Travels Through Psychiatry

  What do you do, what do you do--  if you won’t go see psychiatrists or social workers or psychologists or any such associated people any longer, but…you still have issues that bother you?   That’s every person’s choice, how they want to heal, recover, break free, or whichever term frames it best. For me, since art and writing always get to the most honest part of me, my heart and soul, turning to those tools makes sense.   In the early part of my psych drug withdrawal, illness sapped all my energy, but I could sit at the computer and play with previously saved images of my art. What a great way to express my anger, hook into myself, appreciate where I’d been in life, overcome betrayal and disappointment, and begin easing the constant wish to just die already. I shared what I was doing on social media and found that others related and discovered their own messages within my images, which led me to consider more of what I was trying to reveal to myself.   These ...

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 For those visiting this blog, maybe just coming across it, who'd like to know why I'm critical of psychiatry, please read my piece published in Mad in America. (Click link below.) Reckless Psychiatric Treatment Spun Me Out of Control

 In this post, I've gathered online photos of psychiatric facilities operated by all fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia that accept involuntary inpatient admissions, some from criminal courts, some via other means of legal psychiatric detention orders. I've organized these pictures into geographical regions, and then by state, with each facility identified by its name on the photo. This list is not complete. State mental/behavioral health departments also contract with private and corporate health care facilities to obtain beds for involuntary patients. I have not included places which are specific to housing child, adolescent, or geriatric populations. This compilation may not be a perfect accounting; take it for what it is. PACIFIC REGION: Alaska California Hawaii Oregon Washington ROCKY MOUNTAIN: Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada Utah Wyoming SOUTHWEST: Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma Texas MIDWEST: Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebras...