Tag: Bipolar Disorder

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Do violent crimes happen more to patients with mental illness?

In the media, we often see that the people who hurt people, set fires and made trouble are [mental patients]. Early in the morning, a police car brought a patient who beat his mother. I will take this opportunity to take you to get a close look at the [true face] of the mentally ill who hit people. Police: It is not difficult to control something that has happened, I will first find out the situation from the child policeman Zhang Da. The following is his story. Doctor, this time it was Da Liu, a patient from our district, who called his mother early in the morning. The neighborhood committee called us and said that I knew it was this Read More …

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Can you really cure your mental illness by electrifying your brain?

Before the discovery of psychotropic drugs in the 1950s and 1960s, the prospects for the treatment of mental diseases were really bleak. At that time, there were only three types of treatments available-electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), insulin coma and psychiatric surgery. As a result, many patients have been imprisoned in psychiatric hospitals all their lives, while others are in [infinite reincarnation]-once discharged from hospital, they will not be able to live a normal life, will become ill again, and will soon be hospitalized again. Insulin-induced epilepsy for psychosis? Researchers found that for patients suffering from both schizophrenia and epilepsy, when epilepsy symptoms worsen, mental symptoms will be relieved. In the 1930s, a Hungarian doctor tried to alleviate schizophrenia by inducing seizures, Read More …

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Don’t want to live? This may be a [disease]

Is suicide a personal right? Many countries are discussing whether people have the right to end their lives. Psychologist Thomas Szasz and doctor Jack Kevorkian believe that how people die is a basic human right that is not controlled by the state. However, other researchers said that most of the attempted suicides did not commit suicide again later, which indicates that they did not really want to end their lives. However, it must be noted that the risk of suicide again is still higher than that of the average person, so we need to intervene with the attempted suicides. In fact, most people who intend to commit suicide are hesitant about [whether to end their lives]. The choices of many Read More …

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It’s hard to tell the true from the false! The Legend of Electric Shock Treating Psychosis

Perhaps because of the famous movie “Flying over the Madhouse”, in the imagination of many people, the electroshock therapy in the field of psychiatry is like this: the patient is tied to the bed in pain, and the whole body is convulsive and trembling because of the electroshock. In fact, this barbaric scene has long been history, but electroshock therapy is not [outdated]. Why does such cruel treatment still exist? Who and when is it used? Let’s put aside our prejudices and understand it. The truth is often surprising. Can electric shock therapy lead to epileptic seizures? This is true, but the therapeutic effect of electroshock therapy also comes from epileptic seizures. The depressive symptoms of patients will be improved Read More …

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[Manic] People are more likely to succeed, or are successful people more [manic]?

A few days ago, the ward was very lively, especially the one where Wang Xiaoer and Xu Sanduo were. Wang Xiaoer is a salesperson of 4S store, Because of his outstanding work performance and enthusiasm and generosity, he is highly valued by his boss. Because he always has a few days, dial all the customers who have bought cars in his hands in recent months, in addition to work, he is caring and attentive on the phone, and he is even more close than the customer’s mother-in-law. A chat is like the water of the Yangtze River gushing forth, another is like the Yellow River flooding out of control, and he will not give up until the other party puts Read More …