Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

People are often started on them during inpatient hospitalizations and there are many reasons to believe that the dose a person is on at discharge is not the MED. Hospital stays are brief and doses are increased rapidly. Moncrieff has discussed the findings in a blog post.

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Doctors In Distress Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The post Fairfield Hospital Memorial Tree planted on 24th June 2024 appeared first on Doctors in Distress. As trees teach us when they weather the storm That bright days are still to come, youll be back on form Hang in there now, and you will soon see The peace, hope and shelter, just as this tree.

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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. I worked a lot.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. But I remained well, and finally, the detention order was lifted. Our children were furious.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

The morning after surgery, two residents came into my room, cursorily examined me, asked me how I was feeling, and then began telling me about medications while I was in the hospital. This conversation could be scheduled either during a pre-surgery office visit or in the hospital before discharge. What was going on?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

T his past spring, the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center in Norway, a private hospital that offered medication-free care to Norwegian psychiatric patients, had to close due to a governmental decision to stop public funding for private enterprises. Now, the medication free-ward in Åsgård Hospital in Tromsø is threatened with closure.

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Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2024

Katinka ended up in a private psychiatric hospital in central London, Florence Nightingale. Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey. She became convinced she had stabbed and killed her two children, Lily and Oscar, 12 and 11 years old, respectively.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I have written academic/scholarly articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, position papers, blogs, newspaper articles, and workbooks. I experienced the good and the worst in terms of the mental health care I received.

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

By the time we got to our clinical studies and spent most of our time rotating around the various specialities in the local hospitals, we were well used to being subjected to belittling treatment at the hands of our superiors. The prospect of spending time in the large institution, Springfield Psychiatric Hospital in Tooting, was scary.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital.”

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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? Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

At one point, the counselor called back and indicated a hospital would take her. Please, I told her, I need a bit of sleep before I drive her there, as the hospital was some 110 miles away. I was told she would be taken directly to the hospital. Two days later, after yet more complications, mother was settled into the hospital.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 1862, the Oregon legislature passed its first civil commitment statute, which defined the standard for forced hospitalization. The court would order the persons hospitalization. A movement based on this in the United States was soon led by Dorothea Dix and others, who eventually founded the Friends Hospital in Pennsylvania.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. I lived a normal life without any medication until mid-2020 when I had another episode and was taken to another hospital where I was admitted but ran away the next day to another town because I believed what I needed was prayer.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this blog, he addresses benzodiazepines and whether substance abuse disorders should be considered brain diseases. Joseph Hospital. As all psychologists, I was on the Allied staff at the hospital and my access to hospital patients could be terminated without cause. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me. I want to start my story at the end. This holiday has been amazing. I saw no way out. After I was discharged lithium had been added on top of continuing olanzapine.

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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 28, 2024

I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He was escorted him out of the clinic, handcuffed to a gurney in an ambulance, and taken to our county’s mental hospital. When I was finally permitted to see him three days later, he was lying on the ground in the hospital’s rec room, alone, shaking from the side effects of the Haldol they had given him.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 1931, Horatio Pollock, of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, conducted a long-term study of 2,700 depressed patients hospitalized from 1909 to 1920. Indeed, the BMJ information page for Pigott’s article states there have been eight “blogs” written about the RIAT reanalysis. The major media has remained silent.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He was admitted to hospital several times and spoke openly about his experiences with the aim of improving the treatment that people with autism receive when they meet the psychiatric system. Silas also got the ministry to commit to making an effort to improve the treatment of people with autism. This should be done in all countries.

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Mad in America

MARCH 23, 2024

Since then, I started to see myself as a survivor after understanding that I had suffered several forms of violence during the psychiatric hospitalizations to which I was subjected, as well as developing several health problems due to having taken psychiatric drugs since I was 16 years old.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Time to put up, I began writing… They rode in silence to Fair Oaks Hospital, parents aching for the recovery of a broken child. You must trust us to treat him in the way we know best; otherwise he could be in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Is what my family encountered truly different, better now than 50 years ago?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects. It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony went off prescription drugs in September 2021, when he was released from the hospital with none, though he was on them while being held there. At a support group I attend, a mother said her son had been in the hospital for five years and now he is doing so much better and is out traveling. Do you believe race played a role?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. When Patricia doesnt take her medicine Linda has to take time off work as a housekeeper to escort her to the local public hospital where theyre only able to stabilize her in the short-term. My mom takes handfuls of pills, she tells me.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this blog, well explore the telehealth advantages and disadvantages, comparing them with in-person care to help you decide which option works best for your situation. Higher Costs for Medical Care In-person healthcare visits can be costly due to consultation fees, hospital charges, and transportation expenses.

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

Hospitalized at a Christian institution called Bethel, diagnosed schizophrenic, Buck was sterilized under the Nazi law for prevention of hereditary diseases. took me to the Gilead hospital. This second excerpt describes Buck’s fifth hospitalization in 1959. Early in the morning, Nurse M.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Insurance 109

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.”

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Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Insurance 106

Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the delusions of psychiatry. 639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Think about this: people with psychosis are locked in hospitals against their will and forcibly injected with tranquilizing drugs because psychiatry says that they are not capable of making their own treatment decisions. How, then, could they miss that capacity when they locked them in the hospital and drugged them against their will?

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We reviewed words and phrases (too many to fit into this blog) used in service delivery, policy and academic papers. With the new governments focus on shifting health care away from critical care in hospitals to preventative care in communities, the expertise of peers is crucial in other ways.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. He left the hospital assessment clinic with an autism misdiagnosis and a recommendation for placement in an autism kindergarten. Five-year-old Joe had a word-processing problem.

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Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. So she goes back to the hospital to ask for a recommendation. My skull had been fractured in a nightclub and then a year later I was ‘jumped’ by three men as I walked near my home at 6 o’clock in the evening.

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