There are many stigmas surrounding mental illness, especially disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. A huge factor contributing to this stigma is the fact that the general population is relatively uninformed about the details surrounding these...
JAMA Network recently conducted a study in late June of 2018 which concluded that people with stress-related psychiatric conditions are at higher risk for autoimmune disease. This study pulls from a Swedish database documenting 106,464 patients who had a severe...
Bipolar affective disorder is one of the most commonly misdiagnosed mental illnesses, as often symptoms can defy what is expected from the manic-depressive sequence. People with bipolar disorder, at the very barebones understanding of the disorder, have cycles of...
8.1% of people in the United States over the age of 20 have depression during any given 2-week period according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For many patients with depression, it is not a one-time occurrence. It is a...
