Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder Hospitality 
Mad in America
MARCH 13, 2025
And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults.
Mad in America
MAY 10, 2024
M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. 5 on the 4.0 I was a failure.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 11, 2024
Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. 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.
Mad in America
APRIL 12, 2024
This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes. Both were eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. At age 32, I was introduced to a concept called “a felt sense of safety.”
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. But the U.K.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 27, 2023
W hile researching migraines, I stumbled upon the connection between them and a bipolar diagnosis I received as a young adult. On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. ” His mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Mad in America
MAY 3, 2025
Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.
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