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

Bipolar Bandit

Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.

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Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening

Beyond Advocacy

Most are insured through Medicaid, which excludes a wide range of mental health treatments such as art therapy, music therapy, yoga therapy, and equine therapy, readily available to higher-income households. Medicaid generally limits treatment to talk therapy, which simply does not work for many experiencing foster care.