Events Global mental health Hospitality 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
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Mad in America
JANUARY 17, 2025
Soon after mentioning these experiences to my local doctor and the minister of the church I attended, I was certified insane and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Despite my best efforts, however, I was in and out of psychiatric hospitals for short stays on many occasions over the next fourteen years.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 8, 2025
I was hospitalized two or three times in a psychiatric unit. I was incarcerated twice for my mental illness because the delusions were severe enough that I became out of control, and I received mental health probation. When I was in the hospital, I got peer support. Im a strong believer in self-exploration.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Even more concerning is the potential for this trend to be exported to non-Western cultures, as has happened with the diagnostic model under the much-criticised Movement for Global Mental Health. This appears to be a real, although currently not widespread, possibility, as discussed here.
Mad in America
JUNE 29, 2024
The theme of the conference was public mental health. It was a star-studded event, with prominent figures from world psychiatry in attendance. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals.
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