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He Died Waiting: Book Review

Learning Social Worker

This year, I embarked on a project where I went about interviewing those with various mental health conditions, such as schizophrenia, Bipolar, Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, to learn about their lived perspective. I will forever remember a young man, who had schizophrenia. I needed to break that fear. Each story was unique.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

The psychological community often attempts to combat the stigma suffered by the mentally ill by challenging the view that people suffering schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions are physically dangerous. of the professionally representative 2017 BPS report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. In short, 9.3%

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Schizophrenia? Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse. Almost no interviews, despite the pile of applications. I wondered. I guessed at her diagnosis as well. Schizo-affective disorder?