Psychosis reading for the week.

I am going to not quote the full guidelines here, nor show all the diagrams. My college has just published this [1]: they have lumped all mood disorders together. Noting that there are psychotic symptoms, and trying to simplify treatment regimens.

This is their flowchart for depression, and yes, it includes ECT.

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And this (which will be quite controversial) is the guideline for mania, and it does include the use of atypical antipsychotics in first line, and discusses psychosis and ECT.

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The full document is about 100 pages. If you practice psychiatry, it will need study: if you know people with depression or mania it is worth acquiring from someone who has library priveleges.

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1. Link to pubmed abstract. Full paper behind a paywall.