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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.

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Living With Schizoaffective Disorder

MQ Mental Health

Last month saw World Schizophrenia Awareness Day (24 May). 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. Our thanks to Giles for this open and honest contribution.

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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. In a wider context, the term also means the inability to cope with life’s challenges.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although studies varied to some extent in terms of their findings, cognitive flexibility did not appear to be consistently or strongly associated with a history of SITB when researchers accounted for other mental health problems like depression. Schizophrenia Research , 85 (1–3), 196–200. Apfeldorf, W., Duberstein, P. Linehan, M.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

Sometimes they talk about, say, anxiety or depression or hypomania, sometimes about relationship and work difficulties. Consider Maya Abbott, a ‘tall, dark, attractive woman of twenty-eight’ who has spent 9 of the last 10 years in a psychiatric hospital. Gaita is a 17 year old ward assistant in a psychiatric hospital.