Dysphoric Hypomania: Symptoms, Signs,...

Bipolar dysphoric hypomania can feel agitated, bleak, and confusing. Learn the warning...

The Greatest Medical Mysteries...

The Greatest Medical Mysteries of Alzheimer s Disease Medical Documentary Films 2016 ############################# documentary mysteries...

Rebuilding Trust After Inpatient...

It can be hard to seek inpatient treatment for bipolar disorder when...
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Measuring paranoid beliefs: can adaptive...

Paul is 32 and has recently...

People in prison face disproportionate...

Prisons are important public-health settings: housing...

Measuring paranoid beliefs: can adaptive testing support routine clinical care?

Paul is 32 and has recently been referred to a community psychosis service. He has been struggling with paranoid thoughts and voices that threaten him. At times he is convinced that people are talking about him or planning to hurt him. He feels worn down and finds it hard to concentrate. Some days, just leaving the house takes real effort. At his first appointment, before any therapy begins, he is given several assessment forms. They are long. He fills them in and then waits for them to be reviewed, discussed,...

How Love Addiction...

To test the robustness of the results, the researchers repeated their analyses excluding participants with psychiatric diagnoses. The findings remained consistent. They also...

why post-disaster mental...

“We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it’s a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to...

Starting over: Post-migration...

Imagine being forced to leave your home because it is no longer safe. Maybe there is a war. Maybe your home has been...

What transgender and...

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals experience violence to a greater extent compared to their cisgender counterparts, including hate crimes, physical violence, and...

Prevention in name...

The number of people living globally with dementia has been increasing and is projected to continue to do so; from 55 million in...

what are the...

Collaborative care is a complex intervention for treating people with chronic disease, developed by the originators of the Chronic Care Model (Wagner et al.,...

Could GLP-1 receptor...

Some of my earliest blogs (Kirsten Lawson – 4/4 – National Elf Service) were about the interface between physical health and mental health...

early signs that...

Bipolar disorder is a common mood disorder characterised by periods of depression along with episodes of elevated mood, known as mania or hypomania....

Medical diagnosis increases...

Major Depressive Disorder is the third largest contributor to life-years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death – and is looking...