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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.

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Everything About Us Without Us

Mad in America

T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.

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Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System

Mad in America

I n preparation for a course on clinical community psychology at my home university in Caracas, Venezuela, I stumbled upon a tweet from an anonymous student complaining about a family of pigs that had occupied the psychiatric hospitalization ward where he was supposed to develop his clinical training. His explanation left me distraught.

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Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment

Mad in America

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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Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived

Mad in America

I haven’t had a psychiatric hospitalization in 15 years. I was just struggling… I was referred to you by my surgical team because they thought I was depressed. I left your care after about five months only to be hospitalized for the next 18 months. I raised all three of my children as a single mother. I wanted the support.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

Mad in America

Eventually, they referred him to the rapid response team that specifically dealt with addiction. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. Weve been referring a lot of people to Dr. Gretchen Watson and a few others, but its not enough. They made him wait for hours. He got antsy. Fee: Adderall.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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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.