MQ Mental Health

JUNE 14, 2023

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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Famcare

JUNE 29, 2023

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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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 12, 2024

One of the first ever MQ Fellows selected was Dr Joshua Roffman from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Given known areas of overlap in risk for autism and schizophrenia, I wondered whether periconceptional folic acid might also confer protection against schizophrenia risk.

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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

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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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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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Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII.

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Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 14, 2023

boys with adjustment disorders). Her program of research is focused on improving health outcomes for those vulnerable to self-inflicted injury (SII), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and suicide. Cognitive reappraisal intervention for suicide prevention (CRISP) for middle-aged and older adults hospitalized for suicidality.

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