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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest. This Eating Disorder Awareness Week we consider whether eating disorders can change throughout a person’s life. But it’s certainly got ‘different’.

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Can Eating Disorders Change?

MQ Mental Health

But a person diagnosed with anorexia might develop binge eating disorder, or other types of eating disorders, as this personal story backed by research can attest. This Eating Disorder Awareness Week we consider whether eating disorders can change throughout a person’s life. But it’s certainly got ‘different’.

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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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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. 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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Letter From a Bipolar Mom to Her Children

Beautiful Voyager

What I have is called Bipolar Disorder, which, by definition, is a mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression. It started out as depression here and there. In May of 2017, I experienced my first true manic episode followed by a brutal, soul-sucking depression. I started to self-harm.

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Sex differences in mental health among autistic young adults

MQ Mental Health

The study considered different levels of psychiatric care including diagnoses as well as hospitalizations for 11 psychiatric disorders including depression , anxiety , sleep, eating disorders and self-harm. were hospitalized due to a psychiatric disorder. By age 25, 62.4%

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Scientists have dedicated a tremendous amount of effort and resources toward understanding potential risk and protective factors for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB). cognitive inflexibility) may use the same strategy again and again to approach a problem, even when that strategy is ineffective or harmful.