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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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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. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. I was shocked.

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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He was confused, not fully out of the psychotic episode that had landed him in the hospital weeks before. The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like.

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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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I had been sent to a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary after my 2 nd violent mugging; I wasn’t eating or sleeping. I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. My mental health went down fast this time. Nobody talked about self-harm back then.

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

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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. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor.