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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

Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. Tell us about Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Our official description: Schizophrenia in the Family. How do we cope? How can we help?

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Guest Post: The Difference Between Mental Health & Mental Illness by Amelia Blackwater

Bipolar Bandit

schizophrenia. McLean Hospital. . * Eating disorders ex. anorexia or bulimia. Mood disorders ex. depression or bipolar. Personality disorders ex. borderline personality disorder. Psychotic disorders ex. Substance abuse disorders ex. drug addictions. Trauma-related disorders ex. How does Mental Health & Mental Illness Intersect?

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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 can authorize involuntary transfers of patients to hospitals. When patients with serious mental illness are not in jail or hospitalized, crisis can occur anywhere. I evaluate patients at hospital emergency rooms and inpatient medical units. . My job is to make this happen. What do you mean by “mobile”? It’s very common.

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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

Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. Tell us about Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Our official description: Schizophrenia in the Family. How do we cope? How can we help?

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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

Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. Tell us about Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. Our official description: Schizophrenia in the Family. How do we cope? How can we help?

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NASW seeks clemency for death-row inmate Johnny Johnson

Social Work Blog

Johnson’s adolescence was riddled with suicide attempts and hospitalizations, and he ultimately was diagnosed with schizophrenia as early as age 16, according to the Missouri Supreme Court. Johnson’s case is particularly concerning given his extensive documented history of mental illness, learning disabilities, abuse, and trauma.

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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