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

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Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. The states primarily funded these hospitals through taxes until the Medicaid program was created in 1965. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly. Psychosis involves the most anosognosia.