Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

He has been on an antipsychotic medication to treat schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, for 12 years. He had multiple hospitalizations for psychotic and manic decompensations in his 20s, but he has done well over the past 10 years, which you attribute both to his medication adherence and minimal psychosocial stressors.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

You identify two main drivers behind this rise: first, the explosion of pharmaceutical advertising in the 1990s, and second, the growing expectation that we must constantly market and network ourselves as prerequisites for a successful life. Take multiple personality disorder , for example.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.

Biopsychosocial model

Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Think about this: people with psychosis are locked in hospitals against their will and forcibly injected with tranquilizing drugs because psychiatry says that they are not capable of making their own treatment decisions. How, then, could they miss that capacity when they locked them in the hospital and drugged them against their will?

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. But I remained well, and finally, the detention order was lifted. What had happened to the norm?

Hospitality

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

He said that I had to be taken to my local hospital immediately because I was a danger to myself and others. At my local hospital, the nurses treated me like a criminal. Slamming me onto the hospital bed, two policemen manually restrained my wrists to the unforgiving frame with metal handcuffs. Nothing I said to him mattered.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

The same is true of attempts to reframe other diagnostic labels as ‘identities’—including the most contentious, ‘borderline personality disorder’ which, it is suggested, can be ‘destigmatised’ through ‘ neuroqueer feminism ’. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Johnson, M.

Trauma and the brain