Mad in America

AUGUST 13, 2025

I’m thinking of some of my experiences at an internship at the Veteran Hospital here in Puerto Rico, where we were forced to use diagnostics as well. And if you’re holding a particular construct close, because we’re always being handed them by social media or the culture at large, try not applying it to yourself.

Poverty and mental health

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.

Hospitality

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

They are not fixed, universal truths; they are constructed within particular historical and social moments. They lack finitude, mortality, and the ability to construct purpose in the way that humans do. We went into institutionsschools, hospitals, prisons, factoriesthat were trying to function more efficiently.

Poverty and mental health

Global News - Mental Health News

JULY 26, 2025

construction industry, report says By Mitchell Bailey Global News Posted July 26, 2025 5:00 am 2 min read If you get Global News from Instagram or Facebook - that will be changing. Construction across the province is booming — whether at hospitals, roads or homes. Find out how you can still connect with us.

Construction

Mad in America

AUGUST 2, 2025

Surprisingly, this “Workgroup” reached 51 unanimous and generally constructive recommendations for change—illustrating what proponents and critics of forced psychiatric interventions can achieve through collaboration. But TAC’s report only counts state hospital beds.

Legal

Mad in America

JULY 28, 2025

The Asylum opened in 1816 as part of Massachusetts General Hospital, and then was renamed after John McLean, a merchant and benefactor. The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital was placed out of sight across the river from the thriving city of Philadelphia. By 1916 the Asylum had 8,000 public-funded patients. In 1844 Luther V.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

How can we build a truly healing hospital that would love, nourish and heal all within, including the professionals who work there? The existing mental health hospitals are radically failing our communities despite the dedication and hard work of those working within them. What do we mean by healing?

Hospitality

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Those who ran mental hospitals needed to label the reasons patients were treated. The Bottom Line DSM is a social construction, based on ‘pragmatism’ much more so than science. .’ That was the extent of psychoanalytic nosology. Use DSM administratively, not for best clinical practice.”

Construction

Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

The psychiatric diagnosis is a medical theoretical construct with limited epistemic validity. Be it politicians, hospital managers, welfare bureaucrats, supervisory bodies, children’s services, psychiatrists, doctors or psychologists. Psychiatric diagnoses are hypotheses and not proof of the existence of real diseases.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 23, 2024

Since then, I started to see myself as a survivor after understanding that I had suffered several forms of violence during the psychiatric hospitalizations to which I was subjected, as well as developing several health problems due to having taken psychiatric drugs since I was 16 years old.

Hospitality

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.

Hospitality

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2024

S wapnil Gupta is an Associate Professor and Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. If a careful taper in the past led to a very distressing outcome like hospitalization, if the patient is absolutely not interested in changing their medications, then we leave it at that. These are all constructs.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

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). The weight of personal accountability for my own grief toppled the facade of “perfect wife and mother,” and collapsed the assumed-identity of Martyr Mom I’d constructed.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

Self-awareness

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MAY 29, 2025

The new model represents a critical step forward in the integration of mental health and physical health services in acute hospital settings. It provides a standardised, evidence-informed framework for the delivery of specialist mental health care in emergency departments and general hospital wards across the country.

Construction

Mad in America

JULY 3, 2025

When psychiatric treatment begins after involuntary hospitalization, we consider it to be forced treatment. In reality, we have all managed to be crazy people at some point, but we have culturally and socially constructed ourselves as sane and normal people. Involuntary commitment is compulsive, like kidnapping.

Legal

Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society. Testimonies from the Psych Wards There were many treatments I found in these archives, including electroshock therapy and widespread aversion therapy in Canadian hospitals. What do I mean by this?

Sleep and mental health

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 26, 2025

LeylaLoued-Khenissi Lausanne University Hospital Loued-Khenissi is a cognitive neuroscientist focusing on predictive coding models in brain and behavior. I also learned about the critical role editors play in balancing differing reviewer opinions and integrating their own evaluations to provide constructive feedback.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. In my small group, a father shared his story of losing his child to suicide, and the dehumanizing treatment their family received at the hospital. Voluntarily.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

I was trained as a psychiatrist working in a general hospital, and I was the consultant to the dialysis unit in our hospital. Even though human experience has many of the same facets, they don’t get lumped together in quite the same way. People were often very defensive. They said, I don’t need to see a psychiatrist.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Time to put up, I began writing… They rode in silence to Fair Oaks Hospital, parents aching for the recovery of a broken child. You must trust us to treat him in the way we know best; otherwise he could be in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Is what my family encountered truly different, better now than 50 years ago?

Hospitality

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? She was in and out of the hospital. When she was first hospitalized, and what were some of the changes that you might have seen affecting your sister after she was first put on drugs and committed? Kasdan : Many, many times.

Hospitality

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.” and “How is clinically significant distress analyzed as a construct?” Rather than the client seeking therapy, medication, or hospitalization when they feel it is the right for them, others decide that they “need it.”

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1966. My mother visited me during those first weeks I was being kept in the hospital seclusion room, and I angrily lashed out at her. She could not see or grasp what the hospital was doing to me behind those hidden locked doors.

Hospitality

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. In his book Pharmageddon , David Healy writes: “Drug-induced injuries are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospital settings. In the narrow language of hospital codes, his best translation is “health anxiety”.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Psychiatry’s mental illness theories are a major component of what Antonio Gramsci described as cultural hegemony —the prevailing cultural beliefs of a society that are social constructs implemented by the ruling class through favored institutions so as to maintain domination.

Technology

Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Whether or not that was the case, the Nez Perce have become known as hospitable to those outside their tribes and for having a culture characterized by democratic principles far more advanced than the white culture from which Pelton came. Their leadership was elected and accountable to community councils. But is that the best we can do?

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

No sooner were their births announced than people began to gather outside the hospital, and then when the city provided them a house to live rent-free for a year, locals would come round the clock, they would peer in the windows even in the middle of the night. Because they cannot see that whiteness is also a construction, right?

Trauma and the brain

Zencare

JANUARY 2, 2025

Episode 6: In a Lonely Place Synopsis: Seans in the hospital after getting into a fight with the construction workers from the neighborhood. David: Seeing Sean hospitalized after initially trying to do the right thing by confronting his father is heartbreaking. Paul and Jimmy try to speak with Seans dad Tim.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I’m sure they’ll be fine on their own, since I’m only going to be in hospital for 3 days – they might get hungry though!” September I left the ICU after about a week and went into a regular hospital room. This particular hospital had a lot of rabbits living on the grounds. From Kansas.

Hospitality

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In our nine years, three times a Seeker has requested the hospital to feel safe from themselves and from hurting others. As tapering progresses, undigested soul experiences surface, colors become brighter, noises sharper and feelings more intense. One of the side effects of Prozac is “danger to oneself or others”.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized. They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection. I spent a week in the hospital, undergoing testswaiting, thinking.

Genetics and mental health