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Psychiatric Confinement Through the Eyes of a Torture Survivor
One of the most important connections in my history is between the torture and trafficking I survived as a teenager and what happened years later when I was sent to a psychiatric hospital after developing intensifying suicidal ideations from Lexapro. … Continue reading
Standard Treatment Is Abuse: What ChristianaCare Taught Me About Mental Health “Care”
It’s been seven years since a ChristianaCare physician lied, gaslit, and coerced me into agreeing to psychiatric hospitalization. Here, I share the grievance I filed with ChristianaCare’s Patient and Family Relations department two years later. As the system continued to … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Behavioral Health, black box medication, ChristianaCare, disabled, Emergency, Emergency Room, exploitation, Lexapro, Mental Health, neglect, patient safety, pharmacogenomic testing, psych medications, psych meds, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric hospital, Rockford Center for Behavioral Health, safety fail, SSRIs
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ChristianaCare Funneled Me to the Cuckoo’s Nest
On this day in 2018, I informed ChristianaCare hospital intern Dr. Crystal Kucuk through the patient portal that Lexapro she had prescribed a few weeks earlier, “makes me very drowsy and lethargic. When I take it in the morning, I … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Behavioral Health, black box medication, ChristianaCare, delaware, Emergency Room, ER, hospital, Lexapro, Mental Health, Psych ED, Suicidal ideations
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