The problem with psychiatry
The problem with psychiatry is that it is based on a science still in its infancy. We still know so very little about brain function or the bi-directional brain-mind interplay.
The problem with psychiatry is that it is based on a science still in its infancy. We still know so very little about brain function or the bi-directional brain-mind interplay.
Bipolarity is more common in hormonally abnormal women like those with PCOS & hyper-insulinemia. Bipolar disorder involves being mired in a state of depression, then shifting abruptly all the way to mania.
Mood disorders including unipolar & bipolar depression & generalized anxiety disorder are exquisitely sensitive to sexual, thyroidal & adrenal hormones.
Psychopharmacologists are those who are or who consider themselves particular experts in the field of psychoactive drug therapy.
Twice as common in hormonally normal women as in men, unipolar depression is triggered by hormonal shifts, is sex-hormone sensitive & hormone-responsive.
Clinical psychology & psychologists and research psychology & psychologists are very different from each other. The clinicians are loosely psychodynamic, the researchers are tightly scientific.