

The main groups of mental disorders are: * Anxiety disorders. Eating disorders ex. Mood disorders ex. depression or bipolar. Personality disorders ex. borderline personality disorder. Psychotic disorders ex. schizophrenia. Substance abuse disorders ex. anorexia or bulimia.

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Why the DSM 5 Doesn’t Acknowledge Sensory Integration Symptoms

University of Connecticut

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a condition where a person has difficulties regulating their senses within their environment. For many people with SPD, their constant need to re-regulate their senses to adapt to the stimuli around them, creates symptoms of distractibility, irritability, anxiety, and depression.

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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

In 2014, Dr Andrea Reinecke (UK) developed a life changing intervention for panic disorder that combined CBT and a blood pressure drug into a treatment that only needed to be. Professor Petra Vértes (UK) used genetics to improve understanding of the biological underpinnings of Schizophrenia in 2017.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Anxiety, panic attacks, or shakiness.