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Bipolar Disorder and Drug Abuse | World of Psychology

If you were to experience the constant interference, disruption and pain that bipolar brings about, you would understand why one would resort to using drugs. Bipolar disorder makes it hard to get up in the morning, hard to …

World Mental Health Day: recovery depends on the medicine of …

He told me about a period in his life when he spent four out of six years in a psychiatric hospital, had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act, experienced a debilitating psychosis, and was in a very bad place personally. …. Actually, I

Switch to mania after ayahuasca consumption in a man with bipolar …

The presence of preexisting hypomanic episodes, the presence of a positive family history of bipolar disorder, the absence of associated neurovegetative symptoms, and the fact that ayahuasca psychotic episodes are rare …

Remembering Robin Williams—and His Struggles With Mental Illness

The majority of Americans struggle to get decent mental health care, or any mental health care at all. Expansions of insurance, including those in the Affordable Care Act, are enabling more people to pay for treatments.

The impact of treatment decisions on the diagnosis of bipolar disorders

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has broadened the criteria for specified bipolar disorders with the introduction of the diagnostic category of 'other specified bipolar and …