Just started a voluntary trauma education and recovery group for survivors of ACEs First referral from a Primary Care Doctor forced me to become much more knowledgeable about Bipolar Disorder -- research has been highlighting the high incidence of emotional neglect and abuse with this diagnosis for over 10 years now. During my previous years of mental health services, no one ever raised this abuse / neglect as something meriting discussion as a treatment need.
My first client was a 72 yo man who described a life of emotional neglect (his description) from being sent to a boarding school from age 8 onwards -- from the sounds of it, though we haven't gone into it yet -- while attending board school he also suffered other types of abuse,
Does anyone have any research articles discussing this -IN ACTUAL CONCRETE TERMS such as "in our hospital we get such patients into CBT for 3 months and that fixes it" -- I can't as yet find any articles like this -- anyone know of such ?