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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia. How do we cope?

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Everything You Need to Know About Mental Health Case Management

Famcare

Mental health issues have been identified in more than 50 million Americans. The most prevalent mental ailment among Americans is depression, but they also have bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

a licensed clinical psychologist and advocate for Asian American mental health in the state of New York. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Chang earned her B.A. in psychology at New York University , as well as her Ph.D.

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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

One of the first ever MQ Fellows selected was Dr Joshua Roffman from Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. At that point in my career, I was experienced enough to know that I needed to shift my focus to achieve greater public health impact – to the area of prevention, where there is tremendous unmet need in psychiatry.

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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. Breakdown is dedicated to this population. .

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Living With Schizoaffective Disorder

MQ Mental Health

Last month saw World Schizophrenia Awareness Day (24 May). Giles’ condition is related to but separate as a diagnosis from both Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. Prejudice and stigma Undeniably in recent years there has been a considerable improvement regarding attitudes towards mental health and mental illness.