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Removing Cops from Behavioral Crisis Calls

In what will be among the largest and boldest urban police reform experiment in decades San Francisco is creating and preparing to deploy teams of professionals from the fire and health departments — not police — to respond to most calls for people in a psychiatric, behavioral or substance abuse crisis.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR3ImRXaRubNLIQUfqz9TVZIfPHv0uLEZGO92nYegPfgOvzjE94COJdwkwg

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 Ron Coleman’s story 

Having spent 13 years in and out of the psychiatric system, Ron’s own route to recovery has given him many insights into the difficult issues facing today’s mental health services.

https://www.workingtorecovery.co.uk/ron-colmans-story

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Rabbits As Emotional Support Animals

Welcome to our channel! Lennon is a free roam, 3-yr-old Havana-mix bunny.  My momma (Lorelei) likes to make videos to help others learn about rabbit care.  L.A. born and raised!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7h1UEkaaZ8

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Elyn Saks asks bold questions about how society treats people with mental illness.

"Is it okay if I totally trash your office?" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately.

https://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_a_tale_of_mental_illness_from_the_inside#t-30129

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Living Well with Schizophrenia

My Experience with My Recent Hospitalization for Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective Disorder

In this video, I provide an update on my recent hospitalization. I talk about what led to the hospitalization as well as what it was like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuoJy1xvzbY

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Successful and Schizophrenic

Elyn R. Saks

Then I made a decision. I would write the narrative of my life. Today I am a chaired professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. I have an adjunct appointment in the department of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of California, San Diego, and am on the faculty of the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The MacArthur Foundation gave me a genius grant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/opinion/sunday/schizophrenic-not-stupid.html?_r=0

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Juno first starting having hallucinations when he was 14 and still at school. This meant he had to take his GCSEs while still in hospital. 

In this video he talks about what it was like for people to be scared of him because of his mental health, why he stopped taking antipsychotics and how having schizophrenia affects his every day life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_suRopnC4