By Jennifer K. Woldt |of The Northwestern

Prosecutors say they will recommend a former psychiatrist serve time in prison for having inappropriate sexual contact with a patient he was treating.

Charles D. Morgan, 62, of Neenah pleaded no contest two counts of sexual exploitation by a therapist during a plea hearing before Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Barbara Key Thursday. In exchange for his plea, two counts of third-degree sexual assault will be dismissed.

Morgan, who was practicing with Affinity Behavioral Health at the time of the contact, faces 25 years in prison and $25,000 in fines when he is sentenced Feb. 27. Key ordered a pre-sentence investigation be completed before sentencing.
Read the rest…

A state official says authorities are investigating allegations of two recent rapes at a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas.

Police say they are looking at alleged sex assaults on Nov. 14 and Nov. 21 at the Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital. Authorities aren’t saying whether the assaults were reported to hospital officials, whether there were witnesses, or whether they were stopped by employees.

by Lorna Benson, Minnesota Public Radio
December 15, 2008

A Minnesota man undergoing electro-convulsive therapy goes before a judge in St. Paul on Tuesday to try to stop the court-ordered procedure. Ray Sandford says he’s losing his memory after having more than 30 treatments so far. His doctors have argued that the procedure is necessary to treat Sandford’s psychotic episodes. Minnesota, like many other states, does not track the number of forced ECTs.

St. Paul, Minn. — Ray Sandford has been getting electro-convulsive treatment, also known as electroshock and ECT, since the end of May. For Ray, the process works like this. Every week or two he is taken to a hospital, where a medical technician attaches electrodes to his head and delivers electrical current into his brain. The current causes a seizure.

Read the rest…

Haunted by the sight of a loved one in danger

By Christina Jewett and Robin Fields

November 23, 2008
Read the rest…

Petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html

What would you do if your child was mentally screened at school and diagnosed with mental disorders without your permission? That happened to this mother, Teresa Rhoades

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.

Read the rest…

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.

Read the rest…

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

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.

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.

Manzoor Qadir

LAHORE: A number of patients at the Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH) have attempted suicide, as the executive director changed the modus operandi of treatment owing to non-availability of quality anti-depressants, allege doctors on the condition of anonymity on Sunday.
Lately, nine patients-Nadeem Mubeen, Zulqarnain Hyder, Irfan, Zaman, Tazeem, Bushra Bibi, Nazim Ali, Rahat Jabeen and Tariq Nazir- tried to end their lives.

Earlier, two patients also committed suicide but the administration instead of taking preventive measures tried to hush-up the matter.

Read the rest…