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 …

Guest Post: Mistreatment of My Son After A Living Nightmare of His First Psychosis by Tamara

  It’s so hard for me to wrap my mind around the events of the past few weeks and perhaps that is why I struggle to find the words to yet again tell this story. But it’s a story that needs to be told, the kind of story that opens your eyes and perhaps prepares …

Guest Post: Trish Hurtubise’s Struggle with Depression and OCD

You Are Not Alone “I am not like these people.” I thought looking around my therapy group.  “You will not see me 10 years from now still suffering from depression and OCD like these people.” It was that day in 2001 I decided to get better.  I fired my psychologist and tapered off my meds.  …