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

Bipolar Bandit

Administrative pressure to reduce hospital emergency lengths of stay can result in premature discharges. Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Schizophrenia? All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I applied for at least 50 jobs there, both at my administrative level and below it. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. I wondered. I guessed at her diagnosis as well. Most people nodded.