Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
He said that I had to be taken to my local hospital immediately because I was a danger to myself and others. At my local hospital, the nurses treated me like a criminal. Slamming me onto the hospital bed, two policemen manually restrained my wrists to the unforgiving frame with metal handcuffs. Nothing I said to him mattered.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
SSRI treatment of the anxiety disorders. T he clinical efficacy of SSRIs in treating various anxiety disorders for which these drugs have FDA approval is no better than their record in treating depression. S hould Xanax-type drugs be used for treating stress-anxiety? Joseph Hospital.
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Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax. Two weeks later, both the NP and Matt’s counselor called me and said they must drop Matt as a patient, recommending an outpatient hospital detox program and a “higher level of care.”
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.
Mad in America
JANUARY 16, 2024
None of the problems we think about when we think about mental disorder—mainly depression and the anxiety disorders—are explained by psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm, and not for want of trying. Only Down syndrome, dementia, and brain damage from alcohol and drug abuse fit psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The patient has to come into the hospital or clinic twice a week for four weeks. We are told that these prices compare favorably with the cost of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in a hospital at $25,000.00 or so for the hospital costs). If you think the Spravato drug is expensive you are quite right. according to the maker.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. TIC encourages safe, healing environments because its core principles are based on ensuring physical and emotional safety. It also focuses on fostering trust through transparency and peer support.
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