Various medications may be used in the treatment of hypomania or mania and a number of factors will be taken into consideration before one of more of these is prescribed. The severity and duration of symptoms is influential; whether other illnesses are being treated, the effectiveness or otherwise of previous treatments and of course, the financial costs all have to be factored in.
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The latest in my series on "Up" ... With your help, we have been exploring psychiatry’s dirty dark secret - dysphoric and dark mania... Read more »
Continuing in my series on up ... Not long ago, in two posts on psychosis, I made reference to Jung’s personal “Red Book,” which... Read more »
Friday, Central Connecticut. I'm at my mom's place, not far from where I grew up. My brother and sister-in-law will be arriving shortly.... Read more »
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