Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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.

Psychiatry 98

Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. Therapy may look like something which it makes sense to pay for if it’s dressed up as something technical - as if the patient is merely consulting for the therapist’s skill or knowledge. What did he mean?

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. Schizophrenia? I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. Clearly my husband wasn’t.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52