Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. It’s the first step toward getting someone involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Emirates Hospitals Group (EHG) to introduce the first repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) based liaison service in the world. The post Exciting New Partnership With Emirates Hospitals Group first appeared on The London Psychiatry Centre.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I n 1986 I had my first experience spending time in a hospital. My next memory was waking up in the hospital and being told to try and remain still under the X-ray machine. All I could understand at that age was I got hurt, I was in the hospital and everyone wanted to help.

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Mad in America

JULY 9, 2024

I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” To what extent is psychiatric hospitalization a legitimate hospitality for a sick person? ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

From The Guardian :Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased risk of hospital admission for mental illness, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind. The study found that air pollution was linked to increased risks of hospital admission for mental health, as well as physical illness.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In a new study , researchers compared people who were hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. She is affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Moran is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School as a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, as is Ongur. Moran is an employee of pharma company Sage Therapeutics.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.

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Doctors In Distress Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The post Fairfield Hospital Memorial Tree planted on 24th June 2024 appeared first on Doctors in Distress. As trees teach us when they weather the storm That bright days are still to come, youll be back on form Hang in there now, and you will soon see The peace, hope and shelter, just as this tree.

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Psychiatry Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

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Mad in America

JUNE 1, 2024

However, none of this is stemming the stream of 988 callers who receive unasked for, unwanted, or unexpected visits from police and emergency medical services (EMS)—and then get taken, with or without consent, to hospitals or crisis centers for mental health evaluations. Where’s the accountability?” A therapist recommended 988.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

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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Mad in America

JUNE 14, 2024

This was a mental hospital — my new home. The hospital of last resort I had run out of options. They said I needed to go to hospital as an inpatient. My mum stayed with me while a nurse showed me around the hospital. Loving mental hospitals might be a mental illness in its own right. He could feel my pain.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

T his past spring, the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center in Norway, a private hospital that offered medication-free care to Norwegian psychiatric patients, had to close due to a governmental decision to stop public funding for private enterprises. Now, the medication free-ward in Åsgård Hospital in Tromsø is threatened with closure.

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. It was a warlike situation; we couldn’t leave the ward, we couldn’t leave the hospital, and we were all stuck inside there. I worked a lot.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From The Independent : “Tens of thousands of sexual assaults and incidents have been reported in NHS -run mental health hospitals as a ‘national scandal ‘ of sexual abuse of patients on psychiatric wards can be revealed. The fact these have taken place in the NHS is chilling.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Thankfully, my sister came to my rescue and the ER staff and hospital psychiatrist saved my life by getting me off the medications you carelessly put me on. We had to learn from the hospital psychiatrist, with his 20 years of practice, that Xanax was making everything worse. I understand that psychiatry is complex and nuanced.

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Mad in America

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2022 he put himself in the hospital to try to get help. From January 2022 to the end of February he was in the hospital in Mississippi until a friend picked him up and brought him back to Los Angeles to get treatment. The doctor at the hospital wanted Joey to do a spinal tap to see if there was something else going on.

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Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2024

Katinka ended up in a private psychiatric hospital in central London, Florence Nightingale. Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey. She became convinced she had stabbed and killed her two children, Lily and Oscar, 12 and 11 years old, respectively.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

From FOX31 Denver KDVR : “When Jonathan Delgado-Concepcion checked himself into Centennial Peaks Hospital on Oct. Instead, the 28-year-old found himself trapped at the behavioral health hospital in Louisville, unable to leave even after he said he felt his mental health was better. What was his plan?” on Tuesday, Nov.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

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. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

At one point, the counselor called back and indicated a hospital would take her. Please, I told her, I need a bit of sleep before I drive her there, as the hospital was some 110 miles away. I was told she would be taken directly to the hospital. Two days later, after yet more complications, mother was settled into the hospital.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. I always found it important to make friends if I was in a hospital (a few times). We would exchange clothes and beauty products and just laugh at almost everything in the hospital. As with Sam, we met in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

” Another video posted to the Coalition to End Psychiatric Harm YouTube channel shows Joey struggling with the movement disorder in the hospital last year. He discussed his disablement on the Walk a Mile in My Shoes podcast, and an Instagram tribute page quotes some of his thoughts on psychiatry.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 1862, the Oregon legislature passed its first civil commitment statute, which defined the standard for forced hospitalization. The court would order the persons hospitalization. A movement based on this in the United States was soon led by Dorothea Dix and others, who eventually founded the Friends Hospital in Pennsylvania.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia addresses medical trauma in the lives of children and families. The post Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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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. This conversation could be scheduled either during a pre-surgery office visit or in the hospital before discharge. What was going on?

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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. It was published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

When these thoughts reached a crisis point in my mind, I was arrested while in this altered state of reality, assessed, and admitted to Pineview, an acute unit at Porirua Hospital in August 1995 following a car chase with local police. In the hospital records I was said to have ‘systematized and persecutory delusions.’

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. Upon reaching the hospital, I was greeted by two desk clerks. I was asked for my ID, insurance, and other things that hospital staff typically ask of a patient. That was the beginning of the beginning. I’ll call him Carlos.

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Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2024

’ That’s how Bri Jackson describes her stay inside a local psychiatric hospital – a stay Bri says never should have happened. But now patients, parents, and employees are coming forward to talk to us about what they say are their experiences with the psychiatric treatment at some local hospitals and with psychiatrist Dr. Nagy Kheir.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. I lived a normal life without any medication until mid-2020 when I had another episode and was taken to another hospital where I was admitted but ran away the next day to another town because I believed what I needed was prayer.

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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

MARCH 30, 2024

The last visit to the ER jolted us to next-level intensity beginning with the ER doctor who traded the Xanax for Klonopin, another benzo, and prescribed Remeron, saying Matt needed to spend the night at the hospital so that they could “make sure he could sleep.” They assured him they would admit him, and I left the hospital.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2025

The conversation continued through tears and trying to conceptualize taking my son to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. Brooks was not surprised when I told him we needed to go to The Brook Hospital. And Mom grabbed my hand and held it as I silently cried in the waiting room of the children’s psychiatric hospital.

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