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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 increasingly realized that there is no opportunity to influence legislators to change the system in the clinical setting. I wrote Breakdown to appeal for legislative reform because it’s nearly impossible to change the system from within the trenches of clinical work. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. Schizophrenia? All I ask is that you keep our conversations here confidential, to respect other peoples’ privacy. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. Clearly my husband wasn’t. I wondered.