Tag: mental illness

Insanity Defense

The Insanity Defense
“Another criticism involves the fact that courts frequently commit those acquitted of a crime to a mental institution. These institutions may have conditions as bad as, or worse than, a prison. Also, those held in mental institutions generally do not know if or when the institution will release them. According to Dr. Charles Patrick Ewing, author of “Insanity: Murder, Madness, and the Law,” most convicted people sent to mental institutions will spend more time in a mental institution than they would have if the court sentenced them to prison.”
https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/the-insanity-defense-history-and-background.html#:~:text=The%20American%20Law%20Institute’s%20(ALI,the%20act%20was%20criminal%3B%20or
As there is no scientific biomarker to prove that anyone has a mental disorder then it has not been established that there are any mental disorders. Therefore there can be no insanity defense for people labelled by psychiatry.
Most people who are under the influence of brain-damaging drugs may perform completely contrary and subconsciously violent actions. Many psychiatric drugs can cause violence yet this is not taken into consideration by most lawyers and psychiatrists.
It is an outrageous act of violence to incarcerate innocent people who have committed no crime. It is criminal to attack and force toxic, addictive, brain/body-damaging drugs on powerless people many of whom have already received discrimination and struggle to provide their basic needs.
Is it any wonder that people who have been medically raped, persecuted and imprisoned in psychiatric institutions are fearful! To make matters worse, they are then labelled ‘paranoid’!
Mary Maddock

Touch Starvation – Associated with Narcissist

This was treated like it was normal. Romantic gestures , kisses , hugs , intimacy were not part of marriage . It was deadly to my spirit and my soul , yet I held faith that change would come ..I think I became fearful of what life would be like with 3 small sons .. I learned to pick my battles in an time when there was soooo much going on . Discovering I had been responsible for everything except his day to day work, was daunting …

My body spoke to me when I quit smoking , Xanax covered and smothered my symptoms , as my highly sensitive self became an addict quickly and overdosed which was seen as bipolar ..

Touch was just one weapon in the brutality of a man at war , and is in charge ..

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Nellie Bly- Journalist undercover in an insane asylum

The trailblazing American journalist Nellie Bly began her record-breaking 72-day journey around the world on this day in 1889 — a trip which made her the first person to ever complete the fictional journey depicted in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”! A minimalist traveler, the 24-year-old Pittsburgh native brought with her only the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, a wool cap, a few changes of underwear, and a small handbag with her toiletries and writing supplies. She started the 24,899-mile journey from a port near New York City and traveled by steamship to England. From there, she traveled by train across Europe and Asia, by ocean liner across the Pacific Ocean, and by train from San Francisco back to New York. In total, her journey lasted 72 days, six hours, eleven minutes, and fourteen seconds, setting a new world record for fastest circumnavigation.

Bly, one of the earliest muckraking journalists, was also famous for her undercover investigative reports on corruption and social injustices. The year before her famous journey, Bly took an undercover assignment for the New York World where she feigned insanity to get herself committed to the New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Her work pioneered the realm of undercover journalism after she wrote an exposé on the horrific conditions and mistreatment of patients she found there. Bly’s series of articles led to a grand jury investigation and, subsequently, to improved care for the patients and increased funding for the care of people with mental illness.

Nellie Bly told the story of her historic journey in her book “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings” at https://www.amightygirl.com/around-world-seventy-two

For an inspiring new picture book about her journey around the world, we highly recommend “Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists’ Breakneck Race around the World” for ages 6 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/nellie-vs-elizabeth

For an excellent book for adult readers about Bly’s journey, we recommend “Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World” at https://www.amightygirl.com/eighty-days

For more books for kids about this pioneering journalist, check out the chapter book “She Persisted: Nellie Bly” for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-nellie-bly) and “Who Was Nellie Bly?” for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-was-nellie-bly)

And, for toys and games to ignite your Mighty Girl’s interest in traveling the world, visit our “Geography Toys” section at http://amgrl.co/1T0VKeS

10 Life Lessons I Learned as a Psychiatric Nurse – and Patient – Fabled Society

Often I am asked about how I went from being a psychiatric patient and homeless drug addict to being a registered nurse and a supervisor at some of these facilities. While there is no magical answer to that question, there certainly have been some valuable life lessons learned along the way. These are 10 of the…
— Read on fabledsociety.com/2023/11/10/__trashed-2/

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Researcher finds Intensive Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy reduced depressive symptoms in patients who did not improve with pharmacological treatment.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/11/depression-not-so-treatment-resistant-after-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/

Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View – Mad In America

The resistance to my ending my association with antidepressants was strong , but I did so . It takes much longer than stated to taper off and feel better for much is is involved , behaviorally and there was for me the trauma, the varied losses of my humanity and rights . My character was assassinated by ex and friends and family who were busy living their lives and trying to escape responsibilities and any association with mental illness .

It was a huge awakening that was quite unpleasant at times, horrific and very scary on my own.

Antidepressants are handed out like Pez candies with little thought to the many adverse reactions physically and trying to regain, rediscover just who you are under all that mind altering , soul snatching chemical straight jacket .Imagine all that as you are confirmed as misdiagnosed and all these RX were toxic to your body .

I present a middle ground on antidepressant withdrawal, where both sides are understood to have origins in wanting to help people.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/antidepressant-withdrawal-clinicians-middle-view/