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http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/motivate-me/88083035/carrie-fisher-is-a-prime-example-of-what-it-means-to-live-with-bipolar-disorder-productively As a psychologist, I am aware of Bipolar Disorder’s significant fallout. It is chronically difficult for those who live with it and hugely taxing on partners and families. Every mental health professional has witnessed the distress of someone raised by a wildly unpredictable mother or father (often with undiagnosed Bipolar), who forced them to…
Neuroimaging Accurately Distinguishes TBI From PTSD
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/848066 “Persons with TBI or PTSD can present with overlapping symptoms, making them challenging to tell apart,” coauthor Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), told Medscape Medical News. “SPECT imaging can be effectively used in both inpatient and outpatient settings to understand if a patient may have PTSD as…
CDC: Zika and Guillain-Barré Syndrome
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#Facebook #moderators #develop #PTSD
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/31/facebookmoderators-develop-ptsd-exposed-worst-content-internet/ “When Facebook say that they’re hiring 3,000 moderators, I’d say two things,” she told an audience at the Hay Festival. “You’ve two billion members, one post a day – that’s two billion pieces of data. No good, having 3,000 moderators. “And secondly, I have a major ethical problem with 3,000 young people coming out…

PTSD treatment: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro that emphasizes the role of distressing memories in some mental health disorders, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[1] It is an evidence-based therapy used to help with the symptoms of PTSD.[2][3] It is thought that when a traumatic or distressing…