Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! This is Part 2 - Matthew’s Story. Here is his bio: “Hi, I'm Matthew Dickson! I'm a Canadian who helps people in developing countries get access to basic mental health care. I've suffered from mental health problems myself (schizophrenia). I bicycled across Canada when I was 20 in the middle of...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Ever wonder what psychosis feels like. From someone who has experienced it and now has the insight so many of our loved ones do not have? We’re lucky to have permission instead to repost this recording from The Schizophrenia Society of York University in Canada.  SSY  is the first and only schizophrenia awar...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! In this episode, listeners tell us what's on their minds and we answer as best we can.  We talk about anosognosia, incarceration, psychotic delusions, what we would have done differently if we'd known then what we know now, and lots more. We open with a poem by a listener who is diagnosed with SZ:...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! A new book, Awakenings, has just been released. It describes the journeys of 28 remarkable people who are now thriving despite being diagnosed with SZ. The authors and contributors hope to show that with newer treatments, and also social support and therapy, recovery is possible. Guests:  Bethany Yeiser, Pre...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest:  Annie Slease, Co-Founder of the Mental Health Literacy Collaborative Do you have a loved one with Serious Mental Illness? Do you wonder why it took so long for someone to recognize the symptoms? Mental Health Literacy would have helped prevent the crises we have dealt with. The mission of the MHLC is...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest:  Lauren Yasuda Rainey , DDS We ask about getting people with schizophrenia to care for their teeth, if/how medications affect teeth, the effect of Medicaid only paying for annual cleanings and check ups, compared to private insurance that pays for twice a year. Many of our listeners have asked for a s...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests are: Karlyn Nelson and Michelle Post Karlyn Nelson Survivor of Suicide Loss | Breast Cancer Warrior | Realtor Michelle Post, M.A., is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC 40198) with nearly 20 years of experience providing counseling and psychotherapy to clients in the greater Los Angeles are...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! We’re  delighted to welcome a return guest, Jerri Clark. Jerri first joined us on Episode 32, “Channeling Grief and Anger into Advocacy and Acceptance”, and is now working with TAC (Treatment Advocacy Center-, see Episode 71 with Kathy Day. Episode 31  with Lisa Dailey, Episode 35 with Sabah Muhammad ), ) as...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! We’re  delighted to welcome a return guest, Eric W.T. Smith. He was also interviewed  in Season 1 of 3 Moms (episodes 15 and 16, an AOT Success Story) In Eric’s words: “There are peers and supports in large numbers for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and a host of other diagnoses, but nothing much ava...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Schizophrenia, a complex and harrowing illness, presents an ongoing challenge for caregivers. In this groundbreaking book, discover the missing links that empowers you to navigate the labyrinth of decisions and actions required to provide the best care for your loved one. Nicole Drapeau Gillen is a mother wh...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness: Guest Judge Steve Leifman (Ep. 82) It is estimated that more than two million arrests in the United States each year involve people with Serious Mental Illnesses (SMI) – half of which are homeless at the time of their arrest. Jails have become places where a disp...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Youthcast Media Group (formerly Urban Health Media Project) trains high school students from under-resourced communities to report, write, and broadcast stories about health and social issues that affect their neighborhoods and cities.  The goal is to help students better understand and communicate about hea...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Tony is a man with an unquiet mind who delights in the One who delights in him. He is diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder with psychotic features. With a lot of professional and spiritual help, he has published three books — Delight in Disorder: Ministry, Madness, Mission; When Despair Meets Deligh...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Katie R. Dale is no stranger to the storms of Serious Mental Illness. Blindsided by an intense episode of bipolar disorder at 16, she has come a long way. Katie has written a memoir on her psych hospitalizations and how God helped her heal. Dale has conquered many losses including her sanity and firstborn ch...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Kevin “Earleybird” Earley - peer specialist, speaker and artist His challenges with mental health are documented in his father, Pete Earley 's 2007 best selling book, "Crazy - A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness" , which chronicles his 2002 incident where...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! A Just Us Episode Can Families Help Prevent Tragedy? “The family of the gunman who killed 18 people last week in Maine contacted police with concerns about his mental health and access to guns more than five months before the massacre, according to their local sheriff.” Listen to families!!!! TIME magazine:...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Gordon Lavigne, CEO,  Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance And Alfonso Guido Jr., JD The vision of S&PAA (The Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance is this:  to see schizophrenia and psychosis spectrum disorders universally recognized and treated as neurobiological brain illnesses. It...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Jonathan Rosen, author  The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. “Brave and nuanced…an act of treme...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Alisa Roth,author : Alisa Roth is a print and radio journalist who has reported extensively on the criminal justice system. Her first book, Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness , investigated the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons. The New Yorker called it an “ess...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Charla Collins Charla’s daughter Kylee lives with severe mental illness. After suffering a traumatic brain injury in her teens she eventually turned to drugs, and with little resources available to get her the long term mental health care she needs, she often disappears into the streets, going long pe...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! The last time we invited our listeners to share their stories, the response was incredible - so we are doing it again! Here are stories from families dealing with SMI (serious mental illness), including one gentleman who lives with the diagnosis himself. You are not alone. You’ll hear about early symptoms, i...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Kathy Day, Senior Family Resource and Advocacy Manager,Treatment advocacy center In her role as the senior family resources and advocacy manager at Treatment Advocacy Center*, Kathy Day helps families across the country find resources and strategies to work within the system of mental healthcare for t...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Dani Page §  SOAR (SSI/SSDI, Outreach, Access and Recovery) certified Retired attorney. Instructor on implicit bias in the space of disability §  Juris Doctorate §  Certified Family to Family facilitator for National Alliance on Mental Illness §  SOAR (SSI/SSDI, Outreach, Access and Recovery) certifie...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Jeffrey Lieberman,M.D., author of Malady of the Mind Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman draws on his four-decade career to illuminate the past, present, and future of schizophrenia. Of the many myths and misconceptions that obscure our understanding of schizophrenia, the most pernicious is that there is no effecti...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Thanks to the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance for choosing us to be the first to share this important event. On May 24th, 2023, The Angry Moms joined the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance and other advocacy groups for A Day of Action at the U.S. Capitol, in recognition of World Schi...