Daily Archives: February 20, 2014

Funding for mental health services has never achieved top legislative priority, and reforms requiring parity succeeded only after years of hard-fought battles. After the 2007 brush with economic collapse, the recession, staggering unemployment, budget deficits, and sparse tax revenues, however, … Continue reading →

Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often high users of health care and may present with multiple crises and minor incidents of self-harm or threats.1 As with the boy who cried wolf, inpatient consultants and health care providers may … Continue reading →

Bipolar disorder (BP) is a chronic, debilitating illness that affects 0.4% to 4% of the US population.1,2 The first nosological efforts describing BP appeared in the early 2nd century ad and culminated in Kraepelin’s eloquent description of its phenomenology in … Continue reading →

A focus on the present, dubbed mindfullness can make you happier and healthier. Training to deepen your immersion in the moment works by improving attention.” Pulling into a parking garage you notice you have no recollection how you got there. … Continue reading →