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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

My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. I wondered. Schizo-affective disorder?