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Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSupport, Not Control: A New Approach to SMI Decision-Making. (Ep. 148)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Supported Decision-Making (SDM) is an alternative to guardianship that allows individuals with disabilities to retain their legal rights and make their own life choices with help from a chosen team of trusted family members, friends, or professionals.Guests: Jonathan Martinis is the founder and principal of LightPath Advocacy. LightPath provides legal, education, and consulting services across the United States designed to ensure that people with disabilities can access the supports an...
2026-10-1559 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesLodge Magic: Living, Working, Achieving with Serious Mental Illness (Episode 147)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!This episode focuses on the Fairweather Lodge model as implemented by Tasks Unlimited in Minnesota, highlighting its success in providing long-term housing, community, and employment for people with serious mental illness. Trevor Johnson, the executive director, and Jim, a resident, explain how the model fosters independence, peer support, and stability, with residents managing their own households and medications. They discuss the program's history, funding, eligibility, and the strong sense of fa...
2026-09-3052 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWho Takes Care of the Caregiver? NAMI’s Family Helpline (Ep. 146)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Available Monday Through Friday, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM ETYou Are Not Alone. We are here to help.The NAMI Family Caregiver HelpLine is a free, confidential service providing caregiver-led support, tools and strategies, trusted guidance, and connection at every stage of the caregiving journey.Guest: Megan Rochford, an SMI mom, and executive director of the national NAMI HelpLine.
2026-09-0948 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesConnected Care: Can Technology Change the Journey Through Schizophrenia? (Ep. 145)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Technology is changing the way we think about mental health care—but what does that mean for families living with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses? Can technology actually make life easier for the people in the trenches—and how can families separate the genuinely useful tools from the hype?Nicole Gillen knows what it means to be a mom navigating the complicated world of serious mental illness. In her new b...
2026-08-2253 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFinancial Planning When Mental Illness Strikes: Why ABLE Accounts Matter (Ep. 144)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Allen Giese, author of When Mental Illness Strikes: Crisis Intervention for the Financial PlanThe episode of "Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches" features a discussion with financial planner Alan Giese, of Modera Wealth Management, about ABLE accounts and financial planning for individuals with severe mental illness. Randye, Mindy, and Miriam, share personal updates about their sons' current situations, highlighting the ch...
2026-07-2353 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesParenting Children with Serious Mental Illness - Navigating Grief, Hope, Advocacy and Joy (Ep. 142)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 challenges. Most importantly, we want you to know that you are not alone—there is connection, understanding, and a path forward.Thanks to OPLM for making this members-only content available to a...
2026-07-071h 14
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesThe Unthinkable: Schizophrenia and Family Tragedy (Ep. 140)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 podcasthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1604296/supporters/newVince explained that he wrote the book not to instill fear but to help others understand how such terrible situations can occur and potentially prevent them in the future. H...
2026-06-2452 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSaving our Youth From the Dangers of Cannabis: Johnny's Ambassadors (ep. 139)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 supporters! The discussion covered: the significant differences between today's high-potency THC products (containing 25-40% THC) and hi...
2026-05-1354 min
Women Over 70: Aging ReimaginedMindy Greiling: Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesThis episode, first released in 2021, is a reminder that Mental Health Awareness Month requires all of us to tell our stories. We checked back in with Mindy and learned that, even though she is now retired, she continues to advocate for reforms in mental health, policy, and affordable housing. “I love being retired; I can activate for anything I want.” She is married for 55 years and retired for sixteen. Her son continues to receive the help he needs."There is no way we are going to have a better mental health system if we don’t tell...
2026-05-1340 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesCreating a Mentally Healthy Nation for All: the APA Foundation (Ep. 137)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 conversation focused on: the APA Foundation's mission to create a mentally healthy nation, with particular emphasis on the...
2026-04-2948 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesGone Before Gone: When Mental Illness Steals Someone You Love (Ep. 136)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 “ambiguous loss,” a term coined by Pauline Boss, PhD, an academic, author, and long-time fa...
2026-04-2253 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesNew Challenges, New Hopes, Some Advice: Season Six Peek - (Ep. 126)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-trenchesor write randye@r...
2025-11-1234 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesLives Reimagined: Changing the Course of Psychotic Illness (Ep. 125)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 the team he led at The Lodge program at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut.Written for families struggling to navigate the wo...
2025-09-1159 min
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...
2025-07-0955 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 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...
2025-04-2354 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesCatch it Early: What Doctors and Practitioners Miss About Mental Illness (Ep. 112)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guests: Robert C. Smith, MD and Vinod Srihari, MD, Every day, millions of Americans face untreated mental health challenges—and too often, their first point of contact is a medical doctor unequipped to help. Most physicians - and many others who teach and advise youth - aren’t trained to recognize or treat mental health conditions, yet they’re the ones patients turn to first. This gap in training has devastating consequences, contributing to the menta...
2025-02-051h 05
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesMeaningful Recovery in SMI: Expanding Access to Treatment that Works (Ep.107)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guests: Robert S Laitman, MD,Mimi Liu, Doro MindAt Doro Mind. the mission is to provide compassionate, accessible, and dynamic care and support for individuals suffering from psychosis and their caregivers.Dr. Robert Laitman is a psychiatric internist dedicated to changing the treatment paradigm for psychosis. He is the author of “Meaningful Recovery from Schizophrenia & Serious Mental Illness wit...
2024-10-231h 09
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesTrauma-Informed Parenting: Help for Support and Healing (Ep. 106)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guests: Suzy DeYoung, Catherine Galda, Trauma Informed Parent When parents are Trauma Informed they are better equipped to help their children heal - and to take care of themselves. Trauma Informed Parent offers information, resources and perspective for parents and caregivers of children, teens and young adults who have experienced trauma or adverse childhood experiences.We Talk About:How did you get into this line of work? What do you hope t...
2024-10-1654 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesThe Never Ending Cycle: Crisis, Coping, Advocacy (Ep. 104)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!The Neverending Cycle: Crisis, Coping, Advocacy (Ep. 104)Guest: Rachel Streiff: Mental Health Advocate, Mentor to SMI Caregivers,NAMI F2F talks about the the emotional stages for families: Crisis, Coping, AdvocacyUnfortunately, like a game of chutes and ladders, you can cycle back at any time. Only thing is - it all becomes more familiar each time. You know where you are.
2024-10-021h 01
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAmazing Grace: Single Mother, Adult Son with Schizophrenia, Award-Winning Short Film (Ep. 103)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Amazing Grace: Single Mother, Adult Son with Schizophrenia, Award-Winning Short Film (Ep. 103)Guest: Aiden Keltner, FilmmakerBased on the true stories of many families, Amazing Grace tells the story of a single mother caring for her adult son with schizophrenia.Aiden Keltner is the filmmaker, and did some of his research in focus groups gathered by Randye and Mindy, and is a treasured friend of this...
2024-09-0653 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesBeyond Hidden Valley Road for Adult Siblings: What’s In Your Hands? Guest: Lindsay Mary Rauch (Ep. 102)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Lindsay Mary Galvin Rauch, Mental Health Advocate/Speaker“ I draw inspiration from my upbringing with ten older brothers, six of whom bravely fought schizophrenia. Sharing my story and journey can make a positive impact. Let's break the stigma together.”Many years ago, Lindsay Mary and her sister, Margaret Galvin, decided they wanted to share their family story in the hopes it would reduce or eliminate the stig...
2024-08-2859 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesCaregivers, You Are Not Alone - But Are You Liable? - with Ken Duckworth, MD (Ep.101)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Please note: if you write us “Fan mail” (thanks! )- please include some contact info (email is best) if you want a reply.Guest: Ken Duckworth, NAMI Chief Medical OfficerKen Duckworth’s journey into psychiatry started when he was a boy growing up with a dad who experienced severe bipolar disorder. His father was loving, kind and periodically quite ill, hospitalized for months at a time. Ken became a psychia...
2024-08-2154 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesKody Green, Schizophrenic Hippie - From Incarceration and Addiction to Advocacy and Inspiration -Ep. 100Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Kody Green, patient advocateKody lives with schizophrenia and is a motivational speaker/content creator with over a million followers on TikTok alone (@schizophrenichippie). He has also overcome struggles with drug addiction and incarceration, which he shares information about on his platform. To be a better advocate and speaker, Kody has been trained as a peer support specialist, recovery coach and suicide prevention specialist. Kody's podcast is c...
2024-08-0154 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesLiving With Psychosis, Part 3 -Christopher Grant’s Story (told to SZ Society of York) -Ep. 93Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!“Chris had a "tumultuous" time several years ago, dealing with the onset of schizoaffective disorder, but has overcome addiction and homelessness and established stability for himself, while also being an extremely productive artist.His artist name, as well as his social media handle, is xoradmagical.He's done one film for the National Film Board of Canada and is working on another.He's prolific on TikTok, where he...
2024-05-091h 02
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAwakenings: Stories of Recovery and Emergence from Schizophrenia (Ep. 89)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, President of CURESZ Foundation (https://curesz.org/) and co-author of the book. The CURESZ Foundation offers advocacy, information, advice, a...
2024-04-241h 32
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesPreventing Crisis: Mental Health Literacy and Why It’s Essential (Ep. 88)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 CollaborativeDo 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 to make evidence-based mental health l...
2024-04-1751 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAmbiguous Loss - Living with grief caused by SMI (guest: Jerri Clark) (Ep. 85)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 Family Resource and Advocacy Manager. She has a fellowship as TAC’s DJ Jaffe Advocate this year. Jerri is a family member whose son with SMI died from suici...
2024-02-2849 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWhat Do I Do Now?: THE Handbook for SZ Caregivers: guest, Nicole Drapeau Gillen (Ep. 83)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 who recognized that caregivers like herself often find themselves thrust into this challenging, complex and stressful situation with little clear guidance on how to help a loved...
2024-01-311h 00
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFrom Breaking into a House to Being Invited...Peer Specialist Kevin Earley (Ep. 78)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 artistHis 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 Kevin broke into a stranger's house and took a bubble bath before being apprehended by the police. His work deals with menta...
2023-11-1645 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAction, Alliance, and Hope for a Cure. Schizophrenia, A Treatable Brain Disease (Ep. 76)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 AllianceAnd Alfonso Guido Jr., JDThe 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.Its mission?:to create a movement for systemic change to improve care, support, and equity for th...
2023-10-2747 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesInsane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness (Ep.74)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 “essential exposé” and The New York Times said it “is rife with sharp, brutal de...
2023-09-201h 01
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWhat to Do If Your Loved One Goes Missing (Ep. 73)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Charla CollinsCharla’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 periods without contact. During a particular instance in 2021, Charla went out to look for her.Here, she shares the knowledge and wisdom sh...
2023-08-251h 07
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesListeners in the Spotlight, Act 2: Tell Us Your Story (Ep. 72)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, incarcerations, fear, finances, the roller coaster of diagnoses, medications, and relapses…second hits, good peri...
2023-08-0258 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesHelp and Tips for Families in Mental Illness Crisis: Treatment Advocacy Center (Ep. 71)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 centerIn 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 their loved ones who have severe mental illnesses. She supports, coaches, strategizes, and listens to people whose loved ones live with SMI. She helps families help their...
2023-07-1251 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesHelp! Navigating SSI/SSDI Applications and More (ep. 70)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) certified—for individuals with behavioral health challenges who are homeless or at risk§ Presenter and facilitator on implicit bias in the space of disability We learn:SSI/SSDI/SSA - review...
2023-06-301h 09
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSchizophrenia, Malady of the Mind: The Path to Prevention (Ep. 69)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 MindDr. 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 effective treatment or cure. Though that may have been true in the past, the current reality couldn’t be more different: to...
2023-06-1459 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches#EndtheClozapineREMS: Activists and Survivors of Psychosis Speak to Lawmakers (ep.68)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 Schizophrenia Awareness Day.In a briefing dedicated to discussing barriers to clozapine treatment, two courageous...
2023-06-1045 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAngry Moms go to Washington: guest, Sue Maida (ep. 67)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!First, updates:Dr. Jeff Lieberman book event, Malady of the Mind ( episode 68 June 13)(and can we talk about teeth?)Mindy: NAMI convention- update, , Joel Corcoran, CEO of Clubhouse International. Mimi: Angry Moms, and introduce GUEST Sue Maida!Links:https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/features/schizophrenia-fda-hindering-clozapine?fbclid=IwAR2__DmXdnmuHqOqgc-myG4szJOfMfMyZt62uxeRHXyHKkmygQakkggw2X8Te...
2023-06-071h 00
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFrom Partner to Stranger - Mental Illness and Your Spouse: guest, Patrick Dylan (ep 66)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!We interview the author of Safe, Wanted and Loved - (Patrick Dylan)Winner of seven awards, including a National Indie Excellence Award and Best Indie Book Award."Anyone out there struggling to navigate mental illness should read this thoughtful book."—Former U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, founder of the Kennedy Forum "Pat, we need to kill the dog." A chill ran dow...
2023-05-1748 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesMental Health Case Management and Care: Helping Those in Crisis (ep. 65) -guest, Kat ThompsonSend a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Social worker by heart, therapist by trade, Kat Thompson earned her MSW in 2022. She’s a mental health professional specializing in helping those in crisis. She also is a founder of Cascadia Cares ,”:building a world where it’s normal to help others.” 1. Tell us what a case manager's scope of work and responsibilities are.2. What made you want to pursue this line of work?3. What do you be...
2023-05-1048 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesPsychosis and Mental Health Recovery: A Workbook of Activities, and Hope (Ep. 64)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Psychosis is a huge part of many serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia. Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, is a clinician with a mission: to spread a message of hope and recovery to encourage young adults living with serious mental illness. She says, “Your Story Matters AND You Are More Than Your Story”Her story will inspire you as well. Recently, she completed a workbook geared...
2023-04-2751 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesMore of What Families Want Therapists to Know About Schizophrenia (Part 2 with Leah Brennan, LMFT, CADC) -Episode 63Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Leah Brennan. a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor, joined us with her own questions in Episode 55 so as to improve therapist-family communication. Her Episode had such a great response that listeners asked for more - so here it is!Leah got connected to 3 Moms In the Trenches through her clients. Over the past five years, she has had four di...
2023-04-1948 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesHope is Hard Work: Schizophrenia and Resilience- Hakeem Inspires (ep 62)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Hakeem Al-Zayyidi is an Islamic motivational and inspirational speaker. Hakeem is a graduate of Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.It took Hakeem ten years to obtain his four-year undergraduate degree in Business and Sustainability.His heroes and those who have motivated him to succeed include Malcolm X, LeBron James, Mohammed Ali, and Elyn Saks.Hakeem has been dealing with schizophrenia since his early 20s.
2023-03-2244 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesCompassionate Interventions for the Homeless: The NYC Plan (ep 61)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Brian Stettin, senior advisor to NYC Mayor Eric Adams administration on severe mental illness.Brian drafted the legislation that became Kendra's Law when he was an assistant attorney general in 1999, after a young journalist, Kendra Webdale, was shoved into an oncoming train by a young man from Queens with a long history of mental illness.The Adams administration's new push is to have more severely mentally ill people brought to h...
2023-03-0945 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesA Sister’s Love and SMI: Grieving the “Perfect Other” (ep.60) with Kyleigh LeddySend a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Kyleigh Leddy, author of “The Perfect Other: A Memoir of my Sister”“I wish my sister gets better” - that became part of our guest's yearly birthday wishes, and more often too.Our daughters have probably made that same wish - or at least they used to.In 2019, Kyleigh won the New York Times Modern Love college essay contest for an essay she wrote about grieving...
2023-02-0845 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSchizophrenic NYC: Define Normal, Defy Stigma and Homelessness (ep 59)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Michelle Hammer Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and spends her time passionately fighting stigma.Michelle was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 22 after a misdiagnosis of bipolar at age 18. At 27, Michelle decided to use her artistic talents and fearless personality to do something that could benefit the mental health community. She founded Schizophrenic.NYC - a clothing brand with the mission of reducing stigma by s...
2023-01-2648 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesListeners in the Spotlight: Tell Us Your Story! (Ep. 58)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Seven listeners share their stories of SMI (Serious Mental Illness) in a loved one - and, in one case, in themselves.This episode grew out of a facebook post. We had so many volunteers to share their powerful stories that we may do more episodes like this, if you find it valuable and moving. I know we did.Show notes:Judith Smith's Support group info: judithrsmith@difficultmothering.comLook Again p...
2023-01-1355 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWhat Families Want Therapists to Know About Schizophrenia (Ep. 55)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Leah Brennan, Leah Brennan, LMFT, CADC Leah Brennan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor. Leah got connected to 3 Moms In the Trenches through her clients. Over the past five years, she has had four different parents on her caseload who were all confronting the reality that their sons met the criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Leah...
2022-10-271h 04
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesTell Me I’m Here: SZ Memoir Becomes a Heart-Rending Play (ep. 54)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!In 2022, the memoir Tell Me I’m Here, went from page to stage at the Belvoir Theatre in Sydney, Australia - to universal acclaim - like “a bold work, tackling difficult subject matter with empathy and insight”- and we have the playwright here with us today, with her own story to tell. We are also thrilled that the theatre company used our podcast as part of their research. Please welcome...
2022-10-2244 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesA Plan of Action for COD (co-occurring disorders): The Harris Project (Episode 53)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!A Plan of Action for COD (co-occurring disorders*): The Harris Project*mental health challenges plus and substance misuse or addictionWhat comes first: substance use or mental health challenges? It can happen either way.Adolescence is a time of change and challenge. It is also during this time that most mental health disorders arise. In fact, 22% of teens 13-18 have a diagnosable mental health and/or a...
2022-09-2954 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesNavigating Psychosis & Behavioral Health Systems: Against All Odds: Dr. Gary Tsai (ep. 52)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!As a psychiatrist and system administrator who grew up with a mother with schizophrenia, Dr. Gary Tsai offers an insider’s perspective on the process of seeking care for serious mental illnesses, informed by both firsthand personal and expert professional experiences.Dr. Tsai is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author, physician who is board certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine, and the director of the largest substance use system in the nation....
2022-09-1542 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesNever Truly Out of the Woods - “Long-Haul” Schizophrenia and the Family (Ep. 51)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Living with schizophrenia or other SMI (Serious Mental Illness) in yourself or in your family is like a game of “chutes and ladders” - you’re never really out of the woods, but there are wins (progress, good moments and memories) and hopes along the way. Mimi, Mindy and Randye catch up on the latest family journeys with SZ - life-threatening crises, changes in treatment, finding hope and joy, and resilience - in this opening...
2022-09-0846 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesHelp! I Don’t Understand SSI/SSDI - Ep 50, guest: Dani Page, JDSend a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!SZ 3 moms Ep 50: Help! I Don’t Understand SSI/SSDIGuest: 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) certified—f...
2022-07-211h 00
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesPete Earley: A Father’s (and son’s) Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness (Ep. 49)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Pete Earley is a storyteller whose books include four New York Times bestsellers, likeThe Hot House and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness.His years as an investigative journalist include six years at The Washington Post. Pete is a tireless advocate for mental health system reform.Many listeners ask...
2022-07-1652 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches“Our Son Died with His Civil Liberties Intact” - and What We Did Next (Ep. 48)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Episode 48: “Our Son Died with His Civil Liberties Intact” - and What We Did Next One Story of Bedlam - and Activism - in America’s Mental Health CrisisGuests: Norm Ornstein and Judy HarrisYou are about to meet a couple - Norm Ornstein and Judy Harris - who tragically lost their son Matthew in 2015. Matthew had struggled with mental illness for over a decade, and , as...
2022-07-0147 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesYou Are Not Alone: On Grief, Guilt, Tough Choices…and Hope (Ep. 47)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Just the Moms, addressing Q’s and giving updatesWe talk about:Our recent advocacy (legislation and keynote speeches)SEARCH: what families need (Support, Education, Acceptance, Respect, Communication Skills, Hope)Updates …and address e-mails and facebook comments likeWill I ever feel "normal" again? The grief and anger still take my breath away some days. I'm sorry to vent...
2022-06-2444 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAn Emotional Response to the Hearing Voices Network: Anti-Medication ? (ep 46)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest:Freddie de BoerOn May 17th, the NY Times Magazine published an article by Daniel Bergner, based on his book The Mind and the Moon. The article reports on psychosis , from the point of view of Caroline, who is beset by the hallucinations of psychosis. Daniel Bergner explores how to seek a deeper engagement with ourselves and one another—and how to f...
2022-05-3041 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFamily Support Services - Where Can We Find Help? (Ep. 43)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!We all agree (and letters and comments confirm) - the family feels lost. Doesn’t know what to do, where to turn, to get help with:Finding options and servicesSorting through themPlace to vent and share/run through ideasOur guest today provides that kind of help, and she is here today to share some tips with us.
2022-04-2948 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesGrowing Up Too Fast: When Your Parent has Serious Mental Illness (Ep. 42)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guests: Karen Comba, author of The Snipers We Couldn't See: A Memoir of Growing Up with My Mother's SchizophreniaAnd Christina Lord, mental health advocate (Canada) daughter of a dad with SZ, First, your stories.How has the experience impacted you (Karen writes about life “with footprints on her back”)How did writing or sharing about it help? Or did it?
2022-04-1559 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesHomelessness and SMI: Transforming the American mental health system through radical hospitality.(Ep. 41)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Problem: Getting our Homeless off the Streets and into HousingMany of our seriously mentally ill wind up in jail, dead, or homeless.It doesn’t have to be that way - and solutions in places like Trieste, Italy can show us the way, Heart Forward.Meet Kerry Morrison, and discover a cost-effective, empathetic solution that lives up to “The human right to a sense of purpo...
2022-03-2451 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAsk the Moms: We Answer Listener Questions in Our First Live Episode! (Ep.40)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!We invited listeners to come on board for this episode, for some Q and A, and wow did they come through!This is one of our most powerful shows ever, thanks to you. Yes, if you want, we will do this again.We discuss:how we wrote our booksHow to help the Treatment team include us - even if they are reluctant (HIPAA, confidentiality, etc.)Planning for when we are no...
2022-03-181h 05
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesThe Value of Community: Peer Mental Health and Painted Brain (Ep. 39)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!If you have a mental illness, how does isolation add to the challenges you face?Guest (and self-described schizophrenic) David "Eli" Israelian talks about his story, and two incredible projects:Painted Brain | Putting Brains To Work! We're building community-based solutions to mental health challenges and the impact of social injustice through arts, advocacy, and enterprise. - Painted Brain creates lasting community-based solutions to mental health challenges and the impact of social i...
2022-03-1054 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAdvocating for the Best Available SMI Care: guest, Rachel Streiff (Ep. 37)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Rachel Streiff: Mental Health Advocate, Mentor to SMI Caregivers, Data analyst for Team Daniel Running for Recovery from mental illness, (Dr. Robert Laitman’s organization), chemical and biomedical engineer with a legacy six sigma black belt certification - Mother of our guest in episode 22, who is currently a full-time college student.If you enjoyed her son's story in Episode 22, hear his Mom's side of the advocacy and how she insisted on the best avai...
2022-02-1855 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesDifficult: Mothering Challenging Adult Children Through Conflict and Change (Ep. 36)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!“Does anybody have a map?...” - a lyric from the show Dear Evan Hansen, sung by the parents of the show’s adolescent children.If you are a “Mom in the Trenches” of serious mental illness in your child, you also know the feeling - all too well .Judith R. Smith, (mother, psychotherapist, professor, researcher on women’s issues as they age) noticed that the topic of...
2022-02-1054 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFocus on BIPOC Mental Health Challenges and Outreach - guest, Sabah Muhammad (Ep. 35)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Focus on BIPOC Mental Health Challenges and Outreach - guest, Sabah Muhammad, DJ Jaffe AdvocateSabah has a brother with mental illness, and is an advocate for him, and more: she is legislative and policy counsel with Treatment Advocacy Center (see episode 31).SMI is challenging enough, but what does racial inequality add to the picture? Sabah references one of her favorite quotes: "Racism isn't the shark in the water, it is the wa...
2022-01-2555 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesThe Deep Dark Road: Living With Schizophrenia and Coming Back. Ryan’s Story. (Ep. 34)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! An Acid Trip in college led to “never feeling the same again” - to actions to feed drug habits, to inner thoughts of suicide and harm, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, treatment - and now, a Master's Degree and full-time work.The 3 Moms ask Ryan the questions our sons aren’t ready to answer.What does psychosis feel like?What is the effect of weed on your symptoms?Do you...
2022-01-2154 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFellowship Place, One Supportive Community Fostering Mental Health - Ep.33Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!“Housing…employment…daytime structure. There needs to be something for people in between all those medical appointments in order to really have a positive meaningful life.” - Guest Mary Guerrera, Exec. director After hospitalization - what? Many people with mental health issues, and their families, struggle to find answers to that question.What would true support and community look like? What is possible?Fellowship Place in New Haven...
2022-01-1345 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesChanneling Grief and Anger into Advocacy and Acceptance - guest Jerri Clark (Ep. 32)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!What if: the mental health system would pay more attention, take more steps to help , before tragedy, violence, or crime finally calls attention to symptoms of SMI (serious mental illness)?What if Darrell Brooks (charged with murder after plowing his mother’s car into a parade in Wisconsin) had been helped, and treated, instead of ignored or imprisoned? His mother, Dawn Woods, wrote a letter to the media. She, too, is a “mom in the...
2021-12-1750 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesPurpose and Community on Recovery Road - Clubhouse Int’l - Episode 30Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest Joel Corcoran, Executive Director of Clubhouse InternationalWE are registered on Podchaser: 1JYHu8EZSiGN2dxr1Oz7Clubhouse International:A Clubhouse is an evidence-based-practice founded on the belief that even the most disabled can sufficiently recover and improve their lives with the help of a supportive community. The Clubhouse model provides pathways to meaningful social inclusion, work and wellbeing. First developed in New York in 1948 by a small...
2021-11-1854 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesNot Like the Others: Katie's Story of Mental Illness and Recovery (Ep. 28)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Katie Sanford , blogger, "Not Like the Others"“You raise expectations, and raised expectations are what people need.” - MindyFrom Katie's blog:"Throughout the course of my life with schizoaffective disorder, I have always been considered high functioning. But high functioning doesn’t mean my life is normal or even symptom-free. "Katie Sanford is a blogger and advocate living with schizoaffective disord...
2021-10-2945 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesI Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! How to Help Someone Accept Treatment (Ep. 27)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!If you care for someone with a diagnosed serious mental illness (SMI) , you know that it isn’t easy to help them begin, or continue, treatment.You hear “I’m not sick! I don’t need help!”That phrase inspired our guest to find a way, write a book, and create a movement.Dr. Xavier Amador is a world-renowned clinical psychologist & forensic expert, and a Family caregiver...
2021-10-2243 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesSchizophrenia and the Family: Is There Hope Beyond Hidden Valley Road? (Ep. 25)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!To end our first season with episode 25, we present the interview that started it all: Mimi and Randye interview Bob Kolker, and are joined by fellow activist/mom Laura Pogliano.A conversation about #Schizophrenia and the Family: Is There Hope Beyond #HiddenValleyRoad? with Robert Kolker, Miriam Feldman, Randye Kaye, and Laura Pogliano. Kolker is a journalist and nonfiction author whose first book Lost Girls was a New York Times best-seller and was recently adapted for a N...
2021-09-2052 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesEpisode 23- You Are not Alone - Stories of Family emotional Journey with SZSend a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Are you dealing with SZ in a loved one? Feeling confused? Scared? Angry? Overwhelmed?You are not alone. We've been there...and how.There are stages in the emotional journeys of families dealing with Schizophrenia in a loved one. Mimi, Mindy and Randye are now often at the "advocacy/Acceptance" stage - but not always.In excerpts from our books, and quotes from listeners, we talk about the events and feelings in the earlier...
2021-08-1248 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFrom Schizophrenia / Addiction, through Treatment, to Success: Carson's Story (Ep. 22)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Episode 22- From Schizophrenia and Pot Addiction, through Treatment, to Success: Carson's StoryToday we talk with Carson S. , who has an inspiring story to tell, from schizophrenia/addiction to sobriety/recovery success. We talk about his life….what it used to be like, what his challenges have been (addiction/intrusive thoughts/SMI) , and how he is doing now…..and what advice he might give to others who need to have hope.
2021-08-0547 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesTools of Hope: Family Empowerment and Care Coordination in Mental Illness (Ep. 21)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Today is about solutions -( we’ve done a lot of episodes about problems) - and at the end we’ll share some free resources to help you if someone in your family has schizophrenia - Guest: Michael Mackniak, JDFree resources:https://myfenow.com/3moms/ https://myfenow.com/tools-of-hope/Other Links:
2021-07-1455 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesRethinking Clozapine: Should it be the First Resort to Treat Schizophrenia? - with Dr. Robert Laitman (Ep. 18)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!In this episode, we talk meds with an MD. Specifically: Clozapine. Many of us are told that it’s the “last resort” medication, “when nothing else works”. Is that really true?Guest : Robert S Laitman, MD, is an internal medicine physician at Bronx Westchester Medical Group in New York. Over the last 10 years, he has developed a practice taking care of people with psychotic disorders after his son, Daniel, received a diagnosis of schizoph...
2021-06-0359 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWhat Schizophrenia Steals - Emotions Deeper in the Trenches (Ep. 17)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!A “Just Us 3 Moms, Digging Deeper” Episode.Tonight we just talk about our boys - and what we’ve lost, what they have lost.Feeling even more alone than ever? Not only is your family member diagnosed with schizophrenia, but you have your own reactions and emotions to deal with - what is “normal”? What do other families feel? What are the stages of these reactions? What can be done?
2021-05-1352 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesAfterWords - Stopping the Revolving Door - Assisted Outpatient Treatment (Ep. 16)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Sometimes the best parts of the conversation happen after we press "stop" - so today we captured what happened after that. Guest is Eric Smith, a nationally recognized mental health advocate, public speaker, and consultant on matters of severe mental illness (SMI). He is also a graduate of assisted outpatient treatment (AOT). AfterWords:Why does Eric advocate for AOT?What about AOT for...
2021-05-0411 minWomen Over 70: Aging ReimaginedMindy Greiling:Advocacy for Mental HealthMindy Greiling, age 73, served in Minnesota’s House of Representatives for 20 years (1993-2013), where she campaigned to bring more women into political office. Mindy’s talents in lawmaking and storytelling are evident in her recent book, Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son. When her 21 year-old son was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder in 1999, Mindy went public, without secrecy or shame. Speaking out for the rights of people with mental illness and their families, Mindy initiated innovative policy and funding for mental health in Minnesota and served on many national and state boards and council...
2021-04-2840 minWomen Over 70: Aging ReimaginedMindy Greiling:Advocacy for Mental HealthMindy Greiling, age 73, served in Minnesota’s House of Representatives for 20 years (1993-2013), where she campaigned to bring more women into political office. Mindy’s talents in lawmaking and storytelling are evident in her recent book, Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son. When her 21 year-old son was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder in 1999, Mindy went public, without secrecy or shame. Speaking out for the rights of people with mental illness and their families, Mindy initiated innovative policy and funding for mental health in Minnesota and served on many national and state boards and council...
2021-04-2840 minWomen Over 70: Aging ReimaginedMindy Greiling:Advocacy for Mental HealthMindy Greiling, age 73, served in Minnesota’s House of Representatives for 20 years (1993-2013), where she campaigned to bring more women into political office. Mindy’s talents in lawmaking and storytelling are evident in her recent book, Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son. When her 21 year-old son was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder in 1999, Mindy went public, without secrecy or shame. Speaking out for the rights of people with mental illness and their families, Mindy initiated innovative policy and funding for mental health in Minnesota and served on many national and state boards and council...
2021-04-2840 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesNAMI’s Family to Family Program - Mental Illness Education, Support, Strategies and More (Ep. 14)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Have you ever wished there were a way to learn about your loved one’s mental illness, so that you can stop grasping at straws, making things worse, being always in the dark about what to do and how to cope?This DOES exist - and it’s free. It’s called Family-to-Family, offered by NAMI (The National Alliance on Mental Illness) - and they have tons of other resources as well.
2021-04-1539 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesLet’s Talk about the Law - Mental Illness and Legal Matters, Part Two (Ep. 13)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Judge Lisa Wexler, ConnecticutMany of our listeners have shared frustrations with the law, confusion about the process, and want to know more. Today we get the story from the other side of the bench. This is Part Two of our conversation with Judge Lisa Wexler (https://www.lisawexler.com/ ). Judge Lisa has been a probate judge in Connecticut since 2013. She is a graduate of J...
2021-04-0730 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesLet’s Talk about the Law - Mental Illness and Legal Matters, Part One (Ep. 12)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Guest: Judge Lisa Wexler, ConnecticutIn past episodes we’ve had the chance to talk with social workers, psychiatrists and other practitioners about the “flaws” in the system to get help for people with schizophrenia - get them off the streets, into treatment, and stable. Many of our listeners have shared frustrations with the law, confusion about the process, and want to know more. Today we get the story from the other side of...
2021-04-0733 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesRebuilding Life When you Have Schizophrenia: Rebecca’s Story, Part 2Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Rebecca’s Story, Part 2What do the intrusive thoughts (aka to some, “voices”) say to you?Rebuilding your life, and giving to others - how does that help?Psychiatrists - the good, the bad, the changes, and why it mattersRelationships - How were they affected? Whether to disclose your illness? When? How?The ups and downs of recovery. how do you know when you are sta...
2021-03-1136 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesRebuilding Life When you Have Schizophrenia: Rebecca’s StorySend a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Rebecca Lyn PhillipsRebecca Lyn Phillips, 43, is a published author, speaker, and mental health advocate. She regularly shares her story of trial and recovery to help others who need hope. She wants to shine a light on a dark subject and show that life can happen again.Episode 9: Rebecca Lyn Phillips, Part One3 Mom Updates: When SMI peer community can be...
2021-03-1132 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesConservatorship for Schizophrenia: Who Needs it? Why? and How? (Ep. 6)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!In the news: Britney Spears and conservatorshipBrief Sons’ Recovery updates, “good and bad” - and The Miracle of OrdinaryWhat is Conservatorship? - varies from state to stateHow we did - or didn’t - get to be our sons’ conservator/guardianMindy and Mimi - Managing without conservatorshipRandye and Ben’s 's Journey to Conservators...
2021-02-1634 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesFamily Stories and Top Five Grassroots Changes in Serious Mental Illness: Dede Ranahan, part 2 (Ep. 5)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Top Five changes we Need - and More#1 Reclassify SMI (Serious Mental Illness) as a physical/medical, not behavioral condition - we need to fund more research : and Why is there no cure for SZ?#2 - HIPAA (discussed in more detail in Episode 4)#3 - Repeal the IMD Exclusion (would make more hospital beds available for SMI)#4 - Full Continuum of Care...
2021-02-0833 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches64+ Family Stories and Grassroots Change: Dede Ranahan and 64 More Moms, Part 1 (Ep. 4)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Interview with Dede Ranahan, author and editor (64 co-authors) of “Tomorrow Was Yesterday...Mothers Across the Nation Tell It Like It Is“ living with SMI (Serious Mental Illness) in our loved ones. Not just family stories, but about action. Advocacy. What we want to see happen to help families like ours.Author Talk: How we got our books from idea to publicationHow Dede found and collected 64+ stories of Serious Mental Illness in the...
2021-02-0440 min
Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesLet's talk about the voices - What the heck is schizophrenia ? (Ep. 3)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!What is schizophrenia? - definitions we use/hear - what it is notWhat do you think happens in your son’s head when symptomatic? What does it look like to you and your family? What do you observe?What changes when treatment is effective? What doesn’t change?Positive and Negative Symptoms of SchizophreniaHow can we empathize?What effect do street drugs have on treatment?Qu...
2021-01-2729 minSchizophrenia: Three Moms in the TrenchesWho we are, what we know, how to cope (Ep. 1)Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks!Why this podcast? - a place to tell the truth about SZ in the family Our stories, sons, our books (and why we wrote them)Who were our sons ….before?Where are our sons today?What has been the hardest thing about this so far?PEOPLE ARE ASKING...What we wish we’d known earlier Each close with message:Mimi - Joy is still possible Mi...
2021-01-1443 min
Stream Thousands of Audiobook Collection Instantly OnlineMindy Greiling - Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her SonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son
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2020-11-249h 33Stream Complete Audiobook Collection TodayFix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son (Authored by Mindy Greiling)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son
Author: Mindy Greiling
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Release date: November 24, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2
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Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary: In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota st...
2020-11-249h 33
Download Top Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureFix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son by Mindy GreilingPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son Author: Mindy Greiling Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to...
2020-11-2430 min
Discover Your Day With A Captivating Full Audiobook.Fix What You Can by Mindy GreilingPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/90603to listen full audiobooks.
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Author: Mindy Greiling
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In his early 20s, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state's inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an...
2020-11-249h 33
University of Minnesota Press"Not just surviving, but thriving": On recovery. (Mental Health Series, Part 3)On this podcast, Mindy Greiling, a mental health advocate and former state representative, has hosted a series of conversations around mental health care in Minnesota: the first was with Alisa Roth on the state’s criminal treatment of mental illness, and the second with Dr. George Realmuto on mental health and substance abuse. In this third and final installment in the mental health series, Mindy talks about recovery with John Trepp, who she calls a “maverick” and wishes there were more like him in the mental health system. Trepp is author of Lodge Magic: Real Life Adventures in Mental Health...
2020-11-1052 min
University of Minnesota PressOn the intersection of mental illness and substance abuse. (Mental Health Series, Part 2)Mindy Greiling was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives for twenty years. She has served on state and national boards of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and is on the University of Minnesota Psychiatry Community Advisory Council. George Realmuto is a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Both George and Mindy are parents of children with brain disease. Mindy’s son, Jim, is 42 and was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in his early twenties. George’s daughter, a mother and an award-winning creative, passed away in 2019 as a result of chem...
2020-10-0656 min
University of Minnesota PressMental health care and criminal justice reform. (Mental Health Series, Part 1)In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling’s son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state’s inadequate mental health system. Her book FIX WHAT YOU CAN is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate. Greiling is joined here today by Minnesota Public Radio’s mental health reporter Alisa Roth, author of INSANE: AMERICA’S CRIMINAL TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS. This edi...
2020-09-1541 min
Mental Health In MinnesotaMindy Greiling and son Jim Greiling; Former MN State Representative Mindy Greiling, author of “Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and A Lawmaker’s Fight For Her Son”Mindy Greiling and son Jim Greiling; Former MN State Representative Mindy Greiling, author of “Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and A Lawmaker’s Fight For Her Son” (Recorded 1/28/2020) This episode more »
2020-07-1222 min