“Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays,” I croon, strumming a borrowed guitar. I’m attempting to be quiet enough to not overshadow others’ conversations while still setting a merry vibe ...

Schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, bipolar. All words that make most people uncomfortable due to a lack of information, misinformation and stigma around mental health. But one nurse has ...

This is what the psych ward looks like: A small building off the interstate, brick, and unobtrusive. The reception room is covered in plush blue. An admissions office spurs off to one side, and two ...

“Are you a cutter?” the medical aide asked me, gearing to strap a blood pressure monitor around my upper arm to take my vitals at 11 o’clock one evening. I had entered the psychiatric unit, or as it ...

*A New York City model is taking legal action after she was wrongly committed to a psychiatric ward, stripped naked, and drugged. Abeba Davis, 39, says she visited the emergency room at Queens the ...

TAMPA, FLORIDA, USA, January 9, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- “Most C-Suite executives do not trade a corner office for a room at the psych ward” reads the headline ...

At parties, I used to explain to people who wanted to know what I do — I’m a psychiatrist — that caring for people with mental illness on a psych ward is like working in a place apart from the world.

In 2016, I was admitted to a psych ward, where I fell for another patient. We connected quickly and were honest with each other about why we were there. When he rejected me, I realized I'd just been ...

In the acute psych wards I’ve been in, there is a kind of paranoia about music – that it’s a dangerous force which could unravel the whole system, make the patients go mad(der), induce an uprising, ...