Tag: Bipolar

• Let's Talk About Bipolar Disorder

  Oct 7, 2014
  By: Elinore F. McCance-Katz, M.D., Ph.D., FAAAP, Chief Medical Officer, and Paolo del Vecchio, M.S.W., Director, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

  Bipolar disorder, sometimes called “manic-depressive illness,” is a serious mental illness that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels. In any given year, it impacts approximately 2.6 percent of the American public.

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  Tagged Depression | Basics | Bipolar | Mood Disorders

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• Three Words Everyone with Mental Illness Should Learn

  Jul 24, 2014
  By: Jessica Gimeno, Mental Health Advocate

  Young people are often told we're too immature to understand pain. But I refused to be silenced. Instead, I cried louder. My turning point came when I was 18 years old and my friend Dina, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, committed suicide.

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  Tagged Youth | Depression | Bipolar | Observances | Help | Mood Disorders

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• Making Recovery from Mental Illness and Addiction the Expectation, not the Exception

  Dec 20, 2013
  By: Pamela Hyde, Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

  This week a new study reported that nearly one in five American adults experienced a diagnosable mental illness in 2012. Of these tens of millions of Americans, less than half (41 percent) received any mental health services in that time.

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  Tagged Treatment | Basics | Bipolar | National conversation on mental health initiative

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