Mad in America

MARCH 25, 2025

Key features of the Trieste model include: No Closed Psychiatric Hospitals: Traditional psychiatric hospitals were dismantled, replaced with open-door community mental health centres (CMHCs) operating 24/7. Triestes approach has been globally lauded, influencing mental health reforms in several countries.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Emirates Hospitals Group (EHG) to introduce the first repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) based liaison service in the world. The post Exciting New Partnership With Emirates Hospitals Group first appeared on The London Psychiatry Centre.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I n 1986 I had my first experience spending time in a hospital. My next memory was waking up in the hospital and being told to try and remain still under the X-ray machine. All I could understand at that age was I got hurt, I was in the hospital and everyone wanted to help.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

An account of the abuse he suffered after being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility at age 15 and the long journey toward joy and awe that followed, his memoir was published this spring by Penguin Random House. If you don’t mind, if we could start with the chair—with your hospitalization. How did this story start?

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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.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In a new study , researchers compared people who were hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. She is affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Moran is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School as a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, as is Ongur. Moran is an employee of pharma company Sage Therapeutics.

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Mad in America

APRIL 18, 2025

The day I left the psychiatric hospital, I signed myself out against medical advice. It began the moment I stopped handing over my truth for someone else to interpret. It began when I chose to feel againall of it. The raw, the real, the terrifying, the holy. I remember standing by the window with my packed bag, waiting for my husband.

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Doctors In Distress Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The post Fairfield Hospital Memorial Tree planted on 24th June 2024 appeared first on Doctors in Distress. As trees teach us when they weather the storm That bright days are still to come, youll be back on form Hang in there now, and you will soon see The peace, hope and shelter, just as this tree.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.

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Mad in America

MARCH 27, 2025

6 weeks where no one has suggested I be hospitalized. I was hospitalized after a taxing and stressful month. I write this as I have been manic for 6 weeks. 6 weeks where I have experienced tremendous healing, letting go of fear and replacing it with love. Frankly, its been the best 6 weeks of my life, as I have stepped into being me.

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Mad in America

APRIL 17, 2025

Police arrived at her home in Terre Haute, Indiana, handcuffed her, and had her committed to a hospital, records show, resulting in more than $12,000 in hospital charges. Little did she know ending that call would set off events she would regret. The whole thing was an absolute, utter, traumatic nightmare, she said.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality 52

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

T his past spring, the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center in Norway, a private hospital that offered medication-free care to Norwegian psychiatric patients, had to close due to a governmental decision to stop public funding for private enterprises. Now, the medication free-ward in Åsgård Hospital in Tromsø is threatened with closure.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From The Independent : “Tens of thousands of sexual assaults and incidents have been reported in NHS -run mental health hospitals as a ‘national scandal ‘ of sexual abuse of patients on psychiatric wards can be revealed. The fact these have taken place in the NHS is chilling.

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

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. It was a warlike situation; we couldn’t leave the ward, we couldn’t leave the hospital, and we were all stuck inside there. I worked a lot.

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Psychiatry Online

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The psychiatric hospital where this took place had been founded by Mennonites—a religious order with a strong pacifistic tradition. How was I to square the violent restraint and isolation of a vulnerable patient with the values supposedly espoused by the hospital at its founding? They saw hospitals where the staff carried blackjacks.

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Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2025

Although peer support specialists have been shown to decrease substance use for individuals with substance use disorders and reduce re-hospitalization for individuals with mental health conditions, they often face significant barriers to entering or staying in the profession.

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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 was his plan?” on Tuesday, Nov.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia addresses medical trauma in the lives of children and families. The post Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 21, 2025

I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. I always found it important to make friends if I was in a hospital (a few times). We would exchange clothes and beauty products and just laugh at almost everything in the hospital. As with Sam, we met in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After two horrific days of my friends and family trying to get me into the hospital, during which time I was fully lucid but believed the world was ending and awful things were being done to my family, I was finally admitted to a local psychiatric ward, diagnosed with bipolar, and kept in for 10 days.

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Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2024

Katinka ended up in a private psychiatric hospital in central London, Florence Nightingale. Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey. She became convinced she had stabbed and killed her two children, Lily and Oscar, 12 and 11 years old, respectively.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 1862, the Oregon legislature passed its first civil commitment statute, which defined the standard for forced hospitalization. The court would order the persons hospitalization. A movement based on this in the United States was soon led by Dorothea Dix and others, who eventually founded the Friends Hospital in Pennsylvania.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The study was led by Fiammetta Coscia at the University of Florence and Maastricht University, as well as Virginie-Anne Chouinard at McLean Hospital, and Guy Chouinard at the University of Montreal and McGill University. It was published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

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Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2024

’ That’s how Bri Jackson describes her stay inside a local psychiatric hospital – a stay Bri says never should have happened. But now patients, parents, and employees are coming forward to talk to us about what they say are their experiences with the psychiatric treatment at some local hospitals and with psychiatrist Dr. Nagy Kheir.

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Hospitality 104

Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

If you are the only doctor on duty in a public hospital with over a hundred patients to be seen in less than 3 hours, the time constraint is understandable. Public/Private Collusion Public hospitals are, in many ways, comparable to garbage dumps, while private practices could easily be mistaken for five-star hotels.

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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

People are often started on them during inpatient hospitalizations and there are many reasons to believe that the dose a person is on at discharge is not the MED. Hospital stays are brief and doses are increased rapidly. The rationale for long-term use of the drugs is to reduce the risk of relapse.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

I’ve spent my life creating compassionate alternatives to the traditional mental health system because my hospitalization was really bad. I would never ever want to seek help in a psychiatric hospital ever again. Even today, right now, there are people being traumatized in psychiatric hospitals right here in the Bay Area.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From The Times : “In 2019 Horowitz and Professor David Taylor, the director of pharmacy and pathology at the Maudsley Hospital in London (who went through his own ‘strange and frightening and torturous’ withdrawal), co-authored an article in the Lancet Psychiatry journal arguing that tapering should happen far more slowly than official (..)

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Cesta of the Karolinska Institute, found similar rates of psychiatric inpatient hospitalization, outpatient visits, and suicidal behavior at 90 days and 1.5 The current research, led by Carolyn E. years after childbirth between the group that discontinued SSRI/SNRI drugs during pregnancy and the group that continued use.

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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.

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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.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 8, 2023

From Psychiatry at the Margins : Awais Aftab interviews Martin Plöderl, PhD, a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at a public psychiatric hospital in Salzburg, Austria, whose research focus is on suicide prevention with a recent focus on the efficacy of antidepressants.

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Hospitality 120

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The article was written by Rose Ahn-Horst at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and McLean Hospital, and former FDA reviewer Erick Turner at Oregon Health & Science University and the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System. It is also the most commonly abused benzodiazepine.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He was escorted him out of the clinic, handcuffed to a gurney in an ambulance, and taken to our county’s mental hospital. When I was finally permitted to see him three days later, he was lying on the ground in the hospital’s rec room, alone, shaking from the side effects of the Haldol they had given him.

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