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Eating Disorders Awareness Week: What Happens The Day Someone Is Sectioned For Anorexia?

MQ Mental Health

This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, MQ’s copywriter Juliette Burton who also works as a writer, comedian, and mental health activist, shares her experience of what happened the day she was sectioned under the mental health act for anorexia. So, I spent my 18 th birthday sectioned under the mental health act in hospital.

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Living with Someone Who Has Bipolar Disorder and Learning as You Go: How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder; Part 2

Bipolar Bandit

First, let me say it is not easy living with someone with bipolar disorder. Their severe depressions and highest of manic episodes can ruin relationships. I have written a blog How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder , but have some things to add. In the blog I wrote a long time ago, I said to have an action plan.

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Depression and suicide risk: An interview with new MQ Fellow Dr Alexandre Lussier

MQ Mental Health

MQ is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandre Lussier from the Lussier Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded an MQ Fellowship. Alexandre is studying extent to which the timing of child and adolescent depression interacts with genetic susceptibility to influence suicide risk in early adulthood.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

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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Living With Schizoaffective Disorder

MQ Mental Health

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. If I was in an accident and I broke my leg I reckon on most days I’d get a visit in hospital.

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COVID-19 Inquiry: The Missing Mental Health Impact

MQ Mental Health

Why were the psychiatric hospitals emptied at the same time as community care was shut down? Early in the pandemic, studies were conducted into whether people with Covid-19 were at an increased risk of being diagnosed with brain disorders such as cognitive problems, depression, anxiety, psychosis, strokes, brain haemorrhage and more.

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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. Due to the vast amount of mental health difficulties that the American populace is dealing with, case managers for mental health are in high demand.