Mental health: Introduction
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This tutorial isn’t intended to be an in-depth review of mental health disorders and the drugs used to treat them, it's more of a guide to some of the commoner questions that you may encounter and tips on how to answer them. Because we’re focusing on frequently asked questions, this tutorial only discusses antidepressants and antipsychotics; for guidance on drugs used in other disease states such as bipolar disorder, anxiety and insomnia refer to the Information Sources.
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To understand the impact of developing a mental health disorder upon patients’ lives, you may like to listen to a psychiatric nurse discussing his own depression, or to a patient describing his bipolar disorder and the importance of medicines in managing it. You can also read a mother's experience of postnatal depression.