Advocacy, Medicaid and Schizophrenia

Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I had done mental health advocacy work on a national scale for years before beginning to work on Breakdown and was very inspired by advocates’ tragic stories. Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

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Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia

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MAY 2, 2023

Most are insured through Medicaid, which excludes a wide range of mental health treatments such as art therapy, music therapy, yoga therapy, and equine therapy, readily available to higher-income households. Medicaid generally limits treatment to talk therapy, which simply does not work for many experiencing foster care.

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Mental Health Medicaid Foster Care Schizophrenia

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening

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