Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.
Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. At the time, I didnt know much about it, but I knew it wasnt good. We were coming off the popularity of Ritalin, and now it was Adderall. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? Its an amphetamine.
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
They conducted a review of current guidelines that met the criteria of being peer-reviewed guidelines published after 2004 in English, Dutch, or French, that were centered on monitoring major adverse effects and included evidence-based recommendations. Smessaert, S., Detraux, J., Desplenter, F., Hert, M.
Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. My mom takes handfuls of pills, she tells me.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
The last visit to the ER jolted us to next-level intensity beginning with the ER doctor who traded the Xanax for Klonopin, another benzo, and prescribed Remeron, saying Matt needed to spend the night at the hospital so that they could “make sure he could sleep.” They assured him they would admit him, and I left the hospital.
Mad in America
JUNE 21, 2024
Then a small package arrived, which we opened—it was Cody’s new prescription for risperidone from Hines VA Hospital in Chicago. We were trying to put together the pieces, repeating over and over what everyone said: “But he just wouldn’t leave his girls.” We went down there and counted them.
Mad in America
JANUARY 29, 2024
In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.
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