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How to Help My Boyfriend With Mental Health Issues?
My boyfriend is diagnosed as bipolar, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder and anxiety disorders. He has recently in the past year quit taking medications for it. He has tried a number of medications and none of them have worked. We have been doing research recently about the symptoms he has been having. We have found that the closest thing to his symptoms that we...
Can someone be an effective counselor with being bipolar?
Can someone with bipolar disorder be an affective counselor? I am about half way through my masters degree and it was suggested to me by someone outside the program that I should look for a job without patient contact. This has been all I can think about since and I wanted to get a second opinion. My background is that I have experienced depression, but I am typically in a hypo manic state...
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A big challenge in diagnosing bipolar disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), especially in children, is that the two disorders share behavioral symptoms, including impulsivity, irritability, and attention problems. What is disturbing is that they don't share the same treatment protocols. This article reveals a new study that may have found a key component in differentiating between childhood bipolar disorder and ADHD.