2023 Hospitality Self-awareness 
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
JUNE 17, 2024
I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas. Broken trust It wasn’t just the doctors I’d lost trust in.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
As if to prove my point, a CNN article published one year later on October 31, 2023 reported the following: “People with severe psychological distress were more likely than others to have heard of 988 and to have used the lifeline, according to research published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. I decided to focus on self-injury this time.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Time to put up, I began writing… They rode in silence to Fair Oaks Hospital, parents aching for the recovery of a broken child. You must trust us to treat him in the way we know best; otherwise he could be in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Is what my family encountered truly different, better now than 50 years ago?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023.
Mad in America
JANUARY 31, 2025
Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. On the 3rd of October 2023 when he went to hospital for the last time I had a meeting with my soon-to-be PhD supervisor, online. When will they self-reflect on the nature of their care?
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
Then in 2023, Ed Pigott and his co-researchers, utilizing the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative, conducted a reanalysis of STAR*D, which was published in BMJ. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?”
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