Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. We didnt pursue legal action against any of the doctorswe just didnt have the fight left in us. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006.

Insurance

Mad in America

APRIL 10, 2025

You are stuck in a psychiatric hospital for at least a month, usually sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The aftercare after the hospital is nonexistent. After they released me from the hospital on 15 mg of aripiprazole, I saw my new (they always changed) psychiatrist a month later. Its a prison. They dont have enough staff.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

through profitable institutions like psychiatry, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) and as an added benefit dampens the psychological responses that could subvert oppressive systems (e.g., Insanity is not a psychological term; it is a legal term invoked as a part of an insanity defense.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 2, 2025

Many of those 51 recommendations can be loosely grouped by themes: strengthened legal due process; more options, and better data. Experts like Jim Gottstein have estimated that proper legal representation alone could reduce commitments by as much as 90 percent, because so many are unconstitutional.

Legal

Mad in America

JULY 26, 2025

Since then, the term has been adopted as a metaphor in legal and public discourse, often said to be “frayed” or even “ ripped to shreds.” Legal scholars now argue that the concept itself has become essentially meaningless. It violates human rights at the United Nations level.” Amid these developments, on June 17 Rep.

Healthcare

Real Psychiatry

JULY 25, 2025

As an example of the latter, if a judge releases a patient from a hospital without commitment and that person kills or injures someone or themselves – it is less likely that court will take a similar risk in the future.

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. Mission joined almost 300 HCA for profit hospitals around the country.

Aging 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

Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

A significant number of thise people need ongoing treatment for psychosis to stay out of the hospital. All of this was an obvious prelude to legalization of cannabis and being able to market it as an intoxicant. Their course is complicated by cannabis use disorder.

Legal

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.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

standard mental hospital procedures unavoidably violate human rights). Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” This much: “Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” ” Box 2, p. 15, sets out “The case against coercion.”

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Idaho didn’t have any psychiatric hospitals secure enough for patients whose break with reality made them lash out in fear, anger or confusion. Sword said putting prison officials in charge, as lawmakers were contemplating, could violate the civil rights of patients committed by the court for hospitalization.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2025

The JLECBH Charter indicates that it is [e]establishing an anticipated inventory of future services and supports with a specific emphasis on prevention, early intervention, and home or community-based capacity designed to reduce reliance on emergency, criminal legal, crisis, and involuntary services (emphasis added ) , among other actions.

Legal

Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2025

This laid some of the legal ground work for the use of seclusion and restraint we have now. 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. This facility still exists.

Hospitality

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. This should be done in all countries.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She insisted that I was mentally ill and should be taken to the Cowdy Ward, the psychiatric abuse facility at the Royal Darwin Hospital. She stalked the police car to the hospital. She advised the hospital that my ex-husband, children, friends, and family should refrain from contacting me. I was terrified. I wanted to leave.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Between hospitalizations, I bounced between my biological family until I ultimately became a ward of the state at about age twelve. No more hospitalizations, no more being a ward of the state? It’s the way that beast devours you by degrees, by inches. Then it was foster and group homes. Wait, what? Emancipation? No more of this?

Hospitality

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. But to her and everyone who saw me I remained seemingly coherent, intelligent and threatening with legal action if they tried injecting anything. She took me to three in the city, big ones.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 3, 2025

Wilson finally, with the legal help of his family, regained his autonomy and with it his ability to make decisions about his own life. When psychiatric treatment begins after involuntary hospitalization, we consider it to be forced treatment. I lived the experience of being subjected to psychiatry as shown in the film.

Legal

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. Instead, the police and paramedics loaded me into an ambulance and drove me to the military base hospital nearby. They didn’t go away.

Trauma and the brain

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. And yet it’s required to document itself as if it weren’t any different, and this language, as with all of health care, become the basis for billing, proving policy compliance, and legal protection. His confusion was warranted.

Poverty and mental health

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Pictured above, Prof Geraldine McCarthy delivered a talk titled ‘Nursing Home Liaison and Hospital Liaison Demonstration Sites, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Be.’ ’ Last week, the College Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age held its annual residential meeting at the Glasson Lakehouse Hotel.

Legal

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MAY 19, 2025

A piece in the Irish Examiner by Ann Murphy on the 17th of May entitled ‘Indifference to HHC dangers’ featured Dr Bobby Smyth, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and chair of the addictions faculty and Dr Colin O’Gara, consultant psychiatrist and head of addiction services at St John of God University Hospital.

Legal

Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

I was hospitalized two or three times in a psychiatric unit. When I was in the hospital, I got peer support. I use the term behavioral health to describe a system of mental health, substance use, and adjacent related service networks (legal systems, primary care, housing, etc.) Im a strong believer in self-exploration.

Poverty and mental health

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MARCH 6, 2025

These provisions can carry hidden costs, leaving named insured parties to unfairly shoulder financial and legal burdens. Hospital contracts : In suicide risk assessments, errors by emergency room staff (e.g., What Is an Additional Insured Endorsement?

Insurance

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

When I was in my training around many psychiatrists while interning in hospitals and other institutional settings, it was only those rare disgruntled resident psychiatrists whose company I enjoyed; and so I found myself rephrasing Charles Bukowski, saying, “I don’t hate psychiatrists, but I feel better when they are not around.”

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 5, 2025

After all, LLMs have become notorious for generating falsehoods , including fake citations and made-up studies in incredibly important contexts like government healthcare reports and legal settings like courtrooms. They exacerbate biases , which can be especially problematic in healthcare and law.

Education

Lightwork

APRIL 17, 2025

Surgical Care Reduces post-operative nausea and vomiting Aids in faster recovery after anesthesia Improves patient comfort during hospital stays 3. While doctors can legally prescribe medications for off-label uses, this practice requires careful consideration of potential risks and benefits.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Clear Behavioral Health

MARCH 17, 2025

This is a possibility especially if your loved one is getting into legal trouble. You might start going to treatment 5 days a week during a partial hospitalization program (PHP) then step down to an intensive outpatient program (IOP) which meets three days a week. Call us today to get started.

Bipolar disorder

Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Use the Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale ( PAWSS ) to predict risk of severe/complicated alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients. AUD is a chronic relapsing disorder; long-term follow-up is key. Keep in mind that it is common for people to abuse several substances at once. Potentially life-threatening condition.

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric News

JULY 24, 2023

In New York City, for example, you could find yourself forcibly hospitalized for suspected mental illness if you carry firmly held beliefs not congruent with cultural ideas , exhibit a willingness to engage in meaningful discussion, have excessive fears of specific stimuli, or refuse voluntary treatment recommendations.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

Legal

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The CRPD declared that people with disabilities should enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as everyone else, and, in essence, declared that forced treatment and forced hospitalization should end. Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.

Legal

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Much as the court-watching movement shines a light on the unjust workings of the criminal-legal system , Shield activists show up to virtual hearings like Russell’s as witnesses to the injustices of the civil commitment system. Why does a religious organization have legal rights over a man’s life and body in a supposedly secular state?”

Legal

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I stared straight ahead, out the window that faced another part of the hospital. I don’t know if there is a custom of modesty in hospitals. He also doesn’t seem to have any further idea of ​​whether there is a low-key custom in hospitals or not, because he had raised his voice several decibels. Do you want it legal?

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

For over fifty years in America, pro-force family advocacy organizations, closely allied with the medical and judicial establishments, have worked to roll back the clock to the days when they had more legal control over the lives of those under their care. That’s really what it came down to.”

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That is, the legal framework and policies and practices for services and support still need to be created, because it is still very institutional, is what activists there have told me, but there are all these reforms underway. I started the book project for two reasons.

Poverty and mental health