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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

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Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. 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. How do we cope? How can we help?

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

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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. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

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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. 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. 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. 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. How do we cope? How can we help?

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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. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. Schizophrenia? Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. I wondered.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

The psychological community often attempts to combat the stigma suffered by the mentally ill by challenging the view that people suffering schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions are physically dangerous. of the professionally representative 2017 BPS report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia.