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.

Hospitality 127

Hospitality Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 127

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. Earlier in the year, in January of 2024, my father passed away.

Sleep and mental health 107

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 107

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. This shut down can result in complete immobilization or a fear of such immobilization, both of which are psychologically painful, and this can result in the pain of self-loathing and shame.

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

She is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health (Routledge, 2024). Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Mind-body connection Nonprofits Education 126

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck. December 5, 2024. She sees this as a revolution and it is a problem that should be addressed without violence.

Insurance 52

Insurance Healthcare Manufacturing Self-awareness 52

Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Published on January 3, 2024 by Zencare Team. Sean just landed in the hospital after getting into a fight. Gaby is aware of her anxious attachment style: she says to Derrick she gets scared when she lets other people in, and then pushes them away. Written by David Rothman, LCSW and Allegra Balmadier, Content Manager at Zencare.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Hospitality 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

Trauma and the brain 144

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 144