Bipolar disorder Blog Hospitality 
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. This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel.
Mad in America
MARCH 13, 2025
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. It was a warlike situation; we couldn’t leave the ward, we couldn’t leave the hospital, and we were all stuck inside there.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
I am also a trauma survivor, an individual labeled with Bipolar Disorder, who struggled with suicidal ideation. I have written academic/scholarly articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, position papers, blogs, newspaper articles, and workbooks.
Mad in America
JANUARY 11, 2024
His mother has remained Tony’s main caregiver while she has watched him decline over the years from the continuous drugs prescribed for diagnoses that also include schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, mood disorder, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Who knows more about the subject of this blog, they or I? He was confined to a mental hospital in Jena and then nursed at home by his mother and sister until his death. I tell myself that most philosophers and theologians are totally ignorant of these phenomena. My diagnosis of schizophrenia is not without controversy.
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