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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

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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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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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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.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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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.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

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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?

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Who Can Consent to Research—and What Does That Mean for Forced Treatment?

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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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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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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.

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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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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.