Worldwide, bipolar disorder affects about two people in every 100 during their lifetime (2% lifetime prevalence). Bipolar disorder affects men and women equally, in contrast to major depression andanxietydisorders which tend to affect more women than men. Bipolar disorder does not appear to have ...
Does it usually start around a certain age? And do things like your race or location raise your chances of getting it? The field of epidemiology can help answer these questions. It’s a branch of science that looks at how often conditions and diseases affect different groups of people and ...
Further analyses demonstrated that psychiatric illness may affect virologic outcomes through increased probability of being prescribed HIV medications. Alternatively, cigarette smoking and drug use appear to negatively affect subsequent HIV Care Continuum milestones such as medication adherence. Findings provide ...
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Furthermore, mental illness was prevalent in these deaths, and people with schizophrenia and delusional disorders had higher odds of being in this group. The high rates of mental illness diagnoses among people experiencing illicit drug toxicity death, and of serious mental illness among people ...
However, if pregnancy does not have a “protective” effect on risk of depressive relapse, some women with a history of major depression, particularly those with highly recurrent disease, may elect to continue taking antidepressants during pregnancy to avoid the morbidity associated with depressive ...
So, mental illness is not a death sentence. What does that mean to you, my readers? It means that while there is life, there is hope. I have had the great fortune to recover and to have medications that deal with just about all of my symptoms. I know medications can be expensive fo...
CONCLUSIONS Correlates of postabortion mental disorders were variables that have been identified as general risk factors for mental disorders, which supports the idea that abortion does not pose specific risks to future mental health. Future research should investigate in what way unstable relationships,...
How does Wolf’s story relate to the experiences of young people who hear voices? The experience of exclusion due to perceived dangerousness, uselessness, or merely illness was reported consistently by young people who described interactions with peers, teachers, and healthcare professionals as alien...
◦ Healthcare providers should recognize nuance in how racism and homophobia may uniquely interact to affect the mental health of individual gbMSM. Background Sexual minority groups, including gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM), are at greater risk of mental health di...