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.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

It really hit me when he came home in 2009. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. 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. But then, I started noticing changes in his behavior.

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Insurance Sleep and mental health Legal Education 131

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2024

S wapnil Gupta is an Associate Professor and Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. She is also a part of the editorial board of the Community Mental Health Journal. Unfortunately, Seroquel is prescribed just for sleep on many occasions. That’s an egregious thing to do.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. When I checked the Danish prices in 2009, the rejuvenated drug cost 19 times as much for a daily dose as the original drug. 6:224 This enormous price difference should have deterred the doctors from using escitalopram, but it didn’t.

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