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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

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However, none of this is stemming the stream of 988 callers who receive unasked for, unwanted, or unexpected visits from police and emergency medical services (EMS)—and then get taken, with or without consent, to hospitals or crisis centers for mental health evaluations. Where’s the accountability?” A therapist recommended 988.

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Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible

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Around the same time, I became convinced that, in order to prepare me for a higher position, the senior directors of the parent organisation had hired two international consultants: (1) a life coach and (2) an ex-CIA operative (to undertake a surveillance programme using the latest technology to investigate me).

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Withdrawal Psychosis and the Aftermath of Tragedy

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When these thoughts reached a crisis point in my mind, I was arrested while in this altered state of reality, assessed, and admitted to Pineview, an acute unit at Porirua Hospital in August 1995 following a car chase with local police. I had been a student at the Central Institute of Technology between 1992 and 1994.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

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The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options

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There are those of us who simply cannot fit into any labor machine, becoming homeless or institutionalized in a prison, mental hospital, or in some other way. There are of course different experiences of the megamachine.

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Crisis Hotlines, Like Canada’s New 988, Promise Confidentiality. So Why Do So Many Trace Calls and Texts? 

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At the hospital, the boy’s belongings were confiscated, he was ordered to strip naked for bodily inspection, and – now sobbing uncontrollably – he was forcibly tranquillized. What’s more, there’s no clear evidence that forcibly hospitalizing someone helps more than harms. It was a living hell,’ the boy told me. ‘I

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‘It Was a Joint Effort’: Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister’s Story to Life

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Kasdan is a longtime business and technology writer who pivoted to memoir writing on a quest to tell her sister’s story, joining the Westport Writers’ Workshop. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? She was in and out of the hospital. Kasdan : Many, many times.