While empathetic listening, validating emotions, and scheduled medications effectively calm many agitated patients, they don’t always succeed.

Begin preparation at least six months before conception to ensure stability, switch to safer medications, and manage psychosocial stressors.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and stroke.

Functional neurological disorder (FND) refers to neurological symptoms that are inconsistent with or cannot be fully explained by medical or neurological conditions. 

People with factitious disorder aren’t merely “faking it”—they go to great lengths to make themselves or others appear ill.

Catatonia is a syndrome marked by an apparent lack of responsiveness to external stimuli, despite the individual appearing to be awake.

Brief psychotic disorder (BPD), also known as brief reactive psychosis, looks just like schizophrenia but is short-lived and typically presents with a much more favorable prognosis.

You will often encounter patients with schizophrenia, particularly during exacerbations that lead to psychiatric holds and inpatient hospitalizations.