Posts Tagged ‘Evaluation’

Bipolar Disorder wannabee’s! an article worthy of its headline?

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

 

Why patients are say­ing ‘I want to be bipolar’ by Diana Chan

Is this an art­icle worthy of its headline?

What? you may well ask after read­ing Diana’s article…

Can Diana tell me how many patients are com­ing for­ward purely as wan­na­bee Bipolar sufferers?

How many actu­ally turn out to have Bipolar Dis­order of these so called wan­na­bees. (more…)

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What’s all the fuss about mental health labels?… I decided to re-name my condition “BoP-disorder”!

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

 
PoP

PoP!

 

 “BoP — dis­order” oth­er­wise known as “Bottle of Pop” dis­order!   

My moods relate dir­ectly to this, from highly fizzy and explos­ive when fresh and ener­getic, to com­pletely flat when abso­lutely knackered no fizz left in me. Obvi­ously there are vari­ous states of fizzi­ness between the two extremes. The reason for this post is… (more…)

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The Parades Programme and Study for Bipolar Disorder

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

PARADES

PARADES

Psychoedu­ca­tion, Anxi­ety, Relapse, Advance Direct­ive Evalu­ation and Suicid­al­ity    

” PARADES” Present­a­tion    

Devel­op­ment, eval­u­ation and imple­ment­a­tion of   

psy­cho­lo­gical approaches to bipolar dis­order and   

comor­bid prob­lems   

  • A per­son dia­gnosed with bipolar dis­order in their mid 20’s looses 9years of life
  • 12 years nor­mal health and 14 years of work­ing life
  • Bipolar dis­order is a com­mon and poten­tially severe men­tal health problem
  • 6th ranked cause of dis­ab­il­ity worldwide
  • Estim­ated cost to the UK is over £2 bil­lion per annum
  • Bipolar research received less than 1/7th of the UK research spend com­pared with schizophrenia

   

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