Dr. Deb

MAY 15, 2025

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

Self-awareness

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD - Baylor College of Medicine 2024- Friederike Holze, PhD - University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He was admitted to hospital several times and spoke openly about his experiences with the aim of improving the treatment that people with autism receive when they meet the psychiatric system. Silas also got the ministry to commit to making an effort to improve the treatment of people with autism. This should be done in all countries.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He was escorted him out of the clinic, handcuffed to a gurney in an ambulance, and taken to our county’s mental hospital. When I was finally permitted to see him three days later, he was lying on the ground in the hospital’s rec room, alone, shaking from the side effects of the Haldol they had given him.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

LANGA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA – JANUARY 28, 2014 – Schoolchildren poses for a photograph along a roadway in Langa, South Africa, a township located on the outskirts of Cape Town. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. My mom takes handfuls of pills, she tells me.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

It all started in 2014, less than a year after my honorable discharge from the Army, and shortly after returning home from Afghanistan, where I’d served as an Apache helicopter mechanic. The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

He was hospitalized and medicated and told that this psychosis was something he would have to live with for the rest of his life, a biological abnormality. Biological psychiatry ignores the individual’s social context and difficult life events as the cause of suffering (Svenaeus, 2014). Everything that existed was holy.

Aging and mental health

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD – Baylor College of Medicine 2024- Friederike Holze, PhD – University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med.

Hospitality

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Previous Recipients 2005 – Stephan Heckers, MD – McLean Hospital 2006 – Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 – Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD – National Institute of Mental Health 2008 – Alexander Neumeister, MD – Yale University and Ramin V.

Hospitality

Lightwork

APRIL 17, 2025

Surgical Care Reduces post-operative nausea and vomiting Aids in faster recovery after anesthesia Improves patient comfort during hospital stays 3. Cancer Treatment Support Prevents chemotherapy-induced nausea Helps patients maintain nutrition during treatment Enables completion of necessary therapy cycles 2.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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.

Hospitality

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Federal legislation in 2013 required drug companies to disclose their payments to physicians, resulting in the creation of an Open Payments database; and in 2021, utilizing this database, journalist Robert Whitaker reported : “From 2014 to 2020, pharmaceutical companies paid $340 million to U.S.

Technology

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. We learned that hospital detox programs do not safely taper benzos, but Matt was desperate and decided to apply.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

8,9,11-14 In 2019, a Norwegian study found that 52 of 100 consecutively admitted patients to a psychiatric hospital would have wanted a drug-free alternative if it had existed. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Ministeriet for Sundhed og Forebyggelse 2014;Oct 30. 15 Why cant people get that then?

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A common notice in hospital patients’ charts is: “The patient doesn’t want drugs. I co-founded Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry in 2014 and, as noted earlier, I was immediately attacked by the top of British psychiatry. Discharged.” After decades of inaction and denial, 7 some progress is now being made.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.

Hospitality

Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

In 2014, I took emergency leave from Afghanistan to be with my brother. I spent the next three months in and out of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for substance use and post-traumatic stress. When my grandmother died in 2005, my struggles deepened and I was prescribed a second set of SSRIs.

Insurance

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Chapman’s book attempts to blame ‘anti-psychiatry’ for the adverse social consequences (homelessness, drug use and rising rates of incarceration) that, in the USA, coincided with the closure of large asylums and hospitals from the early 1960s onwards. Synthese 203:24 Runswick-Cole, K. Us” and “them”?

Trauma and the brain

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The virus is aerosolized presumably by coughing, sneezing, and toilet flushing and has been detected in the air around hospitalized patients (8). In a 2013 review, Norovirus was the second most common infection disease outbreak affecting psychiatric hospitals (13). Sources of Airborne Norovirus in Hospital Outbreaks.

Hospitality

The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Childrens Hospital, the hardware store. Even in August 2014, when I first edited and added to this journal entry, I was only able to remember things from those times very slightly. I feel like a child, peering out into the endless strange colorful shapes coming and going so fast. A Door Opened. It was like everything was grayed out.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Over the course of two decades, until 2014, Davidson and his team reviewed hundreds of psychiatric facilities across the country as part of a consent decree intended to reform Illinois’ child welfare system. ‘Unfortunately, in many hospitals, the door only swings one way,’ Davidson says.

Hospitality

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

People with ADHD are more likely to get into car accidents, 24 become hospitalized, and engage in self-harmthan are their neurotypical peers. 5, 6 Scientific research has established no causal link between excessive screen time, video game play, or social media use and ADHD. 15 ADHD shortens an individuals life expectancy by 7.5 Lofthouse, N.,

Eating disorders

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. In addition to issues with the validity of psychiatric diagnosis (Cooper, 2014; Cosgrove, 2024; Hengartner & Lehmann, 2017; Khoury et al.,

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thomas Insel, after retiring from his dozen years as director of the NIMH, spending 20 billion dollars on biological research, admitted that he had not been able to improve psychiatric treatment outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, or reduce suicide.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here is a patient story from one of the psychiatrists’ university hospital in Copenhagen. The reason why the patient didn’t take the drug was that he had read the newspaper article I published in January 2014 about ten harmful myths in psychiatry, which also exists in English, 189 and he has been well ever since without drugs.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Currently, in many parts of the world, the penalty for suicidal behaviors is involuntary commitment; that is to say, whether you want to or not, you will be hospitalized. All this does, for many, is teach them their feelings are shameful, to be punished, hidden, repressed… which is why, following hospitalization, suicide rates skyrocket.

Hospitality