Psych Observer – Exposing Bad Psychiatry

Submitted by DannyHaszard on August 22, 2008 – 12:33pm.

Eli Lilly sells a drug that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place! Zyprexa is the product name for Olanzapine,it is Lilly’s top selling drug.It was approved by the FDA in 1996 ,an ‘atypical’ antipsychotic a newer class of drugs without the motor side effects of the older Thorazine.
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JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF | Published: August 22, 2008

Once again, this state’s mental-health system has terribly failed. A mental patient at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro died some time after workers had left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding or helping him use the bathroom — even as they watched TV, played cards and chatted on a cell phone just a few feet away. That psychiatric hospital, and the state mental health-care system in general, must improve its care.

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TAMPA — In the wake of two recent suicides at Tampa General Hospital, federal regulators are threatening to stop Medicare funding to the hospital, citing serious safety problems in its psychiatric unit.

Regulators found psychiatric patients to be in “immediate jeopardy” in an investigation prompted by the suicides. The hospital has until Sept. 6 to fix the problems or lose funding, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Follow up to Beating Baker Act Abuse does a person have to take meds or therapy outpatient as part of the treatment plan.

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You may visit Beating the baker act Abuse Part 1

How to legally be discharged from prolonged involuntary psychiatric commitment or simply, how to Beat the Baker Act.

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Another great video from SFJane. I was delayed from having to post this video sooner because I was taking a long break from Youtube.  Please accept my apologies.

Cartoons about the psychiatrist’s couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum.

A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists.

The expanded use of pills and insurance policies that favor short office visits are among the reasons, said lead author Dr. Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

“The ‘couch,’ or, more generally, long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy, was for so long a hallmark of the practice of psychiatry. It no longer is,” he said.

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A 42-year-old patient at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Winslow was critically injured when she was punched in the head by another patient.

The assault was the latest in a series of incidents that have focused attention on the quality of patient care at the state’s largest psychiatric hospital.

Pedro Torres, 25, of Vineland was charged with second-degree aggravated assault after the attack July 30, according to state police Sgt. Julian Castellanos.

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