Aging and mental health Events Hospitality 
Mad in America
OCTOBER 18, 2024
I n 1986 I had my first experience spending time in a hospital. My next memory was waking up in the hospital and being told to try and remain still under the X-ray machine. All I could understand at that age was I got hurt, I was in the hospital and everyone wanted to help.
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.
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Mad in America
MARCH 13, 2025
And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults.
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
In public health, we talk about death. We aim to protect, preserve, and promote the health of individuals and their communities. We don’t examine the health effects of this person’s absence. In this sense, it’s odd that we rarely think about death as an exposure with downstream health risks.
Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
The mania, paranoia, delusional thoughts and rage I’d been experiencing in the days and weeks leading up to this event became an untenable crisis. My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. I built a new support system.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
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