Tag Archives: Universal Health Services

How SEIU F***** Over Trauma Survivors

Several years ago, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) put up a website saying that they were looking for stories from people who had been gaslit, threatened, and otherwise abused by Universal Health Services (UHS), America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain. … Continue reading

Posted in Abuse | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

My Manufactured Mental Health Crisis

On June 12, 2018, seven years ago today, I sat in the office of ChristianaCare psychologist Dr. Alan L. Schwartz and told him I had been triggered by unexpected contact with my mother. I told him I had cut myself … Continue reading

Posted in Mental Health, Psychiatry | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Profiteers of Human Misery: the Corporate Greed Behind Unchecked Psychiatric Abuse

In 2016, BuzzFeed published an investigative report that exposed widespread abuse within the psychiatric industry, specifically targeting Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest operators of behavioral health facilities in the U.S. The report uncovered disturbing practices, particularly the … Continue reading

Posted in Mental Health | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

America’s standard treatment for childhood trauma: more abuse and neglect

If you had “good enough” parents you were blessed with a fairly regulated nervous system, integrated brain, and secure attachment style. These contribute greatly to a sense of well-being from which health arises and a good life can unfold. If  … Continue reading

Posted in PTSD | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment