Download or read book Psych Ward Chronicles written by True George and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the experience of life taking place in a psychiatric ward. The accounts of the characters are based on their real-life counterparts. Description of who sponsors the Psychiatric institution; details the experience of the side effects of medication, inappropriate relationships, release, and readmittance; abandonment, frustration, race relations; rule violations; personality expressions; mother issues; delusionary expectations; suicide attempt and escaping.The human element of being emotionally disturbed coupled with mental illness and how individuals cope according to their situation.
Download or read book Psych Ward Chronicles II written by True George and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten short stories of the soap-opera environment in a state-sanctioned congregate care level II facility for the mentally ill, aka support house for independent living. The support house is privately owned and operated. Stories follow the challenges as experienced by residents and staff.
Download or read book THE PSYCH WARD NOTES written by Peter Schorr and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when your first memories of life and conscious awareness centered around death and mental illness? You end up with a mental illness or illnesses. This book is an autobiography/documentary about Peter Vox, a retired school teacher and professional musician from Long Island, NY who has spent his life battling anxiety, depression and existential sadness. This book chronicles Peter's childhood, the origins of his mental illnesses, history with medications, decades spent in therapy, marriage, careers, journals written from psychiatric hospitals and theories on how to handle your own mental illness. Furthermore, it's also a book about learning from past mistakes, accepting your flaws, focusing on your positive attributes, accepting help from others and realizing that there are opportunities to start over in life if you are open minded and willing to make small changes. Along with chronicles of Peter's struggles are highly amusing anecdotes about Peter's life that show the happy go lucky person that lives somewhere in all of us.
Download or read book Crazy All the Time written by Frederick L. Covan and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CRAZY ALL THE TIME, Frederick L. Covan, Ph.D., chief psychologist at Bellevue Hospital, takes you behind the gates and into the psych ward of one of the world's most famous mental institutions. With razor-sharp insight and great compassion, Covan follows the lives of a group of young interns and the unforgettable patients they are committed to serve, including Brenda, a paranoid schizophrenic who claims she has slept with six presidents; Matthew, a silent, tormented young man who cut off his own penis with a pair of pinking shears; and Gloria, a severely depressed dermatologist with a panic reaction to the sight of skin. Balancing the delicate line between normalcy and pathology, theory and reality, CRAZY ALL THE TIME explores the dark moods and outrageous behaviors of both doctors and patients in a place where madness reigns and disorder is the order of the day. "A wonderful book . . . Superbly written . . . Nothing short of perfect." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Download or read book Psych Ward written by J.W. Ochoa McManus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carlisle, a young, intelligent, and imaginative boy is sent to a psych ward without knowing why. This was no ordinary psych ward. Patients here, including John, were abused by those meant to treat them. Extraordinary methods were used to “keep them in line.” As John cries for help, to other patients and those he trusts, he receives only a deaf ear. How can he find the hope for help when everyone fears they will undergo the same harsh treatment felt by the patients at the psych ward? John can only tolerate this treatment for so long. What will he do to escape this living hell? Read this suspenseful thriller to see how John’s twisted imagination sets him free.
Download or read book Mental Ward written by Jennifer Loring and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanatorium, mental ward, psychiatric hospital - they're all the same. Places where the infirm, the crazy, and the certifiable go for treatment... Or what passes for 'treatment'. This is a collection of stories of bedlam taking place within the padded walls of an institution. Stories of experiments gone wrong, patients revolting against the staff, or even the deranged doings of those charged with giving care. They are sick, depraved, and atrocious - the type of stories that rarely reach the light of day. Are you brave enough to crawl inside the minds of the twelve authors who wrote these tales... Or are you afraid you'll be locked up for peeking?
Download or read book Rabbits for Food written by Binnie Kirshenbaum and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer’s slide into depression and institutionalization. It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum’s protagonist—an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer—fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment. Instead, she passes the time chronicling the lives of her fellow “lunatics” and writing a novel about what brought her there. Her story is a brilliant and brutally funny dive into the disordered mind of a woman who sees the world all too clearly. Propelled by razor-sharp comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of—or into—the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief. A bravura literary performance from one of our most indispensable writers.
Download or read book My Lovely Wife written by Mark Lukach and published by Bluebird. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that she was the devil and that her loved ones were not safe. All she wanted was to die. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach's is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife's mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love.
Download or read book Psych Ward written by Roxanne Edwards and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readmission" is the second book of the Psych Ward Series. It contains three very different stories about people whose mental stability may seem a bit stange yet interesting. There are a lot of real life situations that take a bunch of strange twists and turns . Warning- In this book you will find murder, betrayal and mystery.
Download or read book In Patient written by Jymi Cliche and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a person know if they're sane? Ren isn't sure. She's just about to turn fifteen. Adulthood is coming and she doesn't plan to live that long. She needs a break from reality so she checks herself into The Coldwater House for Adolescents at Claymore Psychiatric Hospital in August of 1993. The Coldwater House holds a diverse group of kids from ages nine to seventeen with various mental illnesses. They bond together to heal from the stress at home and inside the system. Ren learns more about music, art, poetry, gender, sexuality, mental illness, addictions, and the corrupt ways of society, along with basic coping skills to prevent relapse and suicidal behavior. Ren is a queer poet who dreams of being a rapper and her time inside the psych ward helps to shape the person she will become. Although it is fiction, this book is based on a true story from the author's experience and it helps to paint a picture of why mental health treatment is still an important issue to this day.
Download or read book Crazy all the time written by Frederick L. Covan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psych Ward written by Carlson Trenee R. N. Zweigle and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although all the patient statements and situations in this book are true, all names, places and events are changed to protect the privacy of all individuals, families, and facilities. It is unfortunate that many people do not understand the mentally ill, and become angry or are frightened by them. Mentally ill persons can be very interesting, creative, intelligent, and even enjoyable to be with. Today there are many breakthroughs in psychiatry both in medications and treatment methods, which were not even thought possible years ago.
Download or read book Girl Interrupted Twice written by H R Hatton and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you write locked in a psych ward? G. I. T. I. W. T. T. P. W. S. Y. D. H. T. was written over the course of the final 19 of 23 days spent inpatient at the NY Presbyterian Westchester Campus Psych Ward between November and December, 2020. It's poetry, scrutiny, self reflection, prophecy, love, fear, darkness, light. It captures the state of the mental health system and readers keep Heather company as she writes away the hours. She plays with concepts of time and space, rewrites We Didn't Start the Fire into We Didn't Start the Crazy, swoons over a relationship, faces all things that are making her anxious, introduces all things that came at intake and much from onsite workshops. This is a snapshot of a moment in time in psychiatric care, 23 days of incarceration against her will and randomly medicated. She had not planned to be an inpatient in a psych ward, but has no memory from 3pm Nov 21st until 1:30pm Nov 22nd. She was taken by ambulance to the NY Presbyterian on Gold Street in New York City's Financial District from a hotel where she had spent two nights. The hospital subsequently released her at 4:00pm and she returned without any belongings or even the coat on her back or glasses on her face at 5:30pm. She was sedated until Nov 22nd 1:30pm and was told she was being taken to a psychiatric facility. Heavily sedated, she had absolutely no control over this decision. The first week there she had no glasses, though she made arrangements to receive contact lenses Nov 25th, they were received but held until November 30th."The facility was pleasant and even has a pool during the summer. Most all rooms were single instead of double it being quarantine, there were two large tvs and the food was good despite the constant rotation."23 days is longer than the typical stay and Heather was told they were extending her stay due to the extenuating circumstances of her arrival at the Gold Street location. It's all a mystery. A day disappeared cost 23 days of her life. This is the background of the writing. At least something has come of the stay. H.R.H. works as an artist @hrh.nyc in Brooklyn, where she enjoys the company of her betta fish Mojo, an abundance of plantlife, and the sparrows and doves that come to her fire escape. She has been writing poetry since she spoke her first words, "Look my new blue shoes!" She was a slam poet in the New York scene circa 1999-2001. This is the first assembled and polished novel that she has published solo. She has one additional book on Amazon, a translation of The Book of the Law. She hopes everyone can see the hope in these words amidst the struggles with time, family and love. Additionally, H.R.H. is the Principal Broker at Realestatic, a Commercial Real Estate Firm in Williamsburg Brooklyn. You may also know her as an artist, having had solo abstract art shows at Space 776 and at a coworking space in Brooklyn. Maybe you went to one of her gallery events at Club 157 circa 2016-17, or her involvement in Northern Brooklyn, the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce or Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce. Over the years she boasts membership in a wide variety of societies and associations. She is a graduate of the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch in Entrepreneurial Management with minors in Corporate Social Responsibility, Information Technology and Advanced Business Analysis. Heather graduated Baruch in 2016. She has previously been a student at Fordham University, Scranton University, Keystone University, The Ivy Institute and The New York Real Estate Institute. She maintains both a real estate broker license and insurance broker license. In her free time she is working on her own concept of the perfectly functioning urban environment."Publishing my work is an exercise in visibility. May we all be visible and see others. May this be the start of something wonderful."
Download or read book Psych Ward written by Roxanne M. Edwards and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book full of bank robberies, killings and ghost? This book is the first of a Series. It gives you three stories that will have you questioning your mental stability and have you on the edge of your chair. All three stories are urban mysteries that will pull you from your reality. Or not.
Download or read book Psych Ward written by Aaron-Bowen Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives They Left Behind written by Darby Penney and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients' belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. In this fully-illustrated social history, they are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving-and devastating-group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
Download or read book Psych Ward Genius written by Auston M. Pratt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story offers you a chance to explore the struggle and internalize the triumphant fight of a young life interrupted by the day-to-day climb of battling with a mental illness. Travel with the author who, at the age of fifteen, presents a realistic account of the fear, uncertainty, and confusion of a life-altering illness he is determined to conquer. With sincere compassion, he offers hope to teenagers who may struggle to gain back the confidence that one day life will blossom again.
