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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. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor.

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

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Mental health reflects “our emotional, psychological, & social well-being.”. schizophrenia. Wh at is Mental Health? Mental health can affect, how we think, feel, & act. You can have both good or bad mental health. . . Eating disorders ex. anorexia or bulimia. Mood disorders ex. depression or bipolar. Personality disorders ex.

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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. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor.

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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. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor.

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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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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

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A nervous breakdown, also called mental breakdown, refers to the inability to perform functions of daily life due to intense psychological distress. Symptoms of a Nervous Breakdown Various physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms are present when someone is dealing with a breakdown.

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Clinical Philosophy

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.