Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I am also a trauma survivor, an individual labeled with Bipolar Disorder, who struggled with suicidal ideation. I am a social gerontologist, a former Board member of the MHRB of Ashland County, and older adult. I experienced the good and the worst in terms of the mental health care I received.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Back then, during my hospitalization at the eating disorder clinic, borderline personality disorder was one of those common diagnoses. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. As fate would have it, the clinic’s psychiatrist had recently inaugurated the very first inpatient program for eating disorders.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

That real world experience was associated with treating hundreds of people for exacerbations of preexisting psychotic disorders as well as seeing psychosis develop in people with no risk factors of family history of psychosis. A significant number of thise people need ongoing treatment for psychosis to stay out of the hospital.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. Upon reaching the hospital, I was greeted by two desk clerks. I was asked for my ID, insurance, and other things that hospital staff typically ask of a patient. That was the beginning of the beginning. I’ll call him Carlos.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 14, 2025

Every year on March 30th, we observe World Bipolar Day, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness, challenging stigma, and promoting understanding about bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

His mother has remained Tony’s main caregiver while she has watched him decline over the years from the continuous drugs prescribed for diagnoses that also include schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, mood disorder, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder.

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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. My other sister eventually became pregnant out of wedlock in college. Both got on medication.

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ADDitude

APRIL 23, 2025

Whats more, for people with mood disorders, having comorbid ADHD is associated with an earlier onset of depression, more recurrent episodes, more frequent hospitalizations, and higher risk of suicide. The risk of developing depression is about 2.5 times higher for people with ADHD than it is for the general population.

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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.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 11, 2025

Psychiatrists focus on treating conditions that require medical intervention, such as severe depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric illnesses. They often work in hospitals, mental health clinics, or private practice settings. Yes Yes Works in Hospitals? Rarely Yes (e.g.,

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My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You can now chat with one of our providers online for a variety of different conditions, including: Depression Anxiety disorders ADHD & Substance abuse Addiction Alcohol abuse Insomnia Dementia or memory loss Bipolar disorder Our providers serve patients from teenage years to geriatric and older adults.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. I saw a lot of distressing things when I was very young and into my 20s. It makes sense that that a young psyche would go to extreme lengths to manage the stress.

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Solara Mental Health

JUNE 10, 2022

Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions Many Veterans with Substance Use Disorder often have a co-occurring mental health disorder. These disorders may include PTSD, anxiety, or depression. Those injured during combat, hospitalized, or experienced trauma have a greater risk for increased drug or alcohol use.

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Clear Behavioral Health

MARCH 17, 2025

Addiction quite often coexists alongside mental disorders like depression , anxiety , bipolar disorder , or other mental health conditions and drugs become a way for the person to quiet their thoughts [2]. Many rehabs treat co-occurring disorders, recognizing that they come in pairs.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

” His mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Looking back, I think my friends did the only thing that they thought could help — having an intervention and convincing me to voluntarily admit myself to the hospital. Pool also did an extensive review of my medical records and diagnosed me with bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

APRIL 10, 2025

I t is impossible to make it on your own within the current mental health system in the UK if you suffer from serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, chronic depression or bipolar disorder. You are stuck in a psychiatric hospital for at least a month, usually sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Have friends around.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In research circles, he’s known as the founder and executive director of the controversial Stanley Medical Research Institute, which has spent more than $550 million on biological research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the past few decades.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2025

REQUEST FOR RECEPTION OF PATIENT INTO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Please receive Sylvie Raymonde Leber for observation and treatment into the psychiatric hospital of which you are Superintendent for a period of 21 days subject to the provision of the Mental Health Act 1959. Id had three brief hospitalizations before Larundel.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning. medical schools.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

The last visit to the ER jolted us to next-level intensity beginning with the ER doctor who traded the Xanax for Klonopin, another benzo, and prescribed Remeron, saying Matt needed to spend the night at the hospital so that they could “make sure he could sleep.” They assured him they would admit him, and I left the hospital.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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Real Psychiatry

APRIL 18, 2025

3: Pre-existing psychiatric disorders exacerbated by use recurrent episodes of psychosis in patients with a pre-existing diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression with psychosis preceded by cannabis use is a common problem. These patients require treatment for psychosis for stabilization.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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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. I was once invited to follow the chief psychiatrist during one day at a closed ward at my hospital, Rigshospitalet. 15 Why cant people get that then?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasn’t just the break—it was what happened in the hospital.

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ADDitude

APRIL 25, 2025

Clinicians then misinterpret their outward challenges as signs of mood disorders or bipolar disorder, which is a stigmatizing mental health diagnosis. is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a clinical psychologist at Seattle Childrens Hospital.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He was confined to a mental hospital in Jena and then nursed at home by his mother and sister until his death. In an attempt to convince others and himself that he was, after all, a heterosexual, he told the personnel of the Jena mental hospital where he was confined that his wife Cosima Wagner had brought him there.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. I remember when my sister would go into hospital, people would be like, oh, that’s great, now she’ll get the help she needs, says Hough.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray).

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Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

It is a key feature of bipolar disorder symptoms and can significantly impact a persons ability to function. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition that requires a combination of medication, cognitive behavioral therapy, and lifestyle changes for effective treatment.

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ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

Or bipolar disorder?” What’s more, researchers at the University of Michigan and Massachussets General Hospital studied 40,000 high school seniors, more than 4,000 of whom had ADHD. Russell Barkley has pointed out for years,” says Wes Crenshaw, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist and author. Or anxiety?

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Mad in America

JUNE 7, 2024

—“Medical History #2,” The Bearable Slant of Light I n the first intake documents from my son’s first hospitalization, the attending psychiatrist wrote: “On examination, the patient presents as a very poor historian.” What happened next, of course: hospitalizations and more medications. The only way to tell it, for me, is poetry.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2024

It is not uncommon to come across rightfully indignant comments from people who have been ascribed such psychotic labels that “Having bipolar disorder doesn’t excuse you from being a criminal!” They are and always have been in full control of their actions. or “Schizophrenic people aren’t inherently prone to violence!”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When the incident occurred, my panic-stricken mother told my father to take me to the hospital right away. Dr. Fulmer quickly pumped the drugs out of my stomach and told my father I would not have lived if he had tried to get me to the hospital. which questioned the rising cases of young children diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

Although anxiety and depressive conditions may be triggered by environmental stressors, they also may reflect disorders in your brain chemistry, so an individual may respond positively to antidepressants, beta blockers, or benzodiazepines. They are essential for managing mental health conditions like bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

In todays world, a psychotic homosexual would probably be taken to a mental hospital and given antipsychotic drugs with their devastating side effects. It resulted in my becoming a schizophrenic and being hospitalized in mental hospitals for fifteen months. This torture lasted two years. This, I believe, goes a little too far.

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