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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa. It is instead: “How can we control ourselves, such that captivity is no longer necessary?” After 2016, my need for hospitalization declined.