Bamako, Mali — In the courtyard of a psychiatric ward in Mali’s capital, a small group of patients acts out scenes of a village dispute to the beat of a djembe, a traditional West African drum.

He set up the traditional desert tents known as "khaimas" in the courtyard of the national ... "Western-style psychiatry".

What Is a Psych Ward? A psych ward, also called a psychiatric ward or unit, is where you go to get short-term or in-patient treatment for serious mental health issues. You’ll receive around-the ...

SEATTLE — She’d been released from the psychiatric ward with advice on the best ways to limit additional trauma and stress, so Naomi Morris, 46, walked back into her nursing job carrying a ...

For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. The psychiatric ward is a place no one wants to be. But it's a place you might need to be at some point if you live ...

Three years after becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic gold in wrestling, Helen Maroulis was told she was about to be admitted to a psychiatric ward with suicidal thoughts.

White has received psychiatric inpatient treatment twice in his life. Dan White Life in the ward was never easy. It was heartbreaking to see so many people in extreme distress every day.

Laura Guckian went to a psychiatric hospital just 10 months after her son Leo was born. “My world was falling apart, and I quite literally fell apart,” the 39-year-old tells us. She had Leo in ...

In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she didn’t have. That decision was a ...

Young women tell their stories from years spent on an adolescent psychiatric ward - a place supposed to make them better, but which they say failed them and left them traumatised. Show more Young ...