Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I Gretchen didn’t take the cue to move on from the self-injury talk, and kept pushing, and centering the responsibility for my ‘safety’ in others, rather than myself. Right now self injuring is helping.”

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. Be it politicians, hospital managers, welfare bureaucrats, supervisory bodies, children’s services, psychiatrists, doctors or psychologists.

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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. We don’t know.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. 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. The major media has remained silent.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic. or so for the hospital costs).

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck. link] Addendum: As any reader of this blog can attest I do not consider homicide as a solution to any problem.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. Childrens Hospital, the hardware store.

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Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Note that this blog post is full of spoilers youve been warned! Sean just landed in the hospital after getting into a fight. Gaby is aware of her anxious attachment style: she says to Derrick she gets scared when she lets other people in, and then pushes them away. We left off at Episode 6: In a Lonely Place. Tears in the eye.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

But when your sense of self is built through other people, cutting them off is not that easy In a place like India, it’s very common to just keep people you hate close to you. Because of this, theyre often aware of problems in the psychiatric field that clinicians in Western countries remain blind to.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The implications for therapeutic intervention were discussed in the previous blog.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. They have no awareness of the dormant forces within them awaiting recognition and activation, because the emphasis is to look outside of oneself for comfort and relief. I believe that because we each have our own resilient Spirit, we are creators.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, he wrote a Mad in America blog, “What if the Folly Is in Us, Too?” I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. At 16 she was forcefully hospitalized and became tethered to psychiatry for the rest of her life. Those endeavours became Bay St.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Peer respites are an innovative and cost effective alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, and these resources are badly needed across the country. Sera Davidow did a fantastic job laying out the crux of these controversies in another recent blog post.

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