Mad in America

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

I was in the hospital with an undiagnosable physical illness that presented with multiple, some would say peculiar, symptoms. I probably would have died in the psych hospital because they refused to let me go to the medical hospital for a feeding tube. And none of it was true—not even close. Why is this allowed to happen?

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

To make the megamachine work efficiently, people are dehumanized to be machine cogs, and Mumford describes the structure that makes it possible for authoritarian control over large populations be it in a labor machine, a military machine, a school machine, or a healthcare machine. There are of course different experiences of the megamachine.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

New Study Exposes the Trauma of Involuntary Psychiatric Detention In July, Richard Sears, wrote about a recent study highlighting the negative experiences of involuntary psychiatric hospital admissions, revealing deep-seated issues of racism, discrimination, and lack of support within the mental healthcare system.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After two horrific days of my friends and family trying to get me into the hospital, during which time I was fully lucid but believed the world was ending and awful things were being done to my family, I was finally admitted to a local psychiatric ward, diagnosed with bipolar, and kept in for 10 days.

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Mad in America

JUNE 25, 2024

Universal Healthcare with Community Care: free, accessible, culturally sensitive care delivered by peers who are from the community and who understand the lived experience of SMI. calls “permitted dependencies” like public transportation to include healthcare and housing. We need systemic solutions.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. No lettersbefore or after my name. Siem: Why dont you introduce us to your son?

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Mad in America

AUGUST 23, 2024

She spent three years living with us, in and out of short stays in psychiatric hospitals, getting more and more depressed. Mel was drinking more than we knew, and once, when she was drunk and staying with a male friend, I persuaded her to call a local famous mental hospital. And that is when the window of opportunity closed.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This database includes information on diagnoses, prescriptions, lab results, healthcare contacts, and referrals. 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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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. But I remained well, and finally, the detention order was lifted. Our children were furious.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

The morning after surgery, two residents came into my room, cursorily examined me, asked me how I was feeling, and then began telling me about medications while I was in the hospital. Well, we’re giving you oxycodone, extra strength Tylenol, an antinausea medication, lidocaine patches, and we’d like to add some gabapentin for nerve pain.”

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In a recent article , however, I examined the research-base, finding that outcome monitoring is less helpful than is generally thought, and how its growing predominance can be attributed to sociopolitical influences in our healthcare systems.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

As a result there are few services available at the primary healthcare facilities the majority of South Africans rely on when theyre unwell, and government isnt in the position to prioritize the training of black psychologists who, speaking indigenous languages, would be able to reach the rural poor most neglected by the system.

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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. How did I accomplish this, you may ask?

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

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony went off prescription drugs in September 2021, when he was released from the hospital with none, though he was on them while being held there. At a support group I attend, a mother said her son had been in the hospital for five years and now he is doing so much better and is out traveling. Do you believe race played a role?

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

He was confused, not fully out of the psychotic episode that had landed him in the hospital weeks before. The presence of this screening in healthcare settings is relatively new, and an example of an initiative aimed at improving services. He seemed to think it would help him get cash assistance, but this was just a therapy intake.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Healthcare is evolving rapidly, offering patients the flexibility to choose between in-person medical visits and telehealth consultations. While traditional face-to-face healthcare has long been the standard, telemedicine services have revolutionized how people access care. But which one is better? Advantages of In-Person Treatments 1.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

After all these years in psychiatry, it’s programmed into my DNA that healthcare professionals don’t want me well and I’ve been avoiding healthcare as much as possible for several years now. I stared straight ahead, out the window that faced another part of the hospital. Unless absolutely necessary.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Providing long-term shelter without strings attached does not pay dividends to Governor Newsom’s healthcare industry donors. Forcing hospitalization on those who don’t want it is more expensive, more traumatizing, and creates worse outcomes than housing first, in addition to potentially increasing the risk of suicide.

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Mad in America

JULY 26, 2024

He went to the hospital—subdued and in custody—for his wounds, and I went to the hospital for mine. I realize how crucial it is for healthcare professionals to understand the complexities of trauma and the risks of overmedication. I heard another gunshot go off; he shot at my back as I ran away. Our people deserve better.

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Mental Health America (MHA)

MAY 25, 2023

Efforts were focused on promoting and supporting the emotional and mental well-being of frontline healthcare workers and healthcare workers in a supportive role and equip them to overcome challenges created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental Health America is in a unique position because of its federated affiliate model.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One person exclaimed: I am not troubled by the increase in hospitalizations. The upside of the involuntary hospitalization numbers is that fewer people are likely dead of suicide. For Emily, her #988 call led quickly to involuntarily hospitalization that lasted for 50 hours. Many others are receiving the care they need.

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 130

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

2 These findings echoed the results of an earlier study of people with mood disorders that found having comorbid ADHD was associated with a higher risk of suicide, more frequent hospitalizations, more recurrent episodes, and an earlier onset of depression. Thus, taking both medications may increase risk of high blood pressure.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I watched TMZ last night and they were fascinated about the homicide of Brian Thompson the CEO of United Healthcare in New York City the night before. She made some posts about healthcare companies. She went on to say that United Healthcare has murdered tens of thousands of Americans by denying healthcare.

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Solara Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clinic and military hospital policies and guidelines may vary from those outlined in this document. Non-Emergency Mental Health Care Healthcare consumers do not need pre-authorization or a referral for substance use disorder (SUD) or outpatient mental health care. Federal laws and public law govern TRICARE benefits and policies.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

I was hospitalized two or three times in a psychiatric unit. When I was in the hospital, I got peer support. It has to stop because its contributing to abuse in the healthcare system. I went through a lot of self-exploration, figuring out what my correct diagnosis was and also getting that affirmed by a professional.

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My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Telemedicine is transforming the way we connect with healthcare providers, making it easier for you to access the support you need from the comfort of your home. Telemedicine allows you to have meaningful, face-to-face conversations with your healthcare provider, even if youre miles away.

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Credible Mind

MARCH 6, 2025

CredibleMind, under Van Brunts leadership, provides organizations like employers, health plans, hospitals, and health departments with a mental health information system designed to promote emotional wellbeing and mental health. His expertise has earned him several awards, including the Health 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award in 2022.

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: Hopefully this essay will motivate AG Mayes’s staff to let her know of the dumpster fires burning in Arizona’s mental hospitals. This is the story of one such barber. The first patient arrives: “Hello, Theodoric of York.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

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Doctors In Distress Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

Several months later, we were all sat in front of the Neurologist at Queen Square Hospital in London (where my brother also worked) and my mum was given the diagnosis of Alzheimers Disease at the age of 68. She said it was a lonely time living in hospital accommodation, she missed her family dearly.

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Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2017, a lovely doctor friend set up a movement called, Permitted to Pause encouraging doctors, nurses and healthcare workers to find and share ways of maintaining balance in their caring profession. He would go from clinic to hospital and into the African bush to care for patients. Thats 4 healthcare workers every week.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Dr Lorcan Martin, a consultant in general adult psychiatry, was speaking ahead of his address to non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) in psychiatry at the College of Psychiatrists annual conference, Navigating Psychiatry in a Changing World: A Look at How We Can Embrace the Future, which takes place in Dublin today (Friday).

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Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

by Dr Anna Baverstock and Dr Jess Morgan Dr Anna Baverstock is a consultant community paediatrician at Somerset Hospitals Foundation Trust and lead for senior doctor wellbeing @anna_annabav Dr Jess Morgan is a paediatrician and Dinwoodie RCPCH Clinical fellow @doc_bipolar The workplace experiences of doctors in the UK continue to be very concerning.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Over 500 inmates found themselves uprooted, some returned to families, others to state-run hospitals. “Nobody wanted to be in the hospitals anymore, so they all came back and began to live here again,” Syed Ruknudeen Ibrahim, a shrine trustee, told Scroll. lakhs on healthcare,” she explained. “We spent Rs 3.5

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

There is continuing discrimination in the workplace and in healthcare settings. Beyond individual accounts there are heaps of formal research data that point to damaging effects upon family life and access to housing, and upon friendships, intimate relationships and attitudes to childcare. or they might react with “Help!”

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 14, 2025

Types of Bipolar Disorder Bipolar I Disorder Severe manic episodes that may require hospitalization, often accompanied by depressive episodes. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before making any decisions regarding your mental health treatment. What is World Bipolar Day?

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