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
Marcus, a 38-year-old construction supervisor in Phoenix, ended up in the emergency room on a 112-degree afternoon last summer with a heat-related crisis his doctors initially mistook for a panic attack. He was confused, irritable, and convinced something was deeply wrong with his mind. His electrolytes told a different story. He had been drinking water … 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
Sophia Marquez was sixteen when she came home from her second residential treatment stay in Minneapolis. Her parents had pulled her from the comprehensive high school where she had been using opioids since freshman year. The treatment team’s discharge plan called for her to enroll somewhere with sober peers, integrated counseling, and accountability that did … Read more
Sophia Marquez was sixteen when she came home from her second residential treatment stay in Minneapolis. Her parents had pulled her from the comprehensive high school where she had been using opioids since freshman year. The treatment team’s discharge plan called for her to enroll somewhere with sober peers, integrated counseling, and accountability that did … Read more
Lieutenant Sarah Chen, a 27-year-old Army nurse, returned home to Tacoma after her second deployment with no warning sign more dramatic than fatigue. Two weeks after she landed, she woke at three in the morning convinced that the air conditioning vent in her bedroom was transmitting orders. She paced the house, repeated phrases under her … Read more
Lieutenant Sarah Chen, a 27-year-old Army nurse, returned home to Tacoma after her second deployment with no warning sign more dramatic than fatigue. Two weeks after she landed, she woke at three in the morning convinced that the air conditioning vent in her bedroom was transmitting orders. She paced the house, repeated phrases under her … Read more
Patricia Donnelly, a 58-year-old retired teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, had been in private-practice therapy for two years when her panic attacks worsened despite three medication trials and weekly CBT. Her primary care physician at Cleveland Clinic suggested a referral to the hospital’s Center for Behavioral Health, where psychiatrists, psychologists, and a neuropsychologist could coordinate. Patricia … Read more
Patricia Donnelly, a 58-year-old retired teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, had been in private-practice therapy for two years when her panic attacks worsened despite three medication trials and weekly CBT. Her primary care physician at Cleveland Clinic suggested a referral to the hospital’s Center for Behavioral Health, where psychiatrists, psychologists, and a neuropsychologist could coordinate. Patricia … Read more