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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. I have written a blog How to Support Someone with Bipolar Disorder , but have some things to add. In addition, he has agreed to read info about how to support ppl with bipolar disorder including my own blog. I want to expand on that.

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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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News Items – July 29, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospitals Announces $1 Million Anonymous Donation to Launch Student Loan Forgiveness Program for Behavioral Health Professionals. They realized that Black and Brown therapists were doing amazing things but often overlooked. New York City. faces a national mental health professional shortage. Smart Business.

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Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

is an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. is a clinical research coordinator in the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Related Disorders program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 55 , 70–78.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

I was entrusted to a mental hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont at age fifteen. This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock.

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News Items – April 1, 2022

Social Workers Speak

With some of the clients I see the eating disordered behaviors, the self harming, the obsessive compulsive type of behaviors. Kate Morris is a member: Does Vermont have enough eating disorder treatment for youth? has increased dramatically. As a middle school counselor Ruiz faced this problem head on. Rebellious. Five Thirty Eight.

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