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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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Psychiatric Patients Restrained at Sky-High Rates at This L.A. Hospital

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From the Los Angeles Times : “When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. ‘I have nightmares I’m being restrained,’ said Laidler, who has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

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For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. We learned that hospital detox programs do not safely taper benzos, but Matt was desperate and decided to apply.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In research circles, he’s known as the founder and executive director of the controversial Stanley Medical Research Institute, which has spent more than $550 million on biological research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the past few decades.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony

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His mother has remained Tony’s main caregiver while she has watched him decline over the years from the continuous drugs prescribed for diagnoses that also include schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, mood disorder, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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When the incident occurred, my panic-stricken mother told my father to take me to the hospital right away. Dr. Fulmer quickly pumped the drugs out of my stomach and told my father I would not have lived if he had tried to get me to the hospital. which questioned the rising cases of young children diagnosed with bipolar disorder.