Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This entails us sitting with discomfort and uncertainty, instead of (for example) forcibly admitting people to hospital psychiatric units against their wishes. It can make the mental health system less of a perceived threat, and more of an entrusted, safe resource and tool.

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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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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Other collaborators include the Swiss Brain Health Initiative and the University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Bern (UPD). Research: Facilitating cutting-edge research projects in global mental health, with a focus on LMICs. Authors: Prof. Danuta Wasserman, President, WPA Prof.

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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. It is characterized by extreme mood fluctuations, including manic episodes (high energy, impulsivity) and depressive episodes (low energy, sadness, hopelessness).

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It also seems to me that if it is found that someone tried to commit suicide or may try to commit suicide, and is unconscious, it seems to me that this could allow measures that really save people’s lives, but not to hospitalize them, not to drug them.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 26, 2023

‘Unfortunately, in many hospitals, the door only swings one way,’ Davidson says. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine” appeared first on Mad In America. ‘You become a patient, and you stay a patient.’

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