Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas. Broken trust It wasn’t just the doctors I’d lost trust in.

Trauma and the brain 134

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 134

Clear Behavioral Health

JUNE 16, 2025

You may face internal conflicts and external pressures that deter gender expression as well as affect your self-esteem and mental well-being. An affirming therapist will provide a supportive environment where you can navigate these challenges and achieve greater self-acceptance and authenticity.

Resilience and coping 52

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Healthcare Self-awareness 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2025

I wasnt aware that a retail store could have a jail. He said that if I were in the hospital when my court case came up, the judge would probably throw the case out of court. He drove me to the hospital. Like most people spent most of their time bouncing in and out of psych hospitals. My father bailed me out. Out to what?

Retail 112

Retail Sleep and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 112

Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. ” Yet, all the elements describing that cursed disorder, except for the tendency to engage in random fights with strangers, appeared to mirror my own self. It was a wholly unfamiliar dynamic they had never encountered before.

Eating disorders 121

Eating disorders Bipolar disorder Self-awareness Personality disorders 121

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?

Sleep and mental health 108

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 108

ADDitude

MARCH 27, 2025

My tendency to self-isolate. Take This Self-Test: Autism in Girls ] But thats just the tip of the iceberg. I was misdiagnosed, hospitalized, over-medicated, and left without improvement or answers. I hope my perspective can help other women with auDHD expand their own awareness and become inspired to advocate, too.

Self-awareness 86

Self-awareness Hospitality Education Autism spectrum 86

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

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. Case 2 “Mr Jones” is 45 years old and works the night shift as a security guard at a large office complex.

Bipolar disorder 52

Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Eating disorders Self-awareness 52

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 90

Hospitality Self-awareness Legal 90

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.

Sleep and mental health 120

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services 120

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 107

Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 107

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.

Sleep and mental health 135

Sleep and mental health Healthcare Construction Self-awareness 135

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.

Pharmaceuticals 145

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Biopsychosocial model Hospitality 145

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.

Early intervention 126

Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 126

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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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness Personality disorders 52

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.

Art therapy 52

Art therapy Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health 52

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.

Poverty and mental health 145

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.”.

Self-awareness 110

Self-awareness Construction Pharmaceuticals Technology 110

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.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 145

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.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 52

ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

The study says diagnoses are following greater awareness and less stigma, along with improved education, training, and symptom recognition, particularly in historically overlooked girls, women , and racial and ethnic minorities. Self-harm as the first presentation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adolescents. in the U.S.

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Education Eating disorders Self-awareness Aging and mental health 101

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.

Hospitality 86

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 86

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.

Trauma and the brain 81

Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Hospitality 81

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.

Self-awareness 116

Self-awareness Aging and mental health Hospitality Breathing techniques 116

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.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 143

Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Biopsychosocial model 143

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.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Resilience and coping 126

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?

Hospitality 124

Hospitality Self-awareness Construction Education 124

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.

Trauma and the brain 143

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

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.

Aging and mental health 144

Aging and mental health Insurance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 144

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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Hospitality Self-awareness Childhood trauma 100

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.

Genetics and mental health 140

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 140

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.

Legal 145

Legal Self-awareness Global mental health Hospitality 145

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.”

Sleep and mental health 137

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 137

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.

Pharmaceuticals 144

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Education Construction 144

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.

Poverty and mental health 135

Poverty and mental health Legal Self-awareness Nonprofits 135

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.”

Sleep and mental health 129

Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 129

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.

Trauma and the brain 130

Trauma and the brain Legal Self-awareness Technology 130

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.

Trauma and the brain 83

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Hospitality 83