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
DECEMBER 11, 2023
For instance, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 examined both published and unpublished studies of antidepressant efficacy. And even all these negative findings and warnings can be considered optimistic because of publication bias— negative studies are much less likely to be published.
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Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 23, 2023
These children’s programs act similarly to psychiatric hospitals in that they control residents’ custody and communication with the outside world, but they are typically not strictly regulated.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
I can’t continue being in and out of the psychiatric hospitals while I raise him, and, unfortunately, with a psychosis, going to the hospital is the only choice, at least where I have been living, in Belgium, the Netherlands and England. It was in 2008 that I tried to enter the Abbey in Brussels, in order to get help.
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.
Mad in America
AUGUST 7, 2024
Carl Elliott : That story begins in the summer of 2008. A young man named Dan Markingson was brought to our university’s teaching hospital in the throes of a psychotic episode. She said, “Look, you can look at the hospital records, the depositions, anything you want to look at from that litigation.
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