Psychology Today

MAY 6, 2024

A look at if and when long-term therapy is worth it, an for whom.

242

242

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. I spent my days crying — if not crying, I was thinking about how my presence in space and time was inherently burdening others. Not to mention, I was failing all my classes, and my GPA for my first semester of college was a measly.5 on the 4.0 scale. I was a failure. The breaking point was my 20th call to the national suicide hotline in three months; I had told the woman, while I sobbed, that I felt like a burden to

Hospitality 134

Hospitality Bipolar disorder Construction Insurance 134

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MAY 8, 2024

Only a week left until the deadline for the World Psychiatric Association 2024 Medical Student Essay Competition to attend the 24th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry in Mexico City, Mexico Back in March this year, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) launched its much-anticipated Medical Student Essay Competition , a WPA Presidential initiative with the support of the United Nations Secretariat Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development Goals.

52

52

Harmony United Psychiatric Care

MAY 6, 2024

Why is Open Communication Important? Creating a Safe Space for Conversations Starting the Conversation Thoughtfully What to Look For? Beyond the Basics – Addressing Specific Concerns Depression Anxiety Eating Disorder(S) Substance Abuse Social Media & Technology Strategies for Different Communication Styles Let Harmony United Psychiatric Care Help You!

Eating disorders 52

Eating disorders Technology 52

Reidbord's Reflections

MAY 4, 2024

The application of palliative care to intractable psychiatric disorders has been debated at least since 2010, when a journal article reported that a patient with severe anorexia nervosa died in hospice, after referral there by her psychiatrist. The New York Times published a thought-provoking article earlier this year on the same topic: whether we [.

52

52

Mad in America

MAY 7, 2024

T he words that follow in this essay come from my own personal reflections as someone who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and who has experienced psychosis many times throughout life. Therefore, I would like the reader to know that these thoughts are based on my own beliefs and experiences and are not necessarily based on verifiable objective facts.

131

131

Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

“It seemed to me that all language is an excess of language” —Samuel Beckett A s an urban community mental health therapist, part of my job is meeting with new intakes and completing their comprehensive assessment—their first step in getting connected to a primary therapist and psychiatrist, and a document they’ll need if they apply for any special programs.

Insurance 126

Insurance Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Legal 126

Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

I hear the music again. It’s my mother singing through the clay earth from her grave the way she sang from her bed at the asylum until they shut her up. I move to the tune one thousand miles from her coffin, my body dipping this way and that as if I’m a hummingbird in one of her Fabergé eggs, forever bobbing at honeysuckle. My body stiffens. I’ve been betrayed by the sweetness she still conjures from her insulin-soaked life, those days doctors and nurses drowned her with sugar water until she fe

89

89

Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. As of 2023, such laws were on the books in 47 states and the District of Columbia—leaving just Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland as holdouts.

Poverty and mental health 127

Poverty and mental health Legal Self-awareness Nonprofits 127