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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor. I built a new support system. They didn’t go away.

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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.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. I was also put on Prozac.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2024

Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes. Thrust into the welcoming arms of the mental health system, “safety” was a portion of my care plan completed by a social worker before I was discharged from my first emergency week-long hold at the psychiatric ward of Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

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Credible Mind

JANUARY 29, 2025

Rethink Mental Health Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools Customized mental wellbeing platform to be integrated and offered community wide to boost health equity, promote early intervention, and streamline care access SAUSALITO, Calif.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

MARCH 31, 2025

If your child has been struggling with mental, emotional, or behavioural issues, you may be wondering about Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Services. These are services that run in areas around the UK to support children and young people with their mental health. Did you know? What is CAMHS?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In that moment, in that mental-ward room alone, I felt I was the helpless target and it was my enemy bent on my destruction. A castaway in the hospital with pneumonia five times from age three months to five years, my only “rescue” was as an infant (presumed to be at d eath’s d oor). My path forward was erratic.

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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.

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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. Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations.

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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. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function. So what is there to lose?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 12, 2024

I hadn’t gone to the hospital. The age of consent in Maryland is 16, and you are 17. We were speeding towards Easton, so I assumed it was to the hospital. I felt my anxiety rise steadily until we arrived at the hospital. Discharge was very fast from the hospital. I hadn’t called the police. In the rain.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

APRIL 3, 2025

St Vincent’s University Hospital Job Posted: Thursday, 3 April 2025 Deadline: Wednesday, 16 April 2025 Please note that this job is NOT approved as a College recognised training post at this time. This post would suit a mid-career psychiatry trainee. The post will consist of two elements, Clinical and Research.

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Psychiatric News

JULY 24, 2023

Tuesday Reprinted from its original source at The Rutherford Institute HERE By John & Nisha Whitehead July 18, 2023 There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.Hannah Arendt Get ready for the next phase of the governments war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MARCH 25, 2025

The Dublin South Central Mental Health Service is a busy, community-oriented psychiatric service in a large deprived urban area, catchment population of 406,448. This is a sectorised service and acute admission units are located in Tallaght Hospitals. The service is divided into 4 general adult community mental health services.

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Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. They have some kind of underlying mental illness condition. How can you tell if someone is sexually deviant?

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Lightwork

JANUARY 30, 2025

At LightWork Therapy and Recovery , a mental health treatment center in Woburn, Massachusetts, we’ve seen how powerful creative expression can be in treating mental health issues. Our clients find new ways to communicate their deepest thoughts and feelings, breaking free from the limitations of spoken language.

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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. After a few sessions, Marit began to tell about her contact with angels, something that came to her at a young age spontaneously. Journal for Psychic Health Work, 16(3), 166-172.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 30, 2025

Denzel, then aged eight, had always been a stellar student. When Grace contacted her companys Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a referral to a mental health provider, she had a few requirements. Searching for Black mental health professionals Finding a Black therapist isnt easy. When Grace W.s We needed help.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 30, 2025

Denzel, then aged eight, had always been a stellar student. When Grace contacted her companys Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a referral to a mental health provider, she had a few requirements. Searching for Black mental health professionals Finding a Black therapist isnt easy. When Grace W.s We needed help.

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Bullet Psych

JUNE 25, 2023

Not attributable to a concurrent medical/mental condition. Pica can occur at any age, although it is most common in children and individuals with intellectual disabilities. A minimum age of 2 years is suggested for a pica diagnosis to exclude developmentally normal mouthing of objects by infants that results in ingestion.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MARCH 7, 2025

She is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry with Mayo Mental Health Services. I enjoyed the team working, the holistic approach and the very human touch that psychiatry employs in delivering health care. Stigmatisation of those with mental illness. Did you always want to be psychiatrist? Do any challenges remain?

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Epidemiology & Pathogenesis 4 , 5 Genetics , environmental influences , and mental health comorbidities contribute to vulnerability. Prevalence : Data from the 2023 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 10.2% Gender and Age : Men have higher rates than women. Highest rates in ages 1829.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

Full disclosure Dr. Dewey recommends that parents let kids know about their own experience with learning issues in an age-appropriate way, using language the child can relate to. There are university centers, hospitals, and independent clinics where parents can go and get an adult learning or neuropsychology evaluation, says Dr. Dewey.

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Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2025

T he Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960. Robert Whitaker: Your longitudinal study of outcomes for chronic patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital wasand isof landmark importance.

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Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. They’re too entangled with control, coercion, sanism, and violence.

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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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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His writing offers unique insights into the hegemonic foundations of mental health and champions the role of narrative in therapy. His profound appreciation for the humanities guides his exploration of mental health, often through the lens of art and literature. Post-psychiatry introduces these questions to the field.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 23, 2024

O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required. When is someone impaired in functioning?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

As a person with lived experience (PWLE) who spent years cycling in and out of hospitals, I had avoided working in them throughout my career. FOR’s definition of “family” is broad, including both relatives and friends of the people who were viewed as struggling with their mental health. Until then. Families need support.

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Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2025

Jasmine will attend appointments at campus health center as recommended by team members. She was in very acute distress because a middle-aged man in a white lab coat holding a clipboard and a clicky pen was sitting across the room evaluating her body, assessing it for enoughness. I only stayed in the hospital for a few hours.

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Hospitalized at a Christian institution called Bethel, diagnosed schizophrenic, Buck was sterilized under the Nazi law for prevention of hereditary diseases.

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