All Posts Tagged With: "Mental hospitals"

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Bipolar Disorder ain’t a joke

Sometimes I forget how serious an illness Bipolar Disorder is.  My life has been going well the past five years. No major attacks of mania. No racing thoughts. No grandiosity. No horrible depressions. No trips to the hospital for “tune-ups.” When I was first in recovery those “tune-up” visits were a regular occurrence when the [...]

5Dec2009 | Carlton Davis | 0 comments | Continued
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Ex-patient of Controversial Mental Hospital Speaks Out

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Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, target of government investigations for numerous failures in patient care, is prominently featured in the memoir of an ex-patient who was treated twice at the facility. Once, walking away, the patient returned, only to have the hospital’s famed program for drug addiction led by Dr. Drew Pinsky of [...]

18Mar2009 | Carlton Davis | 5 comments | Continued