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Tag: “It would be like I never existed”: two minutes with manic psychosis 1978

  • “It would be like I never existed”: two minutes with manic psychosis, 1978

    Paul RousseauCharleston, South Carolina, United States Foreword Mental illness is often marginalized by non-psychiatric clinicians, yet it causes as much suffering, if not more, than physical illness. I was a medical student completing a rotation in psychiatry when I observed the encounter described here. The patient had visited several community clinics and received little treatment…