voluntary madness lost and found in the mental healthcare system

After much tussling, eye rolling, starving, phone calls, I got sprung in 4 days and am scarred for life. I hated every living breathing second of it and spent those 4 days alternatively slamming doors, starving as I would not eat that garbage they classified as food and strangling the staff with the bra that they had confiscated from me upon admittance (along with my my drawers, rest of my clothes, my jewelry including my cross and religious medals ).

Having a recent ( first and definitely last ) 4 day stay in the psych ward of a local hospital ( not a City owned hospital - supposed private, but nothing like her 2nd ward ), I found the conditions, rules, patients and behavior of the staff has mirrored her first hospital to a 't'. changing attitudes to support dignity and autonomy.I could not make up my mind between giving this book 3 or 4 stars but decided to be generous and give it 4. available effective psychosocial interventions and 3.

This chapter emphasizes historical, current, and intersectional perspectives and challenges to three factors we believe are essential to changing our system: 1. Mental health professionals can, and should, play a central role in supporting recovery for people with psychosis, changing harmful messages and stigma, and in advocating for the dissemination and availability of psychosocial interventions for psychosis. This limits research, services available, and dissemination of proven interventions, even when they have empirical support and result in long-term cost savings. Mental health stigma endures, both in society and as reflected in poor funding, workforce development, and implementation. For many Americans who experience psychosis, medication and risk management remain the focus of treatment despite the long history of effective psychosocial treatments for psychosis.

Images of disability and dangerousness are visible in our society and media, but we don’t see the millions of people who have lived well with or despite psychosis. What is less commonly known is the ample evidence for recovery. “It is common knowledge that psychosis and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are often associated with disability and suffering.

Voluntary madness lost and found in the mental healthcare system