Because of the short duration of brief psychotic disorder, treatment is brief and focused on being as nonrestrictive as possible. However, it remains clinically imperative to prevent patients from harming themselves or others. Accordingly, patients experiencing an acute psychotic attack may have to be hospitalized briefly so that they can be evaluated and their s...

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On the very first blog, I choose to talk about a condition we all know as “Emotional Distress”.  You know, that condition that makes us stay awake long after what is supposed to be our bedtime.  The condition that makes our hearts ache; the condition that makes some of us go days without food, (and don’t even feel hungry), and some of us eat everything and anything that will bring temporar...