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

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

through profitable institutions like psychiatry, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) and as an added benefit dampens the psychological responses that could subvert oppressive systems (e.g., This oppressed group, and the responses that are often associated with psychopathology, pose a threat to existing social orders and structures.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

16,24 In addition, psychotherapy can halve the risk of a new suicide attempt in patients at high risk of suicide, those admitted to hospital after a suicide attempt. 25 Any future for Cochrane? This Cochrane review is not one bad apple. Most Cochrane reviews are flawed and there are two main reasons for this.

Anxiety disorders

Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

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.

Hospitality

Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From the Los Angeles Times : “When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’ ’ Hospitals are forbidden under federal law from restraining psychiatric patients except to prevent them from harming themselves or others. .

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony went off prescription drugs in September 2021, when he was released from the hospital with none, though he was on them while being held there. Tony, son of Sherita I watched my son, who was struggling from all of the previous medications he was given prior to May 2018, but he was still able to function.

Autism spectrum

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

MAY 18, 2024

Other seminars of HVNA have been in mental health hospitals—including on the infamous psychiatric hospital on the island of Leros, which in 1989 became internationally known for the maltreatment of patients and embezzlement of funds. Also seminars have been held with user & family associations, NGOs, and universities.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

But by the end of 2018, life started to become overwhelming. The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas. Instead, the police and paramedics loaded me into an ambulance and drove me to the military base hospital nearby.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

David Taylor is the Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at Maudsley Hospital and a Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College in London. The Maudsley Hospital was founded on the basis of a need for treatment of shellshock after the first World War. I tried to come off Lexapro again in 2018. Who’s Maudsley?

Sleep and mental health

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

2 These findings echoed the results of an earlier study of people with mood disorders that found having comorbid ADHD was associated with a higher risk of suicide, more frequent hospitalizations, more recurrent episodes, and an earlier onset of depression. Poster W80. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , 81 (6) 7-13. 3 Zhang, Z.,

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

by Dr Anna Baverstock and Dr Jess Morgan Dr Anna Baverstock is a consultant community paediatrician at Somerset Hospitals Foundation Trust and lead for senior doctor wellbeing @anna_annabav Dr Jess Morgan is a paediatrician and Dinwoodie RCPCH Clinical fellow @doc_bipolar The workplace experiences of doctors in the UK continue to be very concerning.

Sleep 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

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. The approach “was as successful as anti-psychotic drug treatment in reducing psychotic symptoms in 6 weeks ”. Other projects would take up its model in the US and elsewhere.

Early intervention

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Despite all this, STAR*D’s “nearly 70% recovery” rate has not only been trusted and reported by the mainstream media but taught to psychiatry students, including in the 2018 textbook 50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know.

Poverty and mental health

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

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism.

Education

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.

Hospitality

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. Harding, R.

Aging and mental health

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

JANUARY 20, 2024

For Watson, the focus on schizophrenia came when his son experienced a crisis at age 15, including a suicide attempt and a runaway scare, along with being diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for six months. Thus, even if the siblings were raised separately, they may have shared the same immunological factors before birth.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 1, 2024

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.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I was then charged with first-degree murder, judged not criminally responsible (insane) in October 2005, and institutionalized in a mental health centre (forensic psychiatric hospital). and on The Dr. Oz Show in 2018. I was conditionally discharged in December 2007, which allowed me to live with my wife and daughter again.

Legal

Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

A month later, my leadership and I felt that I was well enough to return to the SNCO Academy in January, 2018 to complete the training program I left when my brother died. I spent the next three months in and out of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for substance use and post-traumatic stress.

Insurance

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the narrow language of hospital codes, his best translation is “health anxiety”.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A common notice in hospital patients’ charts is: “The patient doesn’t want drugs. By the end of 2017, psychiatrist Jan Vestergaard tried to get a two-hour symposium about drug withdrawal on the programme for the annual meeting of the Danish Psychiatric Association in 2018. Discharged.”

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. So she goes back to the hospital to ask for a recommendation. My skull had been fractured in a nightclub and then a year later I was ‘jumped’ by three men as I walked near my home at 6 o’clock in the evening.

Resilience and coping

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Additionally, this data can be linked to the UK’s Hospital Episode Statistics database and the Office for National Statistics, providing further details on hospital admissions and mortality. This database includes information on diagnoses, prescriptions, lab results, healthcare contacts, and referrals.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

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.

Aging and mental health

ADDitude

APRIL 25, 2025

is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a clinical psychologist at Seattle Childrens Hospital. Maggie Sibley, Ph.D., Psychiatric symptoms across the menstrual cycle in adult women: a comprehensive review. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 30(2), 100117. link] 2 Roberts, B.,

Healthcare

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the summer of 2018, I shot his portrait photos and we had the first conversations about making a movie. At 16 she was forcefully hospitalized and became tethered to psychiatry for the rest of her life. I read the books intently; easy to do since they are written in clear, accessible language.

Self-awareness

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. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Katinka ended up in the private Florence Nightingale psychiatric hospital in London. Jyllands-Postens Kronik 2018;Feb 3. [44] Katinka invited me to the launch of her book, The pill that steals lives. [47] The psychiatrists didn’t realise it was the pill that had made her ill. CMAJ 2017;189:E194-203. [43] 43] Gøtzsche PC.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 26, 2023

‘Unfortunately, in many hospitals, the door only swings one way,’ Davidson says. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine” appeared first on Mad In America. ‘You become a patient, and you stay a patient.’

Hospitality

The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Childrens Hospital, the hardware store. That time period in 2009 and 2010 was when I came the closest to committing suicide (although, the second closest I came was one year ago in 2018 because of more trauma at that time so the recovery process has not been altogether linear).

Trauma and the brain