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Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSMI and AI: Communication Coach in Your Back Pocket? (Ep. 121)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 LEAP Institute, we've been weaving AI into our clinical operations to improve th...2025-07-0956 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesThose Not So Little Voices: From Adolescent Psychosis to Wellness and Empowerment (Ep. 120)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guests Wyatt Forte, and his mom Denise ForteThose 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 years old.Wyatt’s journey is an amazing st...2025-06-2559 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesTardive Dyskinesia (TD) - Managing a Difficult Side Effect (Ep. 119)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 TDMore 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 increased 22% in recent years, particularly within the last 10 years, in turn increasing the risk of a debilitating chronic movement condition called tardive dyskinesia (TD), which can cause un...2025-06-1147 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesHIPAA and More: Understanding the Laws of Mental Health (Ep. 118)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Laura M . Brancato, Esq. - Elder Law And Vulnerable Client Specialist“As an attorney and an advocate, my mission is to provide specialized legal advice and support to families with vulnerable loved ones. With a focus on mental health, special needs, elder law, substance abuse disorders and related matters, I am dedicated to helping clients navigate complex legal landscapes and achieve the best possible outcomes for their families.”TEXT re H...2025-06-111h 03
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWhat About the Kids?: When Your Parent has Schizophrenia (Ep. 117)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guests: Natasha Williams and Liz SjaastadNatasha Williams -The Parts of Him I Kept: The Gifts of My Father's Madness (Natasha’s book) is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member.2025-06-041h 02
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSchizophrenia in Minoritized Communities (Ep. 115)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Regina Graham, MD (she/her)Medical Director of Early Psychosis Programs,Health Sciences Clinical ProfessorUC Davis School of MedicineAccording to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness ( 52.9 million people in 2020). While People of Color (POC) have rates of mental health disorders...2025-04-2355 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesBoundaries..or Abandonment? And Other Questions from 3 Moms Fans (Ep. 114)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Letters…we get letters…well, actually emails, comments, and messages. In this episode we do our best to respond with perspective, information and resources.Please know that we are not doctors, cannot prescribe medication - nor do we know all the legalities and resources in each state or country (hello, international listeners!) - but, often, our guests do.Her are some of the episodes we mention for your references:108. Should our...2025-03-2646 min