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. Links: Corey Minor Smith Panel on Homelessness: https://www.youtube.com/live/PJo8v5orjPk?si=W1Ae9bvw0FVjEI1M Hosts: Who: Randye Kaye - was a morning Radio Personalit...

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...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! When the loved one with SMI is your peer, your partner, there are some challenges that differ from parenting someone with serious mental illness. Support, Education and new mindsets can help. Guests: Jeff Zuckerman, author of Unglued: A Bipolar Love Story - https://www.jeffzuckerman.com/ and Annie Jaeger, wellness coach and NAMI Family Support Group facilitator - https://www.anniejae...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guest: Casie Fariello from Other Parents Like ME OPLM is an online platform and virtual community, designed to create a safe space with the access and support parents need as they move from crisis to healing.Links: https://oplm.com/ Here are the social media links for Other Parents Like Me: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/otherparentslikemeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/otherparentslikemeLink...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! A “Just Us” episode - inspired by listener input Many listeners have asked us to do an episode about recovery that is “in the middle” - not miraculous, not superstar, but appreciating when “ordinary” is, in itself, a miracle. Along the way we also talk about President Trump’s Executive Order on Homelessness - On July 24, the White House issued an Executive Order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on Americ...

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 the experience for the...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests Wyatt Forte, and his mom Denise Forte Those 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 story, filled with heart-wrenching moments and major se...

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 TD More 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 ...

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 p...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests: Natasha Williams and Liz Sjaastad Natasha 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 ...

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 Professor UC Davis School of Medicine According 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 similar to Whites, these disorders are more likely...

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...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Actionable strategies for these family members and friends who give so much but whose needs and sacrifices are often unappreciated. Written by clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Sherman and her mother, DeAnne Sherman, an advocate and educator, the book provides: • Tools to cope with difficult emotions • Strategies to empower loved ones, including how to navigate the mental health system • Communication ...

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 ...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Eric J Dias is no stranger to the struggles people with addiction and severe mental illness experience. He has lived with schizoaffective disorder since he was a teenager. Eric has been a tireless advocate for people with SMI and their families. He writes about the many issues and emotions associated with SMI (Severe Mental Illness) in his novel, I Got Sober For This. In the story, he weaves the...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Returning Guest: Brian Stettin. NYC City Hall’s senior advisor on severe mental illness. In Episode 61, we interviewed Brian Stettin, senior advisor to the 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...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! GUEST: Darrell E. Herrmann WANT THE TRANSCRIPT? CLICK HERE Millions of Americans are affected by psychosis, a condition that includes schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. One man, Darrell Herrmann, is sharing his story in an effort to help others who may be diagnosed with similar conditions. Herrmann, who holds a degree in physical science and served as a military officer, is diagnosed with...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Guests: Angela and Michael Brisbin (plus 3 Moms updates and we read some Fan mail!) INTO THE LIGHT Meaningful Recovery From Psychosis, a 60 minute documentary discusses how to achieve Meaningful Recovery from Serious Mental Illness with education, medication and advocacy. A message of hope and real help, the film’s topics include: barriers to treatment, the underutilized medication, cloza...

Send a Text to the Moms - please include your contact info if you want a response. thanks! Welcome to this episode, where we explore a deeply personal and often complex topic: the choice to have relatives with severe mental illness live at home with family. Joined by listener guests, we dive into the emotional, practical, and ethical aspects of this decision. Is home the best place for healing and connection, or do the demands overwhelm family dynamics? How do caregivers balance compassion wi...

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 Mind At 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 Il...