Mad in America

JANUARY 21, 2025

I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. I always found it important to make friends if I was in a hospital (a few times). We would exchange clothes and beauty products and just laugh at almost everything in the hospital. As with Sam, we met in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 14, 2025

Every year on March 30th, we observe World Bipolar Day, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness, challenging stigma, and promoting understanding about bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. Upon reaching the hospital, I was greeted by two desk clerks. I was asked for my ID, insurance, and other things that hospital staff typically ask of a patient. That was the beginning of the beginning. I’ll call him Carlos.

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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 am a social gerontologist, a former Board member of the MHRB of Ashland County, and older adult. I experienced the good and the worst in terms of the mental health care I received.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Back then, during my hospitalization at the eating disorder clinic, borderline personality disorder was one of those common diagnoses. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. As fate would have it, the clinic’s psychiatrist had recently inaugurated the very first inpatient program for eating disorders.

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Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2024

This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes. Both were eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My other sister eventually became pregnant out of wedlock in college. Both got on medication.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He was confined to a mental hospital in Jena and then nursed at home by his mother and sister until his death. In an attempt to convince others and himself that he was, after all, a heterosexual, he told the personnel of the Jena mental hospital where he was confined that his wife Cosima Wagner had brought him there.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. I saw a lot of distressing things when I was very young and into my 20s. It makes sense that that a young psyche would go to extreme lengths to manage the stress.

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My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You can now chat with one of our providers online for a variety of different conditions, including: Depression Anxiety disorders ADHD & Substance abuse Addiction Alcohol abuse Insomnia Dementia or memory loss Bipolar disorder Our providers serve patients from teenage years to geriatric and older adults.

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Solara Mental Health

JUNE 10, 2022

Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions Many Veterans with Substance Use Disorder often have a co-occurring mental health disorder. These disorders may include PTSD, anxiety, or depression. Those injured during combat, hospitalized, or experienced trauma have a greater risk for increased drug or alcohol use.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital.

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Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

It is a key feature of bipolar disorder symptoms and can significantly impact a persons ability to function. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition that requires a combination of medication, cognitive behavioral therapy, and lifestyle changes for effective treatment.

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Mad in America

JUNE 7, 2024

—“Medical History #2,” The Bearable Slant of Light I n the first intake documents from my son’s first hospitalization, the attending psychiatrist wrote: “On examination, the patient presents as a very poor historian.” What happened next, of course: hospitalizations and more medications. The only way to tell it, for me, is poetry.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When the incident occurred, my panic-stricken mother told my father to take me to the hospital right away. Dr. Fulmer quickly pumped the drugs out of my stomach and told my father I would not have lived if he had tried to get me to the hospital. which questioned the rising cases of young children diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasn’t just the break—it was what happened in the hospital.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. I remember when my sister would go into hospital, people would be like, oh, that’s great, now she’ll get the help she needs, says Hough.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

In todays world, a psychotic homosexual would probably be taken to a mental hospital and given antipsychotic drugs with their devastating side effects. It resulted in my becoming a schizophrenic and being hospitalized in mental hospitals for fifteen months. This torture lasted two years. This, I believe, goes a little too far.

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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

Although anxiety and depressive conditions may be triggered by environmental stressors, they also may reflect disorders in your brain chemistry, so an individual may respond positively to antidepressants, beta blockers, or benzodiazepines. They are essential for managing mental health conditions like bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2024

It is not uncommon to come across rightfully indignant comments from people who have been ascribed such psychotic labels that “Having bipolar disorder doesn’t excuse you from being a criminal!” They are and always have been in full control of their actions. or “Schizophrenic people aren’t inherently prone to violence!”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I have told myself so often that if I had stayed in America instead of leaving it forever at the age of twenty-two, I would probably have spent my entire life going in and out of mental hospitals, being treated by numerous incompetent psychiatrists and taking antipsychotic medicine with its devastating side effects. Exile is the best option.

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