It was 11 p.m. on a Tuesday in Manhattan when Daniel’s wife called 911. He had been awake for three nights, convinced the upstairs neighbors had installed a listening device, and he had just emptied a kitchen drawer trying to find proof. The paramedics took him to Bellevue Hospital. Daniel’s wife, Iris, expected the kind … Read more
It was 11 p.m. on a Tuesday in Manhattan when Daniel’s wife called 911. He had been awake for three nights, convinced the upstairs neighbors had installed a listening device, and he had just emptied a kitchen drawer trying to find proof. The paramedics took him to Bellevue Hospital. Daniel’s wife, Iris, expected the kind … Read more
Diane had been an HR director at a mid-sized logistics company in Memphis for eleven years before the call that defined her career. It came at 9:14 a.m. on a Tuesday in March: a warehouse supervisor named Curtis had walked into the break room, set his phone on the counter, and told three coworkers, “I’m … Read more
Diane had been an HR director at a mid-sized logistics company in Memphis for eleven years before the call that defined her career. It came at 9:14 a.m. on a Tuesday in March: a warehouse supervisor named Curtis had walked into the break room, set his phone on the counter, and told three coworkers, “I’m … Read more
Patrice raised her son Devin in a third-floor walkup in the Bronx, watched him graduate from a public high school, and then watched schizophrenia take him apart over five years. By the time Devin was twenty-six, he had been hospitalized eleven times, always brought in by police, always discharged within ten days with a prescription … Read more
Patrice raised her son Devin in a third-floor walkup in the Bronx, watched him graduate from a public high school, and then watched schizophrenia take him apart over five years. By the time Devin was twenty-six, he had been hospitalized eleven times, always brought in by police, always discharged within ten days with a prescription … Read more
When the family court judge in Maricopa County, Arizona, told Daniel Reyes he had 48 hours to enroll in a 26-week Batterer Intervention Program before his next custody hearing, Daniel had no idea where to start. The list the court handed him was three pages long, single-spaced, with phone numbers that turned out to be … Read more
When the family court judge in Maricopa County, Arizona, told Daniel Reyes he had 48 hours to enroll in a 26-week Batterer Intervention Program before his next custody hearing, Daniel had no idea where to start. The list the court handed him was three pages long, single-spaced, with phone numbers that turned out to be … Read more
When the Henderson family of Boulder finally sat down with an educational consultant, they had already lived through eighteen months of escalating crisis. Their fifteen-year-old son Caleb had cycled through outpatient therapy, an intensive outpatient program, two short psychiatric hospitalizations, and a residential treatment stay that ended after his insurance ran out. The school district … Read more
When the Henderson family of Boulder finally sat down with an educational consultant, they had already lived through eighteen months of escalating crisis. Their fifteen-year-old son Caleb had cycled through outpatient therapy, an intensive outpatient program, two short psychiatric hospitalizations, and a residential treatment stay that ended after his insurance ran out. The school district … Read more