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April 22, 2013 impiou5 Comments Off

DBSA Facilitator Training […]

5 Bipolar Disorder Types

April 4, 2013 impiou5 Comments Off

5 Bipolar Disorder Types described: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Rapid Cycling, Mixed State, and Cyclothymia. […]

When Someone You Care about Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder What Helps What Hurts I understand you have a real illness and that’s what causes these thoughts and feelings. It’s all in your head. I […]

Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale

January 16, 2014 Comments Off

The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) is the most widely used scale for patient selection and follow-up in research studies of treatments of depression. Despite extensive study of the reliability and validity of the total scale score, the psychometric characteristics of the individual items have not been well studied. In the only reliability study to report agreement on individual items using a test-retest interview method, most of the items had only fair or poor agreement. Because this is due in part to variability in the way the information is obtained to make the various rating distinctions, the Structured Interview Guide for the HDRS (SIGH-D) was developed to standardize the manner of administration of the scale. A test-retest reliability study conducted on a series of psychiatric inpatients demonstrated that the use of the SIGH-D results in a substantially improved level of agreement for most of the HDRS items. […]

PTSD

October 22, 2013 Comments Off

PTSD & Parkinson’s Disease: Longer Version

How cortisol can affect the hippocampus, amyglada,damage neurons, synapses and dendrites, etc. The link between emotional trauma and Parkinson’s. […]

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Many people who experienced trauma during childhood blame themselves, often as a mechanism to cope with their past. @Kaytee_Gillis, a survivor of trauma herself, offers this advice on how to break the cycle of self-blame.

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What is it really like to be in a relationship with a narcissist? Real people share their experiences and their paths to healing, by @VinitaMehta2

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We continue to think that to be creative is to have the ability to create new ideas. Here’s why that’s wrong.

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What is it like to be a caregiver for a family member struggling with depression—and how would they define living well? This is what we know, explains @VinitaMehta2

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