Remove Confidentiality Remove Interviewing Remove PTSD
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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

It does detail however that 25% of those interviewed - i.e. 20 people - felt that they became victims of violence specifically because of their mental health status.) It's worth noting, too, that only 15 of these 81 individuals suffered schizophrenia ; 40 suffered depression, 8 PTSD, 10 personality disorder, etc.