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Category Archives: Treatment planning
Crisis? What crisis?
I’ve thought about blogging so often in recent weeks, with several abortive attempts. I considered writing about the therapeutic benefits of having a companion animal – if you don’t follow me on social media, I now have a cat! She’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, Depression, Hypomania, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Self-management, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning
Tagged Antidepressants, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Clinical depression, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Team, Depressed thinking, Depression, Hypomania, Medication, Rapid cycling, Risk, Suicide, suicided
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Running up that hill
Trigger warning: this post contains descriptions of suicidal thoughts, including methods. Please don’t read on if you are feeling at all vulnerable. I want to run. I am desperate to run. When I wrote my last post my idea was … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, GP, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged abscond, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Team, escape, Sucidality, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide risk
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On having a “carer”
By now I am a veteran at completing application/review forms for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP). ESA is for people who are too sick to work, while PIP is to cover extra expenses associated with … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Crisis care, Depression, Employment and benefits, GP, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Rapid cycling, Suicidal thought, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Anxiety, Benefits, Benzodiazepines, Bipolar, Carer, Community Psychiatric Nurse, Crisis Team, Depression, ESA, GPs, PIP, Suicidal thoughts
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The pam fam: the demonisation of benzodiazepines
“Diazepam.” A single word tweet. Regular readers or Twitter followers will know what that meant: I had hit an intolerable level of anxiety which I was managing with a prescribed benzodiazepine. One which I am not only authorised but encouraged … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, CBT, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Depression, Hypomania, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, Pillshaming, Primary care, Psychiatry, Rapid cycling, Self-management, Social media, Stigma and discrimination, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Benzodiazepines, Benzos, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Crisis, Diazepam, GPs, Lorazepam, Mixed affective state, Mixed episode, Mixed mood, Mixed state, Prescribing, Prescribing practice, Primary care, Social media, Temazepam, Twitter, Xanax
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Revolving door
TW: references to suicide methods I remember the first time I was in hospital I was sitting on the floor chatting with my friend Phil, when he spotted somebody he recalled from a previous admission. “There’s Paul!” he said, looking … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, Inpatient care, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Community Psychiatric Nurse, CPN, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Resolution Team, Crisis Team, Hospital bed, Hospital care, Inpatient, Inpatient care, Inpatient treatment, Mixed affective state, Mixed episode, Mixed mood, Suicidal, Suicidal feelings, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicidality, Suicide, Suicide planning, Suicide risk
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Review: Ellen Forney’s Rock Steady
I started out by really, really wanting to like this book. I adored Ellen Forney’s graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me, which came out a whole six years ago. So I was excited when a friend told me that … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Book reviews, Books and reading, Medication, Mindfulness, Mood disorder, Self-management, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Advice, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Book reviews, Books, Drugs, Ellen Forney, Marbles, Medication, Rock Steady, Self-awareness, Self-help, Self-management
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Some people find psychiatry helpful… and that’s OK
I grew up very close to a Victorian asylum. It began to close in the late 1980s, when I was in my teens, but even as a child I was aware that some of the people I saw wandering the … Continue reading
Posted in Antipsychiatry, Diagnosis, History of mental health, Hospital, Inpatient care, Medication, Mental health, mental health debate, Mental health services, NHS services, Psychiatry, psychology, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Antipsychiatry, Asylum, Diagnosis, Mental health, Mental Health Act, mental health professionals, Mental health services, Psychiatric drugs, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatric ward, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Psychology
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Bed/crisis
In past times when I have been very ill a bed has been found at my local unit – and quickly. I think one was sourced within the day the first time around, and the following day at the start of my … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, Depression, Hospital, Hypomania, Inpatient care, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, Politics and current affairs, Psychiatry, Rapid cycling, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Bed crisis, Crisis care, Crisis services, Crisis Team, Distraction techniques, Home Treatment Team, Hospital bed, Hospital care, Inpatient bed, Inpatient treatment, Mixed affective state, Mixed episode, Mixed mood, Mixed state, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatric ward, Rapid cycling
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Who’s listening?
It’s no fun being trapped in a pit. You were walking along in the forest and you just kind of… slid. And now you’re on your own in the darkness, looking up at the moon through a circle of dirt. You didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis care, Depression, Hospital, Mental health, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Stigma and discrimination, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Budgetary cuts, Depression, Finances, Mental health, Mental health services, NHS, Psychiatry, Stigma, Talking
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How not to annoy your patient
Today I saw a rather old Independent article on Twitter. I’m surprised I haven’t come across it before – it’s been out there since 2010 – but now that I’ve seen it, I can’t unsee it. Entitled How not to … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, Depression, GP, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, NHS services, Psychiatry, Social media, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Assessment, Diagnosis, Diagnostic labeling, Diagnostic manuals, Doctors, Empathy, General practice, GP, mental health professionals, Patient interaction, Professional boundaries, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry
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