Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Society of Clinical Psychology

JULY 30, 2018

For example, a psychiatric service dog might remind an individual with schizophrenia to take her medication on time, while a guide horse may assist a Parkinson’s patient with maintaining his balance (Younggren, Boisvert, & Boness, 2016). ESAs are quite different from service animals, which perform specific tasks for their handlers.

Psychology 52

Psychology Schizophrenia Therapist Disability 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia. Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition.

Disorder 96

Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Diversity Consultation Schizophrenia 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. What did he mean?

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

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. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52