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    In her new book, <em>Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual, </em>Terri Cheney, who lives with bipolar disorder, shares advice for dealing with anxiety and depression and helping loved ones through a crisis.
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    Listen, Open Up, Connect: A Mental Health Expert's Advice On Living Through A Crisis

    Sep 19, 2020
    Decades of living with bipolar disorder was "training" for the coronavirus pandemic, says Terri Cheney, whose new book shares lessons for navigating mental illness — and the times we live in.
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    Book Reviews
    <em>Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough</em>, by Walter A. Brown
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    'Lithium' Is A Homage To A Drug — And To The Renegade Side Of Science

    Aug 14, 2019
    By celebrating those who applied the substance as a drug, Walter A. Brown aims to raise awareness — and to demolish what remains of the myth that scientific progress is driven by rigorous dispassion.
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    Lisa Abramson holds her firstborn child, Lucy, in 2014. A few weeks after Lucy's birth, Abramson began feeling confused and then started developing delusions — symptoms of postpartum psychosis.
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    She Wanted To Be The Perfect Mom, Then Landed In A Psychiatric Unit

    Jan 19, 2019
    Postpartum psychosis is rare but very real, doctors say. And, unlike in some countries, U.S. moms who need inpatient psychiatric care can't bring along their babies, adding to the trauma.
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    A major study published Monday finds that widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol are no more effective than a placebo for treating delirium.
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    Antipsychotic Drugs Don't Ease ICU Delirium Or Dementia

    Oct 22, 2018
    Though widely prescribed in hospital intensive care units to treat hallucinations and other signs of delirium, Haldol and similar drugs are no better than a placebo for such patients, a study finds.
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    From Chaos To Calm: A Life Changed By Ketamine

    Jun 04, 2018
    The anesthetic ketamine first wowed the medical world with its ability to relieve severe depression in hours. Now it's showing promise for other psychiatric disorders, including bipolar and PTSD.
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    An average of 13,776 inmates in 45 California counties were on psychotropic medications in 2016-2017, a recent report found. That is up from 10,999 five years ago.
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    Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California

    May 04, 2018
    Amid a severe shortage of psychiatric beds and community-based treatment throughout the state and nation, county jails have become repositories for people in the throes of acute mental health crises.
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    Light Therapy Might Help People With Bipolar Depression

    Nov 27, 2017
    Light therapy can help treat depression that's part of seasonal affective disorder, but it hasn't worked so well for treating bipolar disorder. It may come down to when people are exposed to light.
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    "I'd lost 60 pounds in the years since my passport picture had been taken and I hardly looked like myself," writes author Haroon Moghul. "Each time I approached a border, I feared I'd be denied a visa or, worse, deported."
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    An Encounter At A Passport Checkpoint Offers Respite From Depression's Grip

    Sep 26, 2017
    Newly divorced and suffering from depression, author Haroon Moghul moved to Dubai for a while, hoping to find a reason to live. Strangely enough, sharing a laugh over his "fat" passport photo helped.
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    A provision in the bill proposed by the GOP Senate would permit Medicaid to pay for longer stints of inpatient psychiatric care. But other parts of the bill would strip $772 billion from Medicaid — the single-largest funder of care for people who have
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    Senate Health Bill Could Both Boost And Undercut Mental Health Funding

    Jul 08, 2017
    The draft health care bill has a provision meant to increase the availability of inpatient psychiatric care. But overall cuts to Medicaid could actually lead to even fewer psychiatric beds nationwide.
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    How Talking Openly Against Stigma Helped A Mother And Son Cope With Bipolar Disorder

    Apr 24, 2016
    Eric Walton was 13 when the Sandy Hook massacre happened. His mother feared he might grow up to be another Adam Lanza. Now Walton and his mother tell of finding the right diagnosis and treatment.
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    #NPRreads: Two Stories About Mental Health And A Profile Of Pitcher Bronson Arroyo

    Oct 23, 2015
    Also this week: an interview with Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Alphabet and formerly the chairman and CEO of Google.
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