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

Bipolar Bandit

I’m in my 14 th year as a mobile emergency psychiatric social worker. 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. I can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals.

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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A disappointing report from the Senate Finance Committee

Child Welfare Monitor

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker.

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. She’s also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster, audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. When the interviewers go to Maya's home. a confused one'. There are many , many , more examples like this in the book.