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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. However, I am going to say there is one old school antipsychotic I can take that will bring me down. I want to expand on that.

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Investigating the transdiagnostic nature of rumination across depressive, anxiety and eating disorders: A meta-analysis.

Society of Clinical Psychology

Investigating transdiagnostic factors across mental disorders is of high importance as transdiagnostic factors can be targeted for both diagnosis and treatment in a diagnostically mixed sample. As depression, anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid illnesses that share a multitude of risk factors (McGrath et al., Rickerby, N.,

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Bipolar Disorder and Student Mental Health (with Dr Anne Duffy) – MQ Open Minds Podcast

MQ Mental Health

Bipolar Disorder This particular mental health condition and one particular man both had a huge effect on Dr Duffy’s career. Dr Paul Grof from the Czech Republic, a classically trained psychiatrist who had dedicated his life to researching bipolar disorder , became Anne’s mentor when she was training in psychiatry.

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Having hypermobile joints can increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adolescents

MQ Mental Health

A link has been found between joint hypermobility and the emergence of depression and anxiety in adolescence, according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom (BSMS) published in the BMJ Open. It is therefore important to identify the factors that may increase the risk for these disorders.

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Episode: Dr Max Taquet and Why Some People Develop Brain Fog

MQ Mental Health

The effects of Covid-19 on brain function and mental health, as well as the reasons for flaws in diagnosis of psychiatric illness, are all discussed in this episode of the MQ Open Mind podcast. In 2022, Max won an award for this work , winning the Core Psychiatric Trainee of the year award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

Relias

It is used to treat a wide range of issues including health-related distress, family and school problems, and numerous psychiatric disorders. One marker of this is school attendance. Research had demonstrated that over 75% of kids who use CBT saw an improvement in school attendance rates.

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MQ expands its Science Council

MQ Mental Health

Professor Jehannine Austin from the University of British Columbia in Canada is a psychiatrist whose research work involved studying the impact of genetic counselling for people with psychiatric disorders and their families. Additionally, she is also the Director of the Mood Disorders Research program at Yale.