Hospitality Related Topics 
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 20, 2023
From the Los Angeles Times : “When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’ ’ Hospitals are forbidden under federal law from restraining psychiatric patients except to prevent them from harming themselves or others. .
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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?
Mad in America
MARCH 1, 2024
From NJ Spotlight News : “A stay in a New Jersey state psychiatric hospital ‘is more akin to psychiatric incarceration,’ including violence and difficulty just getting just a drink of water. The suit contends that some people are forced to wait months, if not years, for release.
Mad in America
JUNE 28, 2025
Soteria Israel operates two Soteria houses, based on the Soteria model, which offers a community-based, non-coercive alternative to traditional psychiatric hospitalization for individuals experiencing severe mental health crises, including psychosis. Medication use is typically less frequent than in traditional hospital settings.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 11, 2023
A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. It’s the first step toward getting someone involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
From RTÉ : “[Irish] Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to intervene in the case of a 14-year-old boy who has been left in a windowless room off a hospital emergency department in Co Kerry for the last 56 days. He has been existing for 56 days in a windowless room off the emergency department in a hospital in Kerry.
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