During the pandemic, 7 Investigator Heather Catallo started investigating these allegations. She spent hundreds of hours during the last two years talking with patients, former employees, and mental ...

Lamar Brown went through a rigorous program at a New York State psychiatric hospital aimed at stopping the “revolving door” ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

As New York tries to move people with severe mental illness off the streets and into treatment, the governor said some hospitals aren’t helping. By Joseph Goldstein Gov. Kathy Hochul threatened on ...

Editor’s note: Yu Lei is a nurse at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in China’s eastern Jiangsu province with more than 10 years of experience. Her hospital receives patients with various mental health ...

In the acute psych wards I’ve been in, there is a kind of paranoia about music – that it’s a dangerous force which could unravel the whole system, make the patients go mad(der), induce an uprising, ...