ADHD
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Everone reading this blog by now probably knows that ADHD means  “attention deficit hhyperactivity disorder.”   You may not know what  ODD is and what those initials stand for :  “oppositional defiant disorder.”
ODD is a diagnoisis that in  the past has been used mostly for children; it’s relatively new to use it  with adults.  The  criteria  for making [...]

It’s rare for a psychiatrist to discuss openly and publicly psychiatric illness in his family.  That’s what makes the recent editorial by Dr. Jan Fawcett so impressive.*
Dr. Fawcett is a distinguished psychiatrist who specializes in depression and is the editor of a journal, Psychiatric Annals.  In the most recent issue,  January 2008,  he writes about [...]