Category Archives: Diagnosis

Patient-Centered Team Treatment of Schizophrenia Works Best | BU …

Kim Mueser has spent decades helping people with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses recover and rebuild their lives. A Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences professor and executive director of …

Mental health care explained from eye of storm | The Columbian

“Our care has been lacking,” Hamilton said. She said a mental-health system that's tilted strongly toward the pharmaceutical industry winds up overmedicating people in desperate need of compassionate, therapeutic listening …

The Effectiveness of Talk Therapies for Bipolar Disorder | Psych …

Lithium, the first drug treatment used for bipolar disorder, was considered so effective when it was introduced that medication has been the primary focus of.

Slipping Into Psychosis: What It’s Like To Be A 20-Something With Schizophrenia

lolamyers I remember it vividly: twelve years old, sitting on a bench, watching the floor morph into moving pictures. First a face, slowly turning from left to right; next, a sailboat on choppy waves. I thought everyone saw the world like I did, that everyone’s reality wiggled and squirmed when scru …

Magaret, David and a Handy Hollow Leg

Margaret and I kept crossing paths. By chance, I found a seat next to her at the Garden Writers Association luncheon at Canada Blooms last March. As we nibbled away at our plates of assorted sandwiches and cold salads, Margaret and I chatted. There was something so familiar and comfortable about thi …