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.

Aging and mental health 75

Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder Hospitality Personality disorders 75

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. 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.

Trauma and the brain 141

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Personality disorders Self-awareness 141

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. Borderline Personality Disorder “No Longer Has a Place in Clinical Practice” Image depicts the thoughts and behaviors typically associated with BPD.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 144

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 144

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. What had happened to the norm?

Hospitality 145

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 145

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?

Pharmaceuticals 112

Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Education Personality disorders 112

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. The Cult of Trauma This proliferation has given rise to what’s often called a cult of trauma , where sharing personal stories of suffering is glorified and sensationalized.

Resilience and coping 141

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 141

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. She had left with 10 diagnoses including learning difficulties, borderline personality disorder and PTSD and multiple medications.

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Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 141