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.

Hospitality 120

Hospitality Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 120

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. On the 3rd of October 2023 when he went to hospital for the last time I had a meeting with my soon-to-be PhD supervisor, online. I recorded it in 2005. Who needs such violent care?

Sleep and mental health 101

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 101

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Pharmaceuticals 143

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Construction Education 143

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Philips AIDS Center in a village near Anjar, Gujarat was established by Father Paul on 11 January 2005, after he lost his nephew Philip, 31 years old to AIDS. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar. To whom do we attribute the ability to care?

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104