Hospitality Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Think about this: people with psychosis are locked in hospitals against their will and forcibly injected with tranquilizing drugs because psychiatry says that they are not capable of making their own treatment decisions. How, then, could they miss that capacity when they locked them in the hospital and drugged them against their will?
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
He said that I had to be taken to my local hospital immediately because I was a danger to myself and others. At my local hospital, the nurses treated me like a criminal. Slamming me onto the hospital bed, two policemen manually restrained my wrists to the unforgiving frame with metal handcuffs. Nothing I said to him mattered.
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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. What had happened to the norm?
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities.
Mad in America
MAY 15, 2024
Nardi: It means you serve the person who is paying you. You don’t serve the hospital. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. It’s a basic shift of perspective that can literally change a person’s life. You don’t serve the clinic that hired you.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
The same is true of attempts to reframe other diagnostic labels as ‘identities’—including the most contentious, ‘borderline personality disorder’ which, it is suggested, can be ‘destigmatised’ through ‘ neuroqueer feminism ’. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Johnson, M.
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