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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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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.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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It really hit me when he came home in 2009. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. Fee: He started working with me at the store in the fall of 2009. He wanted to stay in Greensboro because he had a great support group and loved the area. But then, I started noticing changes in his behavior.

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The Death of Joey Marino

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In 1992 he met Anthony Edwards and was his stand-in for the movie Delta Heat , which landed him a permanent role as Anthony’s stand-in on the hit medical show ER from 1997 to 2009. In 2022 he put himself in the hospital to try to get help. At t he hospitals he would go to they’d say he needs to see his primary doctor.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

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Back in 2009 I was incredibly blessed to have a couple of my fellow patients who comforted me, listened to me and took care of me. In October 2009 I was discharged after 3 very long weeks and I quickly concluded that the ‘antipsychotics’ I had been forced to take were numbing my feelings and dulling my thinking in a debilitating way.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

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The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. I was a nobody, and it took a move away from Scotland in 2009 to pull myself out of the quagmire.

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Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

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S wapnil Gupta is an Associate Professor and Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. I moved to the United States in 2009, and when I saw the medication lists, I was quite surprised that the medical lists were so long. Tell us why and when you saw a need for deprescribing in psychiatry.

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2017: My Descent Into Mayhem

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In 2009 I had exited the workforce and entered psychiatry; something I have spoken and written about previously. I returned to hospital in late February 2017 and was discharged in early April. I was involved in an art exhibition within the hospital but it seems that I was quite snipey and irritable otherwise.