Clinical Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2022

And then later, in one of her first clinical psychology lessons, she learns about the 'paranoid schizophrenia' diagnosis: "Oh my God", she thinks, "that's my dad! Thus Shaw eagerly takes up Al-Khalili's suggestion that the illumination came because "nobody had labelled" his paranoid behaviour 'schizophrenia' before.)

Schizophrenia 40

Schizophrenia Psychiatric Psychology Adoption 40

Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I’ve always felt most comfortable working with the sickest of the sick, and I have a lot of sympathy and empathy for their plight because I’ve increasingly noticed that they are most neglected by treatment providers and the government. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Gary Direnfeld

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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.

Schizophrenia 147

Schizophrenia Hospitals Mental Health Private Practice 147

Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

She was being treated by a conventional therapist who diagnosed her with schizophrenia. However, the most poignant testimony was that of Tina Harris, an NFYI Youth Delegate who told her story about receiving mental health treatment during her years in foster care. Her “treatment” kept her in a state of anxiety.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Medicaid Foster Care Schizophrenia 52

The Guardian

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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.

Schizophrenia 22

Schizophrenia Mental Health Government 22

SECTIONED

JANUARY 30, 2019

Access to the specialist day centre for people with severe and enduring mental illness (such as schizophrenia and bipolar) I’d been attending since being sectioned had been withdrawn as a result of council funding cuts. I first came across social prescribing in 2015.

Mental Health 12

Mental Health Schizophrenia Disability Consultation 12