Aging and mental health Hospitality Workshop 
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.” We need pills, but we need much more.”
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Kasdan is a longtime business and technology writer who pivoted to memoir writing on a quest to tell her sister’s story, joining the Westport Writers’ Workshop. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? She was in and out of the hospital. She was still feisty.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 23, 2023
S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. They’re too entangled with control, coercion, sanism, and violence.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
An account of the abuse he suffered after being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility at age 15 and the long journey toward joy and awe that followed, his memoir was published this spring by Penguin Random House. If you don’t mind, if we could start with the chair—with your hospitalization. How did this story start?
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
As a person with lived experience (PWLE) who spent years cycling in and out of hospitals, I had avoided working in them throughout my career. FOR’s definition of “family” is broad, including both relatives and friends of the people who were viewed as struggling with their mental health. Until then. Families need support.
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