Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The study was led by Fiammetta Coscia at the University of Florence and Maastricht University, as well as Virginie-Anne Chouinard at McLean Hospital, and Guy Chouinard at the University of Montreal and McGill University. All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events.

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Hospitality 145

Mad in America

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The current work, headed by Vita Brisnik of LMU University Hospital, also finds long-term use of antidepressants (2 years or more) increased during the same time period. All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter.

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Hospitality 106

Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Cesta of the Karolinska Institute, found similar rates of psychiatric inpatient hospitalization, outpatient visits, and suicidal behavior at 90 days and 1.5 All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events. The current research, led by Carolyn E. Current MIA supporters can log in below.(If

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Hospitality 105

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events. Additionally, this data can be linked to the UK’s Hospital Episode Statistics database and the Office for National Statistics, providing further details on hospital admissions and mortality.

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Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Healthcare 125

Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Trauma refers to an overwhelming, unanticipated danger or event that cannot be mediated or processed by the individual. Traumatic events are a direct threat to a person’s wellbeing. The post Do young children remember traumatic events? To find out more about these programs, Connecticut residents can call 2-1-1.For

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Hospitality 40

Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Subscribers get free access to all Mad in America content and webinar events. Please donate to help us continue our work in 2025 and beyond. You can become a MIA Supporter for $5 per month or $20 annually. Here we highlight the top ten of Mad in Americas most-read blogs and personal stories of 2024.

Genetics and mental health 141

Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Resilience and coping Global mental health 141

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

Trauma and the brain 142

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Personality disorders Self-awareness 142

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

The mania, paranoia, delusional thoughts and rage I’d been experiencing in the days and weeks leading up to this event became an untenable crisis. The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas. They didn’t go away.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 126

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

Resilience and coping 141

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 141

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

By the time we got to our clinical studies and spent most of our time rotating around the various specialities in the local hospitals, we were well used to being subjected to belittling treatment at the hands of our superiors. The prospect of spending time in the large institution, Springfield Psychiatric Hospital in Tooting, was scary.

Trauma and the brain 145

Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. I thought I was feeling the sadness and terror of my circumstances, but the events were over. So she goes back to the hospital to ask for a recommendation. They beat me so hard I ‘knew’ I was going to die.

Resilience and coping 141

Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 141

Mad in America

MARCH 23, 2024

It was in a lecture at an anti-asylum struggle week event that I realized I was wrong. Thus, I was able to elaborate on years of trauma caused by psychiatric hospitalizations and violence suffered by health professionals. I myself had a psychiatric diagnosis, which made perfect sense to me.

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Hospitality Construction 118

Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2025

He said that if I were in the hospital when my court case came up, the judge would probably throw the case out of court. He drove me to the hospital. It was clear to me that the whole succession of events had happened because I was in public disgrace. He was quite firm that I had to face the consequences of my actions.

Retail 105

Retail Sleep and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 105

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

It is fair to say that there had been some cracks forming in my mental health in the years preceding this event. After stopping the antipsychotics, I ended up in Pineview Acute Unit, Porirua Hospital, in August 1995, six months after seeing a psychiatrist, and eight months after my arrest for disorderly behavior.

Hospitality 113

Hospitality Aging and mental health Technology Pharmaceuticals 113

Mad in America

MAY 7, 2024

A new study from Copenhagen University Hospital offers a rare glimpse into the personal experiences of six individuals as they navigate the complex process of tapering their antipsychotic medications. All active donors get full access to all MIA content, and free passes to all Mad in America events.

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Hospitality 115

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.

Healthcare 103

Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Aging and mental health 103

Mad in America

JULY 12, 2024

There was only a small space to record daily events and there are many blanks among the pages. I returned to hospital in late February 2017 and was discharged in early April. I was involved in an art exhibition within the hospital but it seems that I was quite snipey and irritable otherwise.

Hospitality 99

Hospitality Self-awareness Childhood trauma 99

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Time to put up, I began writing… They rode in silence to Fair Oaks Hospital, parents aching for the recovery of a broken child. You must trust us to treat him in the way we know best; otherwise he could be in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Is what my family encountered truly different, better now than 50 years ago?

Hospitality 115

Hospitality Self-awareness Construction Education 115

Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

I’d managed to time the cortisone injections so that I could attend each of those events and be nearly pain-free, but by December when I took a daytrip to DC to see an exhibit on the Titanic, I was in such pain that I couldn’t stand more than five minutes at a time. What was going on?

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Hospitality Education Healthcare 123

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.

Self-awareness 108

Self-awareness Aging and mental health Hospitality Breathing techniques 108

Mad in America

MAY 18, 2024

Other seminars of HVNA have been in mental health hospitals—including on the infamous psychiatric hospital on the island of Leros, which in 1989 became internationally known for the maltreatment of patients and embezzlement of funds. Also seminars have been held with user & family associations, NGOs, and universities.

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Insurance Hospitality Education 99

Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

Hospitalized at a Christian institution called Bethel, diagnosed schizophrenic, Buck was sterilized under the Nazi law for prevention of hereditary diseases. took me to the Gilead hospital. This second excerpt describes Buck’s fifth hospitalization in 1959. Early in the morning, Nurse M.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Insurance 117

Mad in America

JUNE 25, 2024

In a recent NYT o pinion piece it was said that: “Forcible restraints are routine events in American hospitals. They took my mother away that day, to hospitalize and medicate her. Their freedom and survival depend on it. They called my uncle who took custody of us temporarily.

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Hospitality Healthcare 121

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And when studying rare events, it is unacceptable to lose statistical power by including only “recent” trials. 42] Furthermore, twice as many women experienced a core or potential psychotic event. Katinka ended up in the private Florence Nightingale psychiatric hospital in London. 24] Hughes et al.

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Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Insurance 145

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the narrow language of hospital codes, his best translation is “health anxiety”.

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Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Construction Education 143

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Eleven years earlier a deeply damaging romantic relationship had coincided with a series of other stressful events and precipitated a manic episode, which then progressed to psychosis once I was trapped in the terrifying environment of the psychiatric ward. That was in fact my second stint in a locked psychiatric ward. I saw no way out.

Sleep and mental health 112

Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services Aging and mental health 112

Mad in America

OCTOBER 29, 2024

implies that the only reasonable justification for our mental distress is being able to identify difficult life events. Yet, what seemed to matter to the young woman was having her teddy bears with her, to give her comfort and enable her to self-soothe, something the hospital heartbreakingly denied her. What’s happened to you?’

Insurance 138

Insurance Hospitality 138

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The most commonly reported adverse events attributed to discontinuation of alprazolam XR treatment (and other anxiolytics) are anxiety (30%), tremor (28%), dizziness (27%), headache (26%), insomnia (24%), depression (27%), decreased appetite (9.5%), hyperventilation (8.5%), and de-realization (8%). Joseph Hospital.

Healthcare 93

Healthcare Anxiety disorders Hospitality Insurance 93

Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

My brother’s loss was compounded by a series of traumatic events over the next several months. Because I was transitioning between units, I found myself managing simultaneous duties from both the old and new, trying to account for over a thousand Airmen who may have attended the event.

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Insurance Hospitality 109

Mad in America

JULY 26, 2024

Two years earlier, I’d been prescribed a litany of psychiatric drugs as treatment for a life-threatening event I experienced as a San Bernardino Deputy Sheriff. He went to the hospital—subdued and in custody—for his wounds, and I went to the hospital for mine. I grabbed my handgun from my safe and planned to take my own life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 111

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sleep and mental health Hospitality Healthcare 111

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ). standard mental hospital procedures unavoidably violate human rights). … “The international human rights framework requires a transformation in the way mental health services are provided.

Genetics and mental health 145

Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model Legal Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

JUNE 21, 2024

Then a small package arrived, which we opened—it was Cody’s new prescription for risperidone from Hines VA Hospital in Chicago. In fact, throughout his medical records I did not notice any specific treatment plan for PTSD, although he did attend some group events on PTSD management. We went down there and counted them.

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Hospitality 132

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

times more likely to have experienced adverse childhood events than healthy individuals. I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital.” Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. Incorrect interpretations of events, such as a feeling that something which is actually harmless or inoffensive has a direct personal meaning.” 646 You should reply true or false, or yes or no, to nine questions.

Sleep and mental health 119

Sleep and mental health Education Personality disorders Hospitality 119

Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Violence may be the unfortunate consequence (one may try to attack the rope) as one gives way to crazy thoughts, and this is when family call in and the police arrive and one is locked up in the mental hospital with most human rights removed, and then given tranquilizer drugs. Are we able as people to go beyond harmful treatment?

Neurotransmitters and mental health 103

Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 103

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I stared straight ahead, out the window that faced another part of the hospital. I don’t know if there is a custom of modesty in hospitals. He also doesn’t seem to have any further idea of ​​whether there is a low-key custom in hospitals or not, because he had raised his voice several decibels. You old, you free.

Legal 104

Legal Sleep and mental health Hospitality Healthcare 104

Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Moreover, it has been consistently shown that ECT results in serious adverse effects such as “persistent or permanent gaps in life memories, including of weddings and birthdays, somewhere between 12 and 55 per cent,” as reported by psychologist John Read in 2021, who also reported that “one in 50 patients experience ‘major adverse cardiac events.’”

Genetics and mental health 136

Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 136