Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She insisted that I was mentally ill and should be taken to the Cowdy Ward, the psychiatric abuse facility at the Royal Darwin Hospital. She stalked the police car to the hospital. She advised the hospital that my ex-husband, children, friends, and family should refrain from contacting me. I was terrified. I wanted to leave.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2025

I wasnt aware that a retail store could have a jail. He said that if I were in the hospital when my court case came up, the judge would probably throw the case out of court. He drove me to the hospital. Like most people spent most of their time bouncing in and out of psych hospitals. My father bailed me out. Out to what?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. ” Yet, all the elements describing that cursed disorder, except for the tendency to engage in random fights with strangers, appeared to mirror my own self. It was a wholly unfamiliar dynamic they had never encountered before.

Eating disorders 112

Eating disorders Bipolar disorder Self-awareness Personality disorders 112

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Time to put up, I began writing… They rode in silence to Fair Oaks Hospital, parents aching for the recovery of a broken child. You must trust us to treat him in the way we know best; otherwise he could be in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Is what my family encountered truly different, better now than 50 years ago?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Psychiatry asserts that it has the medical authority to deem certain people “mentally ill,” and that such people can be forcibly treated because they suffer from “anosognosia” and thus lack awareness that they are ill and in need of treatment.

Legal 145

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. On the 3rd of October 2023 when he went to hospital for the last time I had a meeting with my soon-to-be PhD supervisor, online. When will they self-reflect on the nature of their care?

Sleep and mental health 101

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 101

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. Two weeks later, both the NP and Matt’s counselor called me and said they must drop Matt as a patient, recommending an outpatient hospital detox program and a “higher level of care.”

Sleep and mental health 120

Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 120

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities.

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Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 141

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I Gretchen didn’t take the cue to move on from the self-injury talk, and kept pushing, and centering the responsibility for my ‘safety’ in others, rather than myself. Right now self injuring is helping.”

Sleep and mental health 130

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 130

Mad in America

JULY 12, 2024

I speculate now about withdrawal akathisia, extreme sleep deprivation, spiritual awakening, deep awareness, empathy and sensory experiencing, an invalidating environment, defensiveness, corruption and spiritual attack. Simultaneously, however, the return to work brought a return of some element of self-worth. I was contributing.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. Be it politicians, hospital managers, welfare bureaucrats, supervisory bodies, children’s services, psychiatrists, doctors or psychologists.

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Sleep and mental health Construction Healthcare Self-awareness 127

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Construction Education 143

Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Violence may be the unfortunate consequence (one may try to attack the rope) as one gives way to crazy thoughts, and this is when family call in and the police arrive and one is locked up in the mental hospital with most human rights removed, and then given tranquilizer drugs. How did I accomplish this, you may ask?

Neurotransmitters and mental health 103

Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 103

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I was still under the “care” of the Early Intervention Service as an outpatient but after my treatment in hospital I didn’t want my life to be intervened in by mental health professionals. Unlike after my first admission I internalised my new self-image as a bipolar psychiatric patient and it ended up literally disabling me.

Sleep and mental health 110

Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services Aging and mental health 110

Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other.

Trauma and the brain 120

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help. And too often he retreated to superficial, self-help maxims—“there is no such thing as perfect”—a “look on the bright side” attitude that trivialized my concerns.

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Insurance Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 143

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. We don’t know.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take.

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Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 118

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. This shut down can result in complete immobilization or a fear of such immobilization, both of which are psychologically painful, and this can result in the pain of self-loathing and shame.

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic. The patient has to come into the hospital or clinic twice a week for four weeks. or so for the hospital costs). If you think the Spravato drug is expensive you are quite right.

Healthcare 97

Healthcare Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Pharmaceuticals 97

Lightwork

JANUARY 30, 2025

This type of therapy is different from traditional talk therapy because it lets you explore your inner self through creative expression. This multi-modal approach can unlock deeper levels of healing and self-discovery that traditional therapy alone might not access. It provides them with a safe space for self-discovery and healing.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. In 1931, Horatio Pollock, of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, conducted a long-term study of 2,700 depressed patients hospitalized from 1909 to 1920.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 144

Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 144

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck. She sees this as a revolution and it is a problem that should be addressed without violence.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis. Diving into that research was fascinating for me.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

But when your sense of self is built through other people, cutting them off is not that easy In a place like India, it’s very common to just keep people you hate close to you. Because of this, theyre often aware of problems in the psychiatric field that clinicians in Western countries remain blind to.

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Global mental health Self-awareness Pharmaceuticals Hospitality 52

The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. Childrens Hospital, the hardware store.

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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Hospitality 52

Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Sean just landed in the hospital after getting into a fight. Gaby is aware of her anxious attachment style: she says to Derrick she gets scared when she lets other people in, and then pushes them away. Louis needs this for his own self-forgiveness, and Jimmy was able to forgive Louis precisely because he learned to forgive himself.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Hospitality 52

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The inventory itself consists of 24 self-competed questions and can be viewed here. I am fully aware of the difficulty getting timely emergency care in the US health care system unless you need a trauma surgeon or interventional cardiologist. It was adapted from the 195-item Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Hospitality Education 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. They have no awareness of the dormant forces within them awaiting recognition and activation, because the emphasis is to look outside of oneself for comfort and relief. I believe that because we each have our own resilient Spirit, we are creators.

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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Legal Sleep and mental health 111

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. At the core of everything is the inescapable awareness that we are going to die, and that it could happen at any moment.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Mental health advocacy 139

Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. Sense of Self: People with BPD may struggle with knowing their true self. What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

Personality disorders 52

Personality disorders Genetics and mental health Dialectical Behavior Therapy Self-awareness 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. At 16 she was forcefully hospitalized and became tethered to psychiatry for the rest of her life. A few years after the release of that film, I began adapting his writings for a cerebral, artful documentary.

Self-awareness 103

Self-awareness Technology Hospitality Education 103

Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

There are different types of mood episodes: Manic episodes (severe symptoms that may require hospitalization). Taking care of yourselfwhether through therapy, support groups, or self-care practicesensures that you can continue offering the best support without compromising your own mental health.

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Healthcare 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I started self-harming, just to feel my skin and keep the emotional pain at bay. At age 15, I was sent to a psychiatrist when I was unable to stay awake for more than a couple of hours, or eat proper food for several days, and my self-harming with sharp objects and cigarettes got too visible and out of control.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Anxiety disorders 125