Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

Intrusive thoughts or flashbacks of a traumatic event are similar to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Experts agree that regardless of culture, a "nervous breakdown" means that the individual is no longer able to do his " normal functioning " due to extreme emotional or psychological distress or a psychiatric condition.

Disorder 96

Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Anxiety 96

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Medicare 52

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Diversity Psychiatry Schizophrenia 52

University of Connecticut

MAY 8, 2023

My field placement is with Wellmore Behavioral Health in Waterbury, where I am an Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services clinician. In this role, I work in the homes and communities of families to provide therapy services to young people at risk of hospitalization or being placed out of the home for psychiatric reasons.

Justice and Corrections 52

Justice and Corrections LMSW Schools Mental Health 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52