Disorder – JulianDawson

Mentalisation-based remedy for anti-social character dysfunction exhibits promise in uncommon prison-based trial

JuliandawsonMay 21, 2025026 mins

Jail and probation companies are under-researched settings from a well being perspective. Earlier blogs right here have explored the prevalence of psychological well being issues together with self hurt in prisons, the psychological affect of incarceration and unmet psychological well being wants associated to reincarceration, however by no means earlier than a randomised managed trial in a…

Can sleep and exercise modifications actually predict mania in bipolar dysfunction?

JuliandawsonMay 6, 2025017 mins

Bipolar dysfunction is characterised by typically recurrent episodes of mania and melancholy. Mania is the defining function of bipolar dysfunction. The core signs of mania are uncommon and protracted elated, elevated or irritable temper and power, plus additional signs together with elevated shallowness and grandiosity, decreased want for sleep, speaking extra, having a lot of…

“They referred to one of many shoppers as a BPD c**t”: uncomfortable narratives of borderline persona dysfunction

JuliandawsonMay 1, 2025028 mins

As readers of my earlier contributions to the woodlands will know, I get vexed once we hear about individuals who have lived via traumatic experiences described as having a ‘persona dysfunction’. There may be usually a way that that is needed to ensure that folks to be helped (regardless of the absence of any proof…

Probiotics for bipolar dysfunction and schizophrenia

JuliandawsonApril 16, 2025April 16, 2025024 mins

Over the previous decade there was big curiosity within the function of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in mind operate and psychological well being (as lined in these earlier Psychological Elf blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, 2023). Specifically, there’s hope that microbiome-based therapies could supply a brand new strategy to psychological sickness. Bipolar dysfunction (BD) and schizophrenia spectrum…

Genetic hyperlinks between consuming dysfunction signs and suicidal ideation

JuliandawsonApril 8, 2025April 8, 202507 mins

An MQ researcher has discovered a shared genetic susceptibility between consuming issues and suicidal ideation. (Please word, this weblog mentions suicidal ideation all through.) Consuming issues corresponding to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge consuming dysfunction are extra than simply struggles with meals and physique picture. They carry critical medical and psychological dangers. Amongst these…

Lithium is greatest at reducing the chance of depression-related hospitalisation in bipolar dysfunction, based on new cohort research

JuliandawsonApril 3, 2025April 3, 2025020 mins

Stopping depressive relapse is a serious purpose within the administration of bipolar dysfunction. It has been proven that despair makes up round 72% of general time spent sick in individuals with bipolar (Forte et al., 2015), and that bipolar despair particularly is related to important bodily and psychological morbidity, in addition to elevated mortality (Baldessarini…

Transient admission throughout disaster for individuals recognized with borderline character dysfunction

JuliandawsonMarch 26, 2025March 26, 2025029 mins

‘Borderline character dysfunction’ (‘BPD’) is a controversial psychiatric prognosis, argued to be misunderstood by many, plagued with issues of comorbidity and misdiagnosis, in addition to being stigmatising and overshadowing the trauma which can individuals with the label have skilled. For these causes, to acknowledge the diploma of disagreement and debate, I’ve used inverted commas when…

I Know Methods to Remedy Bipolar Dysfunction

JuliandawsonMarch 25, 2025March 25, 202507 mins

Unique: December 4, 2010 Up to date: March 25, 2025 Consider those that are in search of the reality. Doubt those that discover it. — Andre Gide I’ve heard about each attainable treatment or remedy for bipolar dysfunction; being a considerably public determine, individuals contact me continuously to inform me what I must be doing…

cumulative trauma and bipolar dysfunction

JuliandawsonFebruary 18, 2025014 mins

Individuals with bipolar dysfunction (BD) expertise trauma at considerably increased charges than the final inhabitants, with estimates starting from 50% to 80% having skilled a traumatic occasion sooner or later of their life (Assion et al., 2009; Maguire et al., 2008). Analysis has proven that trauma is related to extra extreme sickness outcomes, together with…

Dissociative Id Dysfunction (DID) and Empathy

JuliandawsonFebruary 10, 202505 mins

DID and Empathy : Consciousness, Analysis and Sources “DID is about survival! As extra individuals start to understand this idea, people with DID will begin to really feel much less as if they’ve to cover in disgrace. DID develops as a response to excessive trauma that happens at an early age and often over an…