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. I remember the nurse taking the full names and dates of birth of my children to give to social services. I saw no way out.
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. Our children were furious.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Between hospitalizations, I bounced between my biological family until I ultimately became a ward of the state at about age twelve. No more hospitalizations, no more being a ward of the state? It’s the way that beast devours you by degrees, by inches. Then it was foster and group homes. Wait, what? Emancipation? No more of this?
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). Kristina Adorjan, Director, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (UPD), University of Bern Authors: Prof. Danuta Wasserman, President, WPA Prof. Schulze, President Elect, WPA Prof.
Credible Mind
MARCH 6, 2025
CredibleMind, under Van Brunts leadership, provides organizations like employers, health plans, hospitals, and health departments with a mental health information system designed to promote emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. TIC encourages safe, healing environments because its core principles are based on ensuring physical and emotional safety. It also focuses on fostering trust through transparency and peer support.
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. Experience and knowledge may have to come from different streams.
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