Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ For Barnes, the Shield volunteer, Russell’s experience reminds her of stories she’d been told about her maternal grandfather who was committed to a state hospital. But that number is so swamped. There are so many people needing help.

Legal 138

Legal Sleep and mental health Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals 138

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 144

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Education Construction 144

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The tragedy of Heather Armstrong’s death is that no one really knows why she took her own life, but I believe I do, and the drug manufacturers agree with me. 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.”

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 145

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 145

Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

Fentanyl : Although sometimes used in hospital settings, illicit fentanyl is also manufactured and distributed on the street. Heroin : An illegal opioid derived from morphine that is highly addictive and often laced with other substances. Today, real heroin is exceedingly rare, replaced mostly by fentanyl.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When the incident occurred, my panic-stricken mother told my father to take me to the hospital right away. Dr. Fulmer quickly pumped the drugs out of my stomach and told my father I would not have lived if he had tried to get me to the hospital. That was the statement made by Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, the manufacturer of Adderall.

Pharmaceuticals 142

Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Aging and mental health Nonprofits 142

Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2024

However, it is especially abhorrent when one is using manufactured diseases to torture someone into perpetual bondage, for profit, to possibly deadly ends. He repeatedly spoke out against misogyny, for some examples in Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry and The Maternity Hospital and The Mental Hospital.

Manufacturing 129

Manufacturing Bipolar disorder Hospitality Healthcare 129

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. Electroconvulsive Therapy, Manufacturers Liability, and Learned Intermediaries. Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment.

Aging and mental health 118

Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Manufacturing 118

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck. I worked at the same hospital for 22 years and during that time we went from providing care to anyone who walked in the door to care based on businesses telling us what to do.

Insurance 52

Insurance Healthcare Manufacturing Hospitality 52

Mad in America

MAY 9, 2025

Every unhappy, disrespectful, argumentative, disruptive, independent, strong-willed, or even docile daughter might be labelled crazy and committed to a mental hospital briefly or forever. The procedure reduced violence and agitation in patients and also achieved some improvement in hospital adjustment, asylum reports noted.

Hospitality 72

Hospitality Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing 72