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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. Jon, who is suspicious of the FBI is at a homeless shelter.

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Governments and advocacy groups have introduced initiatives to combat mental illness stigma, and researchers have worked to identify ways to measure and improve attitudes about mental illness. Would increasing empathy toward people with depression also increase empathy toward people with anxiety? Pescosolido, 2013). 2005.04.004.