In 2016, I was admitted to a psych ward, where I fell for another patient. We connected quickly and were honest with each other about why we were there. When he rejected me, I realized I'd just been ...

“Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays,” I croon, strumming a borrowed guitar. I’m attempting to be quiet enough to not overshadow others’ conversations while still setting a merry vibe ...

I’m sitting cross-legged, shoulders slumped, on my hospital bed wearing those god-awful-hospital-sanctioned cotton pants. I’m already depressed; this doesn’t help. At least they let me wear my own ...

“Are you a cutter?” the medical aide asked me, gearing to strap a blood pressure monitor around my upper arm to take my vitals at 11 o’clock one evening. I had entered the psychiatric unit, or as it ...

The 7 Investigators were the first to show you in February how patients have been alleging they were held against their will in psychiatric hospitals, or they say they were coerced into staying for ...