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

Bipolar Bandit

Although most mobile psychiatric emergency cases have involved mentally high functioning patients, I’ve been most invigorated from helping the most impaired patients, usually suffering from psychosis. They are grossly underserved in both the mental health and legal systems. Breakdown is dedicated to this population. .

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Accessing Service the Creative Way

Gary Direnfeld

This after a several month stay in the children’s mental health centre to get his schizophrenia under control. I suggested they speak to the opposition health critic in government. I couldn’t live with that. I asked his parents to see me for a private meeting. If not, you are missing many more posts!

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Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening

Beyond Advocacy

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Fittingly, addressing the mental health needs of children and youth in the United States has become an issue of bipartisan concern. A panel of experts on alternative mental health treatment provided testimony on the effectiveness of treatments other than talk therapy.

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Woman who lay dead in flat for three years wrote she was ‘starving’ in diary

The Guardian

Inquest hears how 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, wrote of struggling to buy food A vulnerable woman who lay dead unnoticed in a social housing flat for more than three years wrote in her diary that she was starving and running out of food, an inquest has heard. Continue reading.

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Social prescribing is a lovely idea but it won’t make up for the care I’m not getting

SECTIONED

NICE guidelines and local healthcare policy specify that I need and should be provided with ongoing care for my ongoing serious health condition. However, I was recently discharged from the community mental health team altogether, to nothing. Severe mental illness really is severe.”.