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PhD Tales from the Hospital

It's me. I'm the gunner.

So last year, I either 1) accidentally got accepted to a graduate program, or 2) my credentials were so amazing that they admitted me with an incomplete application. Frankly, I don't know which it is at this point. I was convinced they had made a mistake, but after interacting with some of my classmates, I am thinking it might actually be the latter. One of my courses this semester is a qualitative research course. I'm not new to qualitative research - one of my first major-output projects was a mixed methods study, and I was responsible for transcribing interviews. By...
March 10th, 2026 PhD

Let's talk about inpatient psych admissions!

I know - weird first post for a blog. But as you will soon find out, sometimes inspiration strikes and in an ADHD fueled fervor, I need to carpe diem before the inspiration is gone. So today, let's talk about inpatient psychiatric admissions. You might be familiar with this concept from popular TV shows. Someone has a psychotic break, or manic episode, or attempts to take their own life, and they're admitted involuntarily to an inpatient psychiatric hospital. In the TV shows, it always appears so seamless. There just so happens to be a psychologist (it's always a psychologist on...
February 14th, 2026 Tales from the Hospital
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