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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. Breakdown is dedicated to this population. .

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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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Emotional Support Animals: Considering the Ramifications

Society of Clinical Psychology

Since few regulations govern them, ESAs create an ambiguous situation for mental health professionals, who must act to ensure the safety of their clients, the animals, and the people with whom the clients interact. Finally, the therapist must assess whether the animal has a true therapeutic benefit for the patient. 328 (1990).

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Did anyone else in my family experience mental health issues? I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. Schizophrenia?