My son needed care, the system waited for a crime
By Anonymous in Texas My son is a gentle and kind soul. When he is stable on his medication, he is my friend, and he always looks out for his […]
27 June 2025Schizophrenia
Patient-centered care that fails the patient
By Anonymous in Washington state Author’s note: names and identifying details have been changed. My wife – the person I pledged to stick with through sickness and health, and always […]
17 June 2025
A Journey of Recovery
By Anonymous I am sharing my journey as a story of recovery and the possibility of living with mental illness and thriving. The support that I found, or lacked at […]
10 March 2025
The system wants us to fail
By D. Woodin After sixteen hard years, my beautiful son has mostly recovered from schizophrenia. He still hears voices, but he knows they aren’t real. He takes his medications every […]
06 December 2024
I thought it would be different – California CARE (Community Assistance Recovery Empowerment) act experience
By: Anita FisherAnita Fisher is the mother of an adult son living with SMI, advocate, and a mental health family educator. At 18, my oldest son joined the Army and […]
29 August 2024
Personally Speaking – The power of the pen: Writing and recovery
By Steven Pryce Writing is therapy to me, a way to figure out my life. After many years spent reaching this conclusion, I now submit my published articles and poems […]
11 February 2022
Personally Speaking: A mother’s story of surviving schizophrenia
By Deborah Geesling My husband Matthew and I have four adult sons. Our third son has battled schizoaffective disorder for the past 12 years. He has all of the symptoms of schizophrenia […]
19 January 2022
Personally Speaking: Everyone deserves to recover
By Eric Dias “You don’t look schizophrenic.” People say that sometimes when I open up about having schizoaffective disorder. I don’t know what someone with schizophrenia is supposed to look like, but […]
10 January 2022
Best Practices for Family Caregivers of People with Schizophrenia
By Kathy Day For the past eleven years, my close family member has had a very misunderstood illness: schizophrenia. In the early days of my family member’s illness, I chose […]
08 November 2021
Personally Speaking: From torture to treatment
By Kathy Day I am the caregiver for my adult family member. He had his first psychotic episode more than eleven years ago. When he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, I knew […]
21 October 2021
Personally Speaking: I Didn’t Understand Mental Illness Until it Gripped my Son
By Moryt Milo My son reached a milestone in his life on May 27, 2021. He graduated from college. He had hoped to achieve this goal in 2014, but his […]
08 July 2021
Personally Speaking: Ruby’s story
By Lisa Dailey My grandmother Daphne Thompson died on New Year’s Day of 2001, less than a year after my younger sister was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at the age […]
21 October 2020
Personally Speaking: Remembering GG Burns
By Lisa Dailey The advocacy community lost a treasured champion for people with severe mental illness last week and our hearts are broken. Gina Burns (GG) passed away on November […]
11 November 2019