Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2024

S wapnil Gupta is an Associate Professor and Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. If a careful taper in the past led to a very distressing outcome like hospitalization, if the patient is absolutely not interested in changing their medications, then we leave it at that. These are all constructs.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? She was in and out of the hospital. When she was first hospitalized, and what were some of the changes that you might have seen affecting your sister after she was first put on drugs and committed? Kasdan : Many, many times.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A castaway in the hospital with pneumonia five times from age three months to five years, my only “rescue” was as an infant (presumed to be at d eath’s d oor). The weight of personal accountability for my own grief toppled the facade of “perfect wife and mother,” and collapsed the assumed-identity of Martyr Mom I’d constructed.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. Thomas Insel, after retiring from his dozen years as director of the NIMH, spending 20 billion dollars on biological research, admitted that he had not been able to improve psychiatric treatment outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, or reduce suicide.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

No sooner were their births announced than people began to gather outside the hospital, and then when the city provided them a house to live rent-free for a year, locals would come round the clock, they would peer in the windows even in the middle of the night. Because they cannot see that whiteness is also a construction, right?

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Zencare

JANUARY 2, 2025

Episode 6: In a Lonely Place Synopsis: Seans in the hospital after getting into a fight with the construction workers from the neighborhood. David: Seeing Sean hospitalized after initially trying to do the right thing by confronting his father is heartbreaking. Paul and Jimmy try to speak with Seans dad Tim.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I’m sure they’ll be fine on their own, since I’m only going to be in hospital for 3 days – they might get hungry though!” September I left the ICU after about a week and went into a regular hospital room. This particular hospital had a lot of rabbits living on the grounds. From Kansas.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

How can we build a truly healing hospital that would love, nourish and heal all within, including the professionals who work there? The existing mental health hospitals are radically failing our communities despite the dedication and hard work of those working within them. What do we mean by healing?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. In my small group, a father shared his story of losing his child to suicide, and the dehumanizing treatment their family received at the hospital. Voluntarily.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1966. My mother visited me during those first weeks I was being kept in the hospital seclusion room, and I angrily lashed out at her. She could not see or grasp what the hospital was doing to me behind those hidden locked doors.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 23, 2024

O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” and “How is clinically significant distress analyzed as a construct?” Rather than the client seeking therapy, medication, or hospitalization when they feel it is the right for them, others decide that they “need it.”

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection. I spent a week in the hospital, undergoing testswaiting, thinking.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In our nine years, three times a Seeker has requested the hospital to feel safe from themselves and from hurting others. As tapering progresses, undigested soul experiences surface, colors become brighter, noises sharper and feelings more intense. One of the side effects of Prozac is “danger to oneself or others”.

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Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society. Testimonies from the Psych Wards There were many treatments I found in these archives, including electroshock therapy and widespread aversion therapy in Canadian hospitals. What do I mean by this?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Whether or not that was the case, the Nez Perce have become known as hospitable to those outside their tribes and for having a culture characterized by democratic principles far more advanced than the white culture from which Pelton came. Their leadership was elected and accountable to community councils. But is that the best we can do?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Psychiatry’s mental illness theories are a major component of what Antonio Gramsci described as cultural hegemony —the prevailing cultural beliefs of a society that are social constructs implemented by the ruling class through favored institutions so as to maintain domination.

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