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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. 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 Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

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Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. The most common reason that approximately half of people with schizophrenia are unable to initiate treatment independently or adhere to treatment is anosognosia. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.

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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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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her. Cooper's Argument As I detail Cooper's reading I'll number her key claims: Laing offers us an 'account of schizophrenia' and claims that 'schizophrenia is not 'in' the diagnosed patients.' She appears deluded.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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Schizophrenia? Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. Others fidgeted, especially one woman whose entire body seemed to shake, from a pulsing foot to fidgety hands. I wondered. The silent, staring woman was in the line, still quiet, although her arms were no longer crossed. I guessed at her diagnosis as well.

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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. In short, 9.3%