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Pregnancy and postpartum period is a time of psychiatric vulnerability for women
Pregnancy and the postpartum period is a time of psychiatric vulnerability for women, and both treatment and lack of treatment of mental illness carry some risk to both mother and child. Still, mental illness during this vulnerable time is predictable, identifiable, treatable, and, therefore, preventable. For the clinician treating a patient with a history of […]
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SUBSTANCE MISUSE IN PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC
Having described the possible impact of some commonly misused drugs on mental health, it may be useful to approach the situation from the perspective of substance misuse in people with diagnosed psychiatric disorders. Studies show that up to 50% of people with schizophrenia have either a drug or alcohol problem. Both conditions feature the impairment […]
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Example of Psychiatric Case Study
Example of Psychiatric Case Study: A 24-year-old woman with panic attacks and phobia “It was so frightening when it first happened. I was sitting on a bus, when all of a sudden my heart started beating so fast that I felt I was having a heart attack. I had difficulty breathing, and then I started […]
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A brief social history of psychiatric treatment
Sedgwick notes that two broad responses to emotional problems can be traced to antiquity. On the one hand, attempts have been made to tamper with the bodies of people with emotional afflictions, for example douching them in water or drilling holes in their skulls to allow evil spirits to escape. On the other hand, in […]
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Literature on psychiatric patient satisfaction and dissatisfaction
The emerging body of satisfaction research about mental health services has commonly adopted a needs-assessment approach. This has usually assessed patient satisfaction according to ‘normative need’; that is need defined by an acknowledged expert and typically ascertained by means of standardized assessment tools. These approaches have been linked to the emphasis on ‘quality assurance’, which […]
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How to do psychiatric assessment
There is a myth that psychiatric assessment differs from that in other medical specialties: it does not, it follows the familiar sequence of history, examination (both mental state and physical) and investigation, leading to differential diagnosis. Another myth holds that management cannot proceed without obtaining an extensive history that delves into all aspects of a […]
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Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity
Mental symptoms: 30% of adults experience worry, tension, irritability or sleep disturbance at any time All mental disorders: >20% of adults at any time suffer mental health problems; 25% of general practice consultations involve mental health problems Depression (including mixed anxiety and depression): 10% of adults depressed in a week; 55% depressed at some time […]
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