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“I Nearly Destroyed Myself Mentally and Physically Working at the Wrong Jobs”

ADDitude

Think: EMTs, firefighters, police officers, and hospital emergency room staff. Free Download: 8 Dream Jobs for Adults with ADHD ] Career Ideas from ADDitude Readers People with ADHD told ADDitude magazine about the jobs they liked best. I work from home as a hospital billing team lead. I am a school psychologist.

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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens

Mad in America

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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I Am Looking for People I Miss

Mad in America

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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From Auctions to Moral Treatment

Mad in America

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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“What Matters to You?” – An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”

Mad in America

I mentioned this proposal in a recent article in Asylum magazine as a response to polarised debates about the use of antidepressants. 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.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

I have found these “miracle drug breakthroughs” have in common a consistent pattern, one of which is a major cover story in a national magazine, in this case Time magazine. The Time magazine cover story reads “Depression afflicts 16 million Americans. or so for the hospital costs). A surprising new drug may change that”.

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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

He went to the hospital—subdued and in custody—for his wounds, and I went to the hospital for mine. I rushed to the closet and loaded a magazine into a rifle, terrified that the attackers were coming, that they would force me to choose who in my family would die. I heard another gunshot go off; he shot at my back as I ran away.