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

Bipolar Bandit

Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. The most common reason that approximately half of people with schizophrenia are unable to initiate treatment independently or adhere to treatment is anosognosia. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. the art therapist asked. I wondered.