Many patients with bipolar disorder, a debilitating mental condition that can take a person from the sluggishness of severe depression to super-human energy levels, are often misdiagnosed as having major depressive …
Category Archives: Panic Disorder
California Case Shows How Mental Health Cuts Overload ERs …
States cut five billion dollars in mental health services from 2009 to 2012, according to USA Today. A new article online in Annals of Emergency.
Those with Severe Mental Illness Rarely Tested for Diabetes …
Despite the fact that individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) are two to three times more likely to have type II diabetes than the general population, low-income patients on Medicaid are rarely screened for it, according to a …
OCD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Treatment | Psych Central
Recently, I've been reading some articles on social anxiety, and it struck me how many of the situations and symptoms reminded me of my son Dan when he was in the throes of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Inability to 'read' faces may be inherited trait of panic disorder …
Canadian researchers found kids whose parents have panic disorder make more errors recognizing fearful faces, and misattributed fear and angry expressions as surprised. Girls also made more errors reading sad faces, and …