psychiatric patient
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He recalls his first psychiatric patient, a young woman whose remarkable recovery through medication left a lasting impression and underscored psychiatry's power to rebuild lives affected by mental illness.
From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025
General submitted to the county’s Department of Mental Health showing the total number of hours that each psychiatric patient was restrained in a given month.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023
She played a devout, doomed young bride on Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a psychiatric patient on HBO’s “Sharp Objects,” a passionate drama kid on Netflix’s one-season-wonder “Everything Sucks!”
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2022
Rebecca Lewis, a 27-year-old Ohioan, has confronted this problem for as long as she has been a psychiatric patient.
From Salon • Oct. 3, 2021
Not that the truth concerning “poor Bonnie’s afflictions” was in the least a secret; everyone knew she had been an on-and-off psychiatric patient the last half-dozen years.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
