Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! OPLM (Other Parents Like Me) interview the 3 Moms!  - Mimi Feldman, Mindy Greiling, Randye Kaye -  Together, we'll explore how to hold both grief and hope, care for yourself while supporting your child, navigate overwhelming systems, set healthy boundaries, and support your entire family through the cha...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: , Melissa Dalhoe, Social Worker, Asst Professor, University of Minnesota Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences For parents of loved ones with serious mental illness, one question often lingers beneath the surface: Will they ever find love? Will they date, build relationships, or have a partner...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Fortescue Filmmaker / Rebeccah Love About Rebeccah Love:  This Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, and community organizer debuts her debut feature film, “Fortescue,” a drama exploring the complexities of mental health, female friendships, and societal expectations.  “Fortescue” delves into the protagoni...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Vince Granada discussed his book "Everything is Fine," which tells the story of his family's experience with schizophrenia following his sibling's deteriorating mental health condition and tragic outcome.  To support the podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604296/supporters/new Vince expl...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Laura Stack, founder and CEO of Johnny's Ambassadors, a non-profit focused on youth THC prevention, discussing the tragic story of her son Johnny who died by suicide at age 19 after experiencing cannabis-induced psychosis. Scroll to the bottom of show notes for a link to join our family of suppor...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! For families and those living with Schizophrenia, words matter. Today, we look at what’s behind the diagnosis, why experts are rethinking it as a neurodevelopmental syndrome—and whether changing the name could change lives.  This podcast episode focused on rethinking and potentially renaming schizophrenia as...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! ​Creating a Mentally Healthy Nation for All: the APA Foundation   (Ep. 137) A discussion with Dr. Vedrana Hodzic, Director of Fellowships and Medical Education for the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, and Dr. Brendan Ross a psychiatry resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.  The conver...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: (returning) Jerri Niebaum Clark (Episodes 85 and 32 - Ambiguous Loss and Advocacy) In Gone Before Gone , Clark describes her son’s “death by degrees” during a young adulthood wrecked by severe mental illness. Surviving a parent’s nightmare led to Clark’s memoir of self-help—a toolkit for living with “...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! We’ve discussed FDA barriers to clozapine and side effects of all antipsychotics. Tonight we’ll zero in on Risperdal its producer, Johnson and Johnson, and the FDA.  First, we’d like to say that for those listeners who are benefitting from Risperdal, the best antipsychotic is one that’s working for you. We’l...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! KETO has been in the news - with RFK Jr. claiming it can “cure” schizophrenia. We have questions and concerns - so we brought in an expert . Guest: Dr. Matt Bernstein is a highly respected clinical psychiatrist and a leading voice in metabolic psychiatry, with 25 years of experience helping individuals achie...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest:Deb Bushong, MS, LPC-S  -  a  licensed therapist for over 20 years. "Conversations Therapy is focused on the therapeutic work that helps develop youth and young adults who are in the early parts of their journey of living with Psychosis. I offer supports of various kinds for the clients but also s...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Dr. Theresa Miskimen Rivera, APA president 2025-2026 In this episode, we’re joined by the current president of the American Psychiatric Association for a timely conversation on what’s broken—and what’s possible—in mental healthcare. We explore the promise of integrated behavioral healthcare, why treat...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! What happens when mental illness collides with broken systems—and no one is prepared to respond? In Collateral Damage, criminologist and former law enforcement officer Jesse Treviño exposes the catastrophic cost of ignoring mental illness in America’s public systems. Drawing on his own journey through trauma...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! The "ALL IN FAMILY" website says:  “When one member of the family is struggling with mental health challenges and/or addiction (dual diagnosis), it impacts every member of the family. At All IN Family, we are here to support you.” What does that mean? Charlotte Armstrong and Kirsten Drybrough are t...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Weight gain is one of the most common—and distressing—side effects of antipsychotic medications. For many people, it affects self-esteem, physical health, and even the willingness to stay on treatment. In this episode of Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches , we talk about why these medications cause we...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Two days after the tragic murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, allegedly at the hands of their middle son, Nick, we three moms comment on the system, the families who try everything to help someone they love, the fears many of us live with. We also vent about system failures, and the unforgivable response from...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Today on Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches, we’re joined by Dr. Steve Olson—psychiatrist, longtime advocate for clozapine, and a clinician experienced in using Electroconvulsive Therapy when it can truly help. ECT is often misunderstood, especially in the context of schizophrenia, so today we’re digging...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Moms kick off Season Six, with a sneak peek back at the past few months, and a look ahead. Coming up: ECT, new research, microdosing? What would you like us to cover? Contact us on our facebook page, or via any of our websites.  https://www.randyekaye.com/schizophrenia-three-moms-in-the-trenches or write ran...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Lives Reimagined: Changing the Course of Psychotic Illness   (Ep. 125) Guests: authors of the new book (same name) -  Katharine Dougherty PhD, and Lisa Mann, PhD , and Dr. Rocco Marotta-a psychiatrist known for his successful treatment of "hopeless" cases-and practiced with remarkable success by th...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! When the loved one with SMI is your peer, your partner, there are some challenges that differ from parenting someone with serious mental illness. Support, Education and new mindsets  can help. Guests: Jeff Zuckerman, author of Unglued: A Bipolar Love Story - https://www.jeffzuckerman.com/  and Annie Jaeger,...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Casie Fariello from Other Parents Like ME OPLM is an online platform and virtual community, designed to create a safe space with the access and support parents need as they move from crisis to healing. Links: https://oplm.com/ Here are the social media links for Other Parents Like Me: Facebook: https:...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! A “Just Us” episode - inspired by listener input Many listeners have asked us to do an episode about recovery that is “in the middle” - not miraculous, not superstar, but appreciating when “ordinary” is, in itself, a miracle. Along the way we also talk about President Trump’s Executive Order on Homelessness...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests: Stephanie Greer (DoroMind), Xavier Amador(LEAP) Ever wish you had a communication coach in your back pocket to guide you through a conversation with your LO (loved One) with SMI (Serious Mental Illness)? DoroMind and the LEAP Institute are working on it - want to try it out? “At Doro Mind and the LEA...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests Wyatt Forte, and his mom Denise Forte Those Not So Little Voices offers a unique narrative as it is authored over the course of three and a half years --- from the age of fourteen to almost eighteen --- by a teenager struggling to make sense of psychotic symptoms that he experienced since he was six y...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests: Rakesh Jain, MD, and Sherland Peterson, who has experience living with TD More than 14 million Americans have a serious mental illness, such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder or schizophrenia – conditions that can be treated with antipsychotic medicines. Use of these medicines has increa...