Psychiatric Times

AUGUST 7, 2025

She ultimately required psychiatric hospitalization as a result of agitation and interpersonal conflicts directly related to the auditory hallucinations and paranoia. Over the next 3 months her clozapine dose was slowly increased to 600 mg by mouth at bedtime, with a steady-state 12-hour postdose clozapine level documented at 546 ng/mL.

Nutrition and mood

Mad in America

MARCH 22, 2025

Studies of patients hospitalized for depression in the first half of the 20 th century, both in the U.S. This was a documented stay-well rate of 3%. and Europe, told of a spectrum of outcomes, which led to the conclusion that depression, for the most part, was an episodic disorder.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital. One of the options it put forward was that coercive treatment and hospitalization should be based on capacity rather than a supposed diagnosis of mental illness. I thought that was important to document that process. The context of their life.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

She has not had medical issues, has never been hospitalized or had surgeries, and has no allergies. Commonly documented clinical findings of a schizophrenic prodrome include cognitive deficits (memory, attention, and concentration). Recently, she has been wearing a hoodie with her head often covered.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 26, 2025

For example, in recent years P&As have exposed and opposed excessive use of restraints at New Yorks Bellevue hospital , over-representation of Black residents in psychiatric incarceration in Californias Alameda County , and abusive forced stripping in Washington facilities. Yet she had no idea what a P&A was.

Aging 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

MAY 26, 2025

Before the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Sobibor, before the industrialised murder of millions, came the sterilisation clinics and mercy killings in German hospitals. In internal documents and propaganda, their continued care was described as wasteful, inefficient, and unfair to the productive majority.

Education

Mad in America

APRIL 25, 2025

Along the way, in a valley facing the railway, I wrote an impromptu story on the blank pages of my passporta document now obsolete in the scenario I had newly conceived. I regained consciousness the next day, arriving at a psychiatric hospital. Two officers jumped out of the vehicle and swaggered toward me.

Trauma and the brain

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.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JUNE 14, 2025

Connor had been suffering from debilitating headaches, insomnia, and other symptoms related to a documented traumatic brain injury (TBI) he’d sustained while deployed. Murphy Hospital in San Antonio. Brian and Kim Brumfield brought a self-portrait photograph of their son Connor, a US Army veteran who died on April 13, 2023.

Education

Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2025

It is defined as a medical document that describes a patient’s current illness from the first sign to the present. I only stayed in the hospital for a few hours. Most of all, she was in very acute distress because she was being treated like a criminal on trial, even in this very write-up. She states. She admits. She denies.

Eating disorders

Mad in America

AUGUST 12, 2025

B ack when I was battling with what a State Hospital labeled as schizophrenia, I had little reason to trust mental health workers. I longed for a day in court where I could rectify everything that happened to me, but the mental health workers at the hospital simply rolled their eyes when I tried to share my story.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 26, 2025

“[La Crosse] Lighthouse is especially up the creek, because La Crosse is on the map nationally for housing issues and there’s no psychiatric hospitals there,” Okoronta said. “So Most egregiously, this policy continues a documented pattern of mental health laws being used as weapons to criminalize Black and Brown communities.”

Healthcare

Mad in America

JULY 17, 2025

While the drug companies played no role in the creation of the DSM-III , the document proved a bonanza for them, creating hundreds of new billing categories for which they could develop new drugs (or repurpose old ones). The stated intent of the authors was to narrow the range of problems treated by psychiatrists.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

This statement underlines what has been documented many times before, that Cochrane is too beholden to the drug industry. 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?

Anxiety disorders

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From The Guardian : “Fewer people with ‘mental illnesses’ would endure the trauma of being sectioned if advance choice documents – setting out a treatment plan while they are well – were included in Mental Health Act reforms, a leading psychiatrist has said.

Hospitality

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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

From FOX31 Denver KDVR : “When Jonathan Delgado-Concepcion checked himself into Centennial Peaks Hospital on Oct. Instead, the 28-year-old found himself trapped at the behavioral health hospital in Louisville, unable to leave even after he said he felt his mental health was better. What nurse documented that?

Hospitality

Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

He was confused, not fully out of the psychotic episode that had landed him in the hospital weeks before. Public psychiatry’s documentation creates an elaborate fiction about what treatment addresses and looks like, a fiction that under scrutiny ends up exposing the system’s many flaws, contradictions, and inefficiencies.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 9, 2024

I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” To what extent is psychiatric hospitalization a legitimate hospitality for a sick person? ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

Hospitality

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

I haven’t had a psychiatric hospitalization in 15 years. I left your care after about five months only to be hospitalized for the next 18 months. I raised all three of my children as a single mother. I have lived on my own for the last 24 years. I continue to work and have a successful career in a profession I love.

Childhood trauma

Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He was admitted to hospital several times and spoke openly about his experiences with the aim of improving the treatment that people with autism receive when they meet the psychiatric system. Silas also got the ministry to commit to making an effort to improve the treatment of people with autism. But the money was not important for Silas.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Thus STAR*D could only document a get-well/stay-well rate at the end of a year of only 3%. This in contrast to the previously mentioned 2006 NIMH-funded study that documented a one-year remission rate of non-medicated depressed patients of 85%. It has long been known that the variable of therapy technique has little effect on outcome.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas. After the judge reviewed the documents, he reversed the previous ruling and ordered that my children be returned to me. They didn’t go away.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In his book CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami , Dalal documents how this has led to a systemic ‘gaming’ of results that is prolific throughout many healthcare organizations. Hospital departments hold ‘business meetings’, patients are referred to as ‘consumers’, and austerity doctrine reigns.

Healthcare

Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. Ashamed of my propensity to take myself too seriously, I decided to cast aside the cursed diagnosis.

Eating disorders

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

standard mental hospital procedures unavoidably violate human rights). With the entirely benevolent aim of publicising this important document, I emailed the editors of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry to see if they would accept a paper on the Guidelines as a “Viewpoint.”

Genetics and mental health

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.

Pharmaceuticals

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

Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

At the Hepatitis C Trust, a group of Peer Researchers have been discussing the use of stigmatising language in policy and research documents and service delivery. Plenty of evidence demonstrates how stigmatising language in policy documents leads to bias and discrimination in service commissioning and design.

Hospitality

Solara Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Patients must visit an ID card office and carry all necessary documentation to add a family member’s SSN to DEERS. Clinic and military hospital policies and guidelines may vary from those outlined in this document. However, they do not need pre-authorization or a referral if they visit a military clinic or hospital.

Insurance

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 now place a greater emphasis on thorough documentation and extensive commenting, which are essential for making code usable and replicable by others.

Hospitality

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

APRIL 10, 2025

While there are some improvements compared to the Heads of Bill, this convoluted and unhelpful document will make it almost impossible to do our jobs and, most importantly, lead to greater suffering of our patients. They ramble on without substance, quoting documents and charters.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Indeed, as Pigott and collaborators reported in their 2010 paper , of the 4,041 patients who had entered the study, only 108 were well and still in the study at its end, a documented stay-well rate of less than 3%. These “findings argue for a reappraisal of the current recommended standard of care of depression,” they wrote.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. Patients were generally enthusiastic about its minimal medication approach.

Early intervention

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.”

Legal

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

While the ongoing logistics of maintaining such a network have proved challenging, one such successful effort in 2006 was documented in The Wall Street Journal. Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ But that number is so swamped. There are so many people needing help.

Legal