Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Among them is Paris Hilton, who first told her story in a 2020 documentary and is now lobbying for recently introduced legislation to stop the abuse.

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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. Harding, R.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

The morning after surgery, two residents came into my room, cursorily examined me, asked me how I was feeling, and then began telling me about medications while I was in the hospital. According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 81,000 people died of overdoses in 2020, most of which were accidental.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

The first Mental State of the World Reportreleased by The Global Mind Project , which has hosted online surveys examining global trends in mental wellness since 2020, found respondents from South Africa and the UK had the poorest mental health of the 64 countries represented. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We have been living through historic times of death, dying, and loss since 2020. Bereaved persons have an increased risk of mortality, hospitalization, and clinical depression 0-6 months after a loss. By viewing death as an exposure, we can move to better understand the health consequences of grief and bereavement for all of us.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

For Watson, the focus on schizophrenia came when his son experienced a crisis at age 15, including a suicide attempt and a runaway scare, along with being diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for six months.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.

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Mad in America

JUNE 21, 2024

Then a small package arrived, which we opened—it was Cody’s new prescription for risperidone from Hines VA Hospital in Chicago. Cody with his wife and daughters, Christmas 2020 I remembered seeing bottles of pills in the basement where Cody kept many of his things. We went down there and counted them.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

I spent the next three months in and out of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for substance use and post-traumatic stress. In April of 2020, while I was transitioning out of the military, another new (to me) VA provider prescribed Sertraline (Zoloft) to replace the Lexapro they’d had me on since 2018.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ Exuberance Unchecked by Reality In “What Can Physicians Learn from Benjamin Rush, Blood, and the Red Cross?” ( Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities , 2020), Ryan Hill notes , “Despite the adamant opposition he encountered from many of his contemporaries, Dr. Benjamin Rush was undeterred.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The CRPD declared that people with disabilities should enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as everyone else, and, in essence, declared that forced treatment and forced hospitalization should end. In 2020, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture took up the issue of forced treatment in psychiatry.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A 2016 Cochrane review concluded that there was insufficient evidence that regularly administering surveys contributed to patient improvements in primary care, and an updated review in 2020 concluded similarly that the scores from these surveys needed to be ‘interpreted with caution’.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

2 These findings echoed the results of an earlier study of people with mood disorders that found having comorbid ADHD was associated with a higher risk of suicide, more frequent hospitalizations, more recurrent episodes, and an earlier onset of depression. American Society of Psychopharmacology Annual Meeting.; May 28-31, 2024. Poster W80.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This represents a significant shift in PTSD diagnoses from predominantly affecting men in the 1980s, when men constituted about 70% of diagnosed cases, to now predominantly affecting women, who by 2020 made up 70% of diagnosed cases. It also focuses on fostering trust through transparency and peer support.

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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 27, 2023

Looking back, I think my friends did the only thing that they thought could help — having an intervention and convincing me to voluntarily admit myself to the hospital. Stimulant medication is currently highly overprescribed — some prescriptions for medications have increased by nearly 4450% from 2020 to 2022.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A common notice in hospital patients’ charts is: “The patient doesn’t want drugs. In 2020, the UK mental health charity Mind said it signposted people to street drug charities to help them withdraw from depression pills because of the lack of available alternatives. Discharged.” 609 Progress is very slow.

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My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A recent study shows that due to telemedicines advent, there have been 38% reduced hospital admissions, 31% fewer readmissions, and 63% reduced hospital stays. There was a 50% increase in telehealth visits by the end of the first quarter of 2020. Moreover, patients are also seen to be more engaged in their health care.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Approximately one year later in July 2020, the FCC adopted rules to begin establishing #988, and in October of the same year, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act was signed into law. One person exclaimed: I am not troubled by the increase in hospitalizations. Many others are receiving the care they need.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

In 2020, RNA was coded for Covid-19’s protein, resulting in a drug that stimulated the immune response for Covid-19. However, this successful application of the biological/medical paradigm to our physical health was accompanied by a worsening of our mental health.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2020, Hjelmeland et al. Katinka ended up in the private Florence Nightingale psychiatric hospital in London. However, the review did not include the numerous studies or reviews that went against the authors’ dangerous recommendation of drug therapy as suicide prevention. It was exceedingly difficult for Hjelmeland et al.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. The approach “was as successful as anti-psychotic drug treatment in reducing psychotic symptoms in 6 weeks ”. Other projects would take up its model in the US and elsewhere.

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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD – Baylor College of Medicine 2024- Friederike Holze, PhD – University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med.

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The Maryland Psychiatric Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism.

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Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Oh, and she was a junior doctor in 2020 just as the pandemic hit. He would go from clinic to hospital and into the African bush to care for patients. Then there is the highly stressful medical school application process. It was very much an any time, anything, anywhere role.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The virus is aerosolized presumably by coughing, sneezing, and toilet flushing and has been detected in the air around hospitalized patients (8). In a 2013 review, Norovirus was the second most common infection disease outbreak affecting psychiatric hospitals (13). Sources of Airborne Norovirus in Hospital Outbreaks.

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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Previous Recipients 2005 – Stephan Heckers, MD – McLean Hospital 2006 – Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 – Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD – National Institute of Mental Health 2008 – Alexander Neumeister, MD – Yale University and Ramin V.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This survey collects data on demographics, physical exams, clinical/laboratory tests, imaging results, and nutrition from non-hospitalized participants across the US every two years. The authors examined data collected between 1999 and 2020 from females who were at least 20 years old. between 2017 and 2020.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. One lawsuit from about 5-6 years ago was by a man forced to undergo ECT in Connecticut and the case was featured in Reason magazine (Simonson, 2020).

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ The UN Special Rapporteur on torture wrote in 2020 that supposedly benevolent purposes such as medical necessity do not “vindicate” coercive or discriminatory practices. But that number is so swamped. There are so many people needing help.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1966. My mother visited me during those first weeks I was being kept in the hospital seclusion room, and I angrily lashed out at her. She could not see or grasp what the hospital was doing to me behind those hidden locked doors.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

People with ADHD are more likely to get into car accidents, 24 become hospitalized, and engage in self-harmthan are their neurotypical peers. 2020 Sep 22;81(6):19m13130. 5, 6 Scientific research has established no causal link between excessive screen time, video game play, or social media use and ADHD. years , on average.

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Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

This despite the fact that approximately 80 percent of Swedes distance themselves from religion (Stiernstedt, 2020). For many Swedes, there is a difference between religion and spirituality and how it is expressed in everyday life (Stiernstedt, 2020). Angels were everywhere, beautiful and terrifying” (p. Huguelet et al. Cunningham, P.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasn’t just the break—it was what happened in the hospital.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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.

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