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How to use the word psychiatric in a Sentence?

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There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

Robert Whitaker

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11 months ago

Generally, the reason that someone presents to a hospital for a psychiatric condition like depression is because either they are acutely suicidal or they have been deemed unable to take care of themselves. And when I say unable to take care of themselves, I mean, their basic needs – food, hydration, hygiene – are all things that they’re required to do on a daily basis, and they are unable to do this due to the severity of their depression.

Daniel Bober

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lewy body is neurological; it's a circuitry problem. So the chemical and structural changes happening in Robin's brain were responsible for the psychiatric symptoms that he was experiencing.

Schneider Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The New York State Police were called and they went to the subjects' residence in Conklin and interviewed him and took him to Binghamton General Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, so there were no direct threats made to any student or teacher.

Broome County DA Michael Korchak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know I had agreed to help them escape and run away with them, but I panicked and couldn't follow through with the rest of the plan. I really do love my husband and he's the reason I didn't meet Inmate Richard Matt and Inmate Sweat, human behavior is complex, and the motivations behind behavior can be from many reasons. And so for some, depending on what motivated the behavior or psychiatric conditions they have, it absolutely could be when they're out of that context, or something else happens in their life, that they realize the error of their ways.

Joyce Mitchell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After two decades without trial in U.S. custody, Mohammed will now receive the psychiatric care he has long needed in Saudi Arabia, with the support of his family, keeping him at Guantanamo, where he was tortured, and then repeatedly attempted suicide, would have been a likely death sentence.

Ramzi Kassem

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The longer I've done this work, and the longer that I've worked with older adults in particular, the more I think of psychiatric illness as not a brain disorder, but as a whole-body disorder.

Brent Forester

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They never finished the job, they never got the last 70. They never got them either in psychiatric care or the meds, the rehab, the housing, whatever it is they still need, they just gave up and declared victory, and it wasn’t over.

Mark Ryavec

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We want to get this into emergency departments and psychiatric wards where we can treat people who are in a psychiatric emergency.

Nolan Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no way this court can set a bond at this time, i am therefore denying bond at this time and will require Alex Murdaugh to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to be submitted to the court for further consideration at a later date.

Judge Clifton Newman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Where are they doing outreach ? Who have they brought to a psychiatric facility ? Who have they brought to renew the prescriptions these men and women desperately need ?

Curtis Sliwa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Anecdotally, our own pediatric ER and inpatient psychiatric units are seeing similar increases, this may reflect lack of access to routine outpatient care, which often plays a preventative role for mental health crises. However, it is very likely also the result of the dramatic shift in teen lives that come from school virtualization, canceled social and extracurricular events, and the same pandemic fatigue that impacts all of us.

Paul Nestadt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was a call for a psychiatric person, but as the call taker was listening to the caller, if certain things are said, or certain things are heard, then it prompts a different response... It prompted a police response, and it prompted a response from fire and medics who were standing by.

Police Chief Charles Kimble

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Since the study is based on electronic medical records and diagnoses noted in these records, I think the rates in the study reflect multiple factors, including the increasing awareness of clinicians about ADHD in adulthood and the increasing awareness of patients about ADHD in adulthood, a trend we have seen in other research studies is that there is an increase in people seeking psychiatric care generally, which may also reflect a positive trend in reduced stigma to talking [ about ] psychiatric symptoms and seeking appropriate help for them.

Hanna Stevens

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have interviewed all but one or two of (the victims) and I havent found any evidence of psychiatric disorder, this is a very strong group, very resilient and there is no evidence of mass hysteria. Part of the diagnostic of mass hysteria is that there is no underlying other medical causes that can be found. And we (found) underlying medical evidence.

Cindy Calkin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There was a cycle that repeated itself. She'd be fine. She'd be on her meds. Then something would happen, and she would go off her meds, she would maybe leave or disappear. There were times she may have ended up in jail. But usually, they would do a psychiatric evaluation and take her to the state hospital.

Michelle Dotson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Contrary to their statements for example, he did not have medical and psychiatric care throughout.

Daniela Tejada

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't trust the UAE judicial system. The way the case has been handled has been very concerning and against all international standards in spite of what The UAE insist on, contrary to their statements for example, he did not have medical and psychiatric care throughout.

Daniela Tejada

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I struggled with self-harm to the point of two suicide attempts, which landed me in a psychiatric hospital for a short period of time. This was, however, a turning point in my life when I started seeking professional help to deal with my trauma and mental stress.

Evan Rachel Wood

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What Adam did over the last year and a half is he asked a lot of medically difficult questions related to medical assistance in dying and people who have severe psychological and psychiatric illness.

Shanaaz Gokool

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

These are psychiatric illnesses that affect one's emotional as well as physical states. That means we have to worry about two things at the same time.

Evelyn Attia

Found on CNN
7 years ago

For this test to become mainstream it would A.) save lives and B.) save the VA probably billions in dollars in overmedication costs, and yet they’re not doing it and it’s like leaving your brothers out to dry, the overwhelming consensus of the pharmacogenomic community is that most of these tests currently lack evidence of clinical effectiveness. That means they have not shown to have better outcomes over the usual methods of drug prescription, with some exceptions. Many commercial tests target psychiatric disease therapy and pain management. One recent VA review documented that these tests do not yet have evidence for utility, especially in the veteran population.

Carl Higbie

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

These tools were developed to perform a speedy lobotomy, you could do a lobotomy in just a few minutes, so you could mass lobotomize entire populations of psychiatric patients.Worlds 10 weirdest medical museums.

Samuel West

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Rather, autism is often a co-occurring medical and psychiatric condition that is likely to play a role in this premature mortality finding, other studies have shown us, including a recent study from Sweden, that, in fact, for example, premature mortality due to suicide is higher among individuals with autism.

Guohua Li

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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