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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.

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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear. This is a problem.