Choosing a Mental Healthcare Facility before You Need One
Bipolar disorder often involves bouts of depression or mania that require hospitalization, which can be particularly stressful for both the person being hospitalized and his or her loved ones. Most...
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When Anger is Mistaken for Mania
From Kate: On a recent admission to hospital I felt more anger than mania. I felt angry over an involuntary admission. As I vented my feelings of anger, they were perceived as symptomatic of a manic...
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Hopewell: A Therapeutic Farm Community
I recently read an interesting article by Kristy Foster on the Farm and Dairy website entitled “A healing place: Farming has a hand in recovery for those suffering from mental illness.” The article...
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Be Prepared
When you’re experiencing a major mood episode, having key information available is essential to ensure that everyone on your treatment team is brought into the loop and the doctor on call has detailed...
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Bipolar Disorder Emergency: Send Police and an Ambulance
The other day, I was looking through a very helpful publication entitled “What To Do in a Psychiatric Crisis in Indiana,” published by NAMI Indiana. I read it before and mentioned it in a previous post...
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Mood Disorder Clinics Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates
Researchers in Denmark have discovered that treatment in specialized mood disorder clinics following a hospitalization significantly reduce hospital readmission rates. In their study, published in the...
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We Can Do Better: Bipolar in the Hospital
Recently, a young adult child of a friend of mine was admitted to a hospital for a first manic episode. She presented in the most typical of ways with sudden changes in energy, sleep, mood, thinking,...
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