Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. The stigma around mental health What will people around me think if they find out I take psychiatric medication? You will see that they can be much more than “ just” meds. A lesser person?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatric Anxiety Recovery 52

Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

On the other hand, as a peer specialist, I have noticed that in hospital or peer support group settings, men are overrepresented. The only two occasions I went to the hospital for my mental health challenges were 1) generalized anxiety with panic disorder and 2) severe depression with psychotic events and suicide attempt.

Psychology 52

Psychology Mental Health Recovery Depression 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

I am completing my field education at Natchaug Hospital in an outpatient program for older adults experiencing mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician.

LMSW 52

LMSW Justice and Corrections Schools Mental Health 52

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Third, it will no longer be possible to detain a person with a learning disability or an autistic person under section 3 unless they have a co-occurring “psychiatric disorder” that warrants hospital treatment. This exclusion does not apply to part 3 patients (those in the criminal justice system).

Mental Health 59

Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 59

Beyond Advocacy

MAY 21, 2024

million individuals are held in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 142 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S.

Criminal Justice 52

Criminal Justice Justice and Corrections Substance Abuse Rehabilitation 52