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. On the 3rd of October 2023 when he went to hospital for the last time I had a meeting with my soon-to-be PhD supervisor, online. When will they self-reflect on the nature of their care?

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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.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I was still under the “care” of the Early Intervention Service as an outpatient but after my treatment in hospital I didn’t want my life to be intervened in by mental health professionals. Unlike after my first admission I internalised my new self-image as a bipolar psychiatric patient and it ended up literally disabling me.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Violence may be the unfortunate consequence (one may try to attack the rope) as one gives way to crazy thoughts, and this is when family call in and the police arrive and one is locked up in the mental hospital with most human rights removed, and then given tranquilizer drugs. How did I accomplish this, you may ask?

Neurotransmitters and mental health 104

Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 104

Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. Be it politicians, hospital managers, welfare bureaucrats, supervisory bodies, children’s services, psychiatrists, doctors or psychologists.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. We don’t know.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take.

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My Psychiatry

APRIL 15, 2025

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex mental health condition marked by intense emotions, unstable relationships, a fluctuating self-image, and impulsive behaviors. TMS is drug-free, involves no systemic side effects, and does not require anesthesia or hospitalization. What is Quiet BPD? Is quiet BPD common?

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Lightwork

JANUARY 30, 2025

This type of therapy is different from traditional talk therapy because it lets you explore your inner self through creative expression. This multi-modal approach can unlock deeper levels of healing and self-discovery that traditional therapy alone might not access. It provides them with a safe space for self-discovery and healing.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. This shut down can result in complete immobilization or a fear of such immobilization, both of which are psychologically painful, and this can result in the pain of self-loathing and shame.

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. In 1931, Horatio Pollock, of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, conducted a long-term study of 2,700 depressed patients hospitalized from 1909 to 1920.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 145

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. Interactions Between Ondansetron and Mental Health Medications: What You Need to Know Women taking mental health medications need to be aware of potential interactions with ondansetron.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.

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Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

But within a year of publication, I was back in hospital, relapsed apparently. So by 2019, I was acutely aware of the importance of putting right my views which were already out in the public arena. Cathy: In 2007, I was discharged from the six-month hospital admission for relapse on a cocktail of four different drugs.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital. Moncrieff: I was aware when I was still a fairly junior trainee psychiatrist that there were other people who were similarly critical of the mainstream medical model. Self-identity changed and their use of these medications changed. Moncrieff: Yes.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Biopsychosocial model 144

Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

Soon after mentioning these experiences to my local doctor and the minister of the church I attended, I was certified insane and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. I was also acutely embarrassed and ashamed about what had happened to me so I tried to hide my experiences from everyone, even to the point of self-denial.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I Authored by psychiatrist Marshall Garrick, this article provides a window to the cultural values of psychiatry, and how self-serving rationalizations are considered artful diplomacy.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 144

Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

I was trained as a psychiatrist working in a general hospital, and I was the consultant to the dialysis unit in our hospital. Or, in mainstream psychiatry in North America today, its the opposite claim: that it’s all really about the brain, and consciousness and awareness are just epiphenomena.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Time to put up, I began writing… They rode in silence to Fair Oaks Hospital, parents aching for the recovery of a broken child. You must trust us to treat him in the way we know best; otherwise he could be in a mental hospital for the rest of his life. Is what my family encountered truly different, better now than 50 years ago?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help. And too often he retreated to superficial, self-help maxims—“there is no such thing as perfect”—a “look on the bright side” attitude that trivialized my concerns.

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Mad in America

JULY 12, 2024

I speculate now about withdrawal akathisia, extreme sleep deprivation, spiritual awakening, deep awareness, empathy and sensory experiencing, an invalidating environment, defensiveness, corruption and spiritual attack. Simultaneously, however, the return to work brought a return of some element of self-worth. I was contributing.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Psychiatry asserts that it has the medical authority to deem certain people “mentally ill,” and that such people can be forcibly treated because they suffer from “anosognosia” and thus lack awareness that they are ill and in need of treatment.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I Gretchen didn’t take the cue to move on from the self-injury talk, and kept pushing, and centering the responsibility for my ‘safety’ in others, rather than myself. Right now self injuring is helping.”

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 135

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

But coercion and force are baked deeply into these laws, from the “ Black Robe effect ” resulting from a judge’s presence in the room; to treatment orders that one usually has little say in or choice over; to the ever-present possibility of forced evaluation, hospitalization, or conservatorship for noncompliance.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. Two weeks later, both the NP and Matt’s counselor called me and said they must drop Matt as a patient, recommending an outpatient hospital detox program and a “higher level of care.”

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 125

Mad in America

MAY 7, 2025

This was for people who had been discharged from or who were avoiding stays in psychiatric hospitals. Im defining an audience as a bunch of strangers who are aware of each other and are reacting together and reacting to each other. I watched a session in the hospital. The house was modeled to a degree after the Soteria Project.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 110

Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you believe their adherence to this metaphor is hindering their progress, how do you introduce alternative metaphors or suggest a more nuanced understanding, especially when such a metaphor has become integral to their self-conception? This heightened awareness leads him to a breakdown. How do you handle this in practice?

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 139

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic. The patient has to come into the hospital or clinic twice a week for four weeks. or so for the hospital costs). If you think the Spravato drug is expensive you are quite right.

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Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. Sense of Self: People with BPD may struggle with knowing their true self. What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Personality disorders Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. At 16 she was forcefully hospitalized and became tethered to psychiatry for the rest of her life. A few years after the release of that film, I began adapting his writings for a cerebral, artful documentary.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

But when your sense of self is built through other people, cutting them off is not that easy In a place like India, it’s very common to just keep people you hate close to you. Because of this, theyre often aware of problems in the psychiatric field that clinicians in Western countries remain blind to.

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Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Sean just landed in the hospital after getting into a fight. Gaby is aware of her anxious attachment style: she says to Derrick she gets scared when she lets other people in, and then pushes them away. Louis needs this for his own self-forgiveness, and Jimmy was able to forgive Louis precisely because he learned to forgive himself.

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