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Tag Archives: shock treatment
“A Choice, of Sorts”
This morning’s Facebook has brought a paper by Dr. Rachel Bingham about “voluntary” psychiatric hospital. She references Dr. Peter Breggin and what she calls the “Breggin gap” referring to the coercion that keeps a supposedly voluntary patient locked up. Good … Continue reading
Posted in Community General Hospital, doctor, drugs, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, NYS Office of Mental Health, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, St. Joseph's Hospital, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
Tagged anger, Ativan, choice, coercion, doctor, drugs, ECT, force, forcible drugging, Four-point, freedom, handcuffs, hospital, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, involuntary, key, locked door, Lorazepam, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, Patient, Peter Breggin, power, psychiatric hospital, Psychiatry, shock treatment, St. Joseph's Hospital, straightjacket, tie-down, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center, Upstate University Hospital, voluntary
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St. Joseph’s Hospital: About Carol (Part III)
Tuesday night Carol and I both sleep well, and Wednesday morning we are both up and dressed by 7:30 a.m. She wishes for something to drink. I explain to her that Cathy, the night nurse, will not give out … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged boredom, dehydration, depression, ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, inpatient psychiatry, IV, malnutrition, medication, night nurse, nurse hostility, psychiatric pateint, shock treatment, St. Joseph's Hospital, Unit 3-6
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St. Joseph’s Hospital: About Carol (Part II)
I talk to Carol, and she takes an interest. She responds. The second day we share a room, she stops closing the door and the blinds every time I walk out. She lets me and the light in. This … Continue reading
St. Joseph’s: About Carol (Part 1)
Carol is in her sixties, a small-boned woman with reddish-brown hair. She is diagnosed as acutely depressed. She lies in bed under the covers with her back to the door. She lays in the dark with the door and … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged dehydration, depression, ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, inpatient psychiatry, medication, Prozac, psych staff, psychiatric patient, psychiatris nurse, seasonal affective disorder, shock treatment, St. Jose[h's Hospital, Unit 3-6
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St. Joseph’s Inpatient Psychiatry: About “Lynn”
“Lynn” is the divorced mother of two children who are both doing well in school. She has stable employment and is a devout Christian. She is an African-American woman who is intelligent and soft-spoken—a quietly kind person. Lynn is on … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, St. Joseph's Hospital
Tagged alter ego, childhood rape, constant observation, depression, DID, Dissociative identity disorder, ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, inpatient psychiatry, judgment, multiple personality disorder, observation, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, punishment, self-destructive behavior, severe depression, shock treatment, social worker Kyle, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, Unit 3-6
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About the Author: Anne C Woodlen (Part VI)
[Ooops, sorry! I got things out of order and didn’t post the last section of my history. What’s the point if you don’t know how it turns out in the end? Tomorrow we’ll go back to the story of being … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness
Tagged aides, Antidepressant, Benjamin Rush Center, Community General Hospital, CPEP, depression, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, ECT, Four Winds, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, immunology, inpatient psychiatry, mental health, Mental Health Association, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Mental Patientns Liberation Alliance, National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, NYS Office of Mental Health, physician, power, powerlessness, psychiatric patient, psychology, shock treatment, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, Unique Peerspectives, Upstate Medical Center
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About the Author: Anne C Woodlen (Part III)
In 1992, I went shopping. I interviewed a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a social worker for the privilege of becoming my next therapist. The psychologist, Paul M. Cohen, Ph.D., won and we worked together mostly twice a week for the … Continue reading
Posted in Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness
Tagged Antidepressant, antidepressants, Benjamine Rush Center, bipolar depression, Bipolar disorder, case management, doctors, Dr. Jane Kou, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, ECT, Four Winds, Health, hospital, inpatient psychiatry, Major depressive disorder, Medicare, medications, Medicine, mental health, Mental Health Associaiton, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, NYS Office of Mental Health, Patient, Paul M. Cohen, pharmaceuticals, psychiatric diagnoses, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, psychologist, shock treatment, Social Security Disability, social worker, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, therapist, Transitional Living Services, Unique Peerspectives, Upstate Medical Center
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