Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi criticised both the private security company and police for their handling of the situation.
Numerous patients, he says, are told that inpatient ... “I worry about who is, right now, lying in a bed in a psych ward, too sick to function, left with no one to properly care for them ...
Patients who were teenagers when they were admitted to Skye House, a specialist NHS unit in Glasgow, told BBC Disclosure some nurses called them "pathetic" and "disgusting" - and even mocked their ...
Police said when they arrived at the scene, the mental patient was biting genitals of the deceased man, covered in blood.
I’ve come to realize something: a trip to the psychiatric ward doesn’t always have to be a bad experience, now does it? But the moment that put me there sure was bad, I’ll tell you that.
The good things about psych ward? I had constant access to doctors ... and it could be pretty traumatic listening to the other patients. At this point I was still talking about wanting to die.
One woman receives an unflattering haircut in the psych ward, and “from this time on ... So many of the patients in “Airless Spaces” are brutally, bruisingly lonely. One character is ...
Dooley speaks to other patients, of course – and, unlike some other documentaries, On The Psych Ward makes a point of offering closure on all stories told. What is made abundantly clear ...
A documentary by the corporation's Disclosure team featured interviews with former patients admitted between 2017 and 2024. They alleged that staff were quick to resort to forceful restraint ...
A dangerous mental patient who believed he was the “King and Queen of Ireland” was recaptured after a violent escape from an Orange County hospital earlier in the week. Christopher Morgan was ...