Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. A nurse was assigned to watch over me. I was terribly uncomfortable, and over and over I begged her to release me. Finally, after a considerable time, I was released.
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