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

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry, that got published in October of 2018?  I’m in my 14th 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 Truth about Many Psychiatric Hospitals

Movies, advertisements, and often celebrities do not portray how hospitals for psychiatric patients really are. I do not want to deter people from getting help when they need it. I just want to change the perception that many people have who have never been hospitalized for a psychiatric reason. Many times, people are treated with …

My Story with Bipolar Disorder Divided Part 8: Relationship with another person with Bipolar Disorder

Note: This is not in sequential order from the other blog entries regarding my story. I started going to a bipolar support group.  This is where I met a friend named Erich.  We hit it off right away. It seemed like the others in the group were either drugged up with meds and/or very low …