Why Are Nursing Homes Diagnosing Patients With Schizophrenia? In this episode of Schizophrenia and The City, Michelle examines a recent New York Times article that investigates the misdiagnoses of nursing home patients with schizophrenia. Because of the lack of staff to care for patients, nursing homes try to sedate their patients to control [...]
Top 5 Schizophrenia Episode Questions Answered What Does a Schizophrenia Episode Look Like? What Triggers a Schizophrenic Episode? How Long Does A Schizophrenic Episode Last? Do I Remember My Episodes? How Do I Control These Episodes? Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC answers these questions in this episode of Schizophrenia and The City. Like The Background? [...]
Schizophrenia And Off Meds **Trigger Warning** Mental Health Medication Discussion In this episode of Schizophrenia and The City, Michelle is off her meds - not by choice, however. After infuriating mishaps with the doctor and the pharmacy, Michelle was only able to take four of her daily morning medications to control [...]
Top 5 Questions I Get About Schizophrenia **Trigger Warning** Psych Ward and Suicide Discussion In this episode of Schizophrenia and The City, Michelle answers five common questions about schizophrenia episodes. The first is this: what does an episode look like? For Michelle, an episode means talking to people that she has [...]
The Top 5 Questions About The Psych Ward Answered **Trigger Warning** Psych Ward and Suicide Discussion Here are your Top 5 Questions About The Psych Ward Answered! I put a form on my Instagram that let people ask me their questions about the Psych Ward. From all of the questions asked, these were the [...]
Psych Ward Memes - Reaction 4 **Trigger Warning** Psych Ward Talk Let's do this! Part 4 of Psych Ward Memes Reactions. Do you think psych ward memes are funny? Do you think they would be funny to a schizophrenic girl who has been to the psych ward 3 times? Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts [...]
Schizophrenia and Sports **Trigger Warning** Mental Health Talk **Trigger Warning** Mental Health Talk. What's it like to be an athlete with Schizophrenia? What about being an athlete with any mental illness? In this video, Michelle Hammer talks about playing sports throughout her life with Schizophrenia and even being a college athlete. Can you play [...]
Psych Ward Meme - Reaction 3 **Trigger Warning** Psych Ward Talk. Here we go on part 3 of psych ward memes reactions. Are psych ward memes funny? Are they funny to a schizophrenic girl who has been to the psych ward 3 times? In this video, Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts to psych ward [...]
We Need To Talk About Suicide | Nick's Story **Trigger Warning** Suicide Since Thursday, July 15th, we have been looking for my friend Nick Lopez. Nick had been living stable for a long time. But that day something triggered his Bipolar disorder to send him into an episode. Wednesday, July 21st, his mother identified [...]
Psych Ward Nurse Meme - Reaction Psych Ward Nurse Memes!!!! Are you surprised these actually exist? Do you think they would be funny to a schizophrenic girl who has been to the psych ward 3 times? Let's see what Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC thinks! Michelle Hammer reacts to Psych Ward Nurse Memes in this [...]
Schizophrenic Reacts to Psych Ward Memes Here we go on part 2 of psych ward memes reactions. Are psych ward memes funny? Are they funny to a schizophrenic girl who has been to the psych ward 3 times? In this video, Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts to psych ward memes in this episode of [...]
We Need To Talk About Suicide | My Story **Trigger Warning** Suicide Suicide is something people don't like to talk about. When it's on the news we hear about how great the person was and all the memories their friends and families had with them. What we usually don't hear about is why they [...]
Having Friends Who Have A Mental Illness Do you have a friend with a mental illness? Odds are most likely you do, or at least know someone that does. Have you ever wondered about their perspective of the friendships they have? Do you wonder why it can be so difficult for a person with [...]
Psych Ward Memes - Reaction Are psych ward memes funny? Are they funny to a schizophrenic girl who has been to the psych ward 3 times? Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts to psych ward memes in this episode of Schizophrenia And The City. Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and [...]
Schizophrenia Simulation - Reaction Are Schizophrenia simulations accurate? What is a real Schizophrenic episode look like? As a Schizophrenia Advocate Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts to a new batch of Schizophrenia Memes in this week’s episode of Schizophrenia And The City. Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and spends her [...]
Schizophrenia Memes - REACTION 2 Are Schizophrenia Memes funny? Well, are they funny to a person with Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia Advocate Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts to a new batch of Schizophrenia Memes in this week’s episode of Schizophrenia And The City. Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and spends her [...]
People with Schizophrenia Refuse Help Because of This So many times I am asked, "My son/daughter/friend has Schizophrenia and they refuse the help I am trying to get them." Well in this episode, Schizophrenia Advocate Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC tries her best to explain why in this week's episode Schizophrenia And The City. [...]
Schizophrenia Memes - REACTION Are Schizophrenia Memes funny? Well, are they funny to a person with Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia Advocate Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC reacts to Schizophrenia Memes in this week's episode of Schizophrenia And The City. Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and spends her time passionately fighting [...]
Schizophrenia Jokes Is it ok to make fun of Schizophrenia? What about using it as an adjective? Well in this video Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC and Dan Laitman from The Desk Comedy News share our Schizophrenia jokes in this week's episode of Schizophrenia And The City. Michelle Hammer is [...]
Paranoia and Schizophrenia What does paranoia feel like? How does paranoia affect our day-to-day life? Does social media affect your paranoia? What are some of our coping skills/grounding techniques that help with paranoia? How does misunderstanding of paranoia lead to further discrimination and stigma for people living with psychosis? In this episode of Schizophrenia [...]
What Meds Do We Take? In this episode of Schizophrenia and the City, Michelle Hammer and Cecilia McGough answer the very commonly asked question “What meds do they take?” Well, not quite. Rather, they discuss the reasons why they don’t typically answer that question. People who ask that question are usually asking because they [...]
Schizophrenia Is Not A Look In this episode of Schizophrenia and the City, Michelle Hammer and Cecilia McGough put makeup on each other and talk about, well, life. Michelle didn’t put makeup on when she was younger. She was partly insecure not knowing how to put on makeup, and the other part was paranoid [...]
Schizophrenia and Relationships In this episode of Schizophrenia and the City, Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC and Cecilia McGough from Students With Psychosis discuss relationships. Even before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation has been a prevalent issue in the psychosis community. For Cecilia, just getting out of bed was hard enough and led [...]
LGBTQ2S+ & Schizophrenia Why is it prevalent to talk about psychosis within the LGBTQ2S+ community? How are our coming out stories different or the same as our opening up stories about psychosis? What can the Psychosis community learn about language from the LGBTQ2S+ community? What additional barriers to care or additional stigma is presented [...]
Psych Ward & Schizophrenia (PART 1) What is a psych ward really like? Did we find our stays helpful? How were we treated by fellow patients and staff? In this week's episode of @schizophreniaandthecity, Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC and Cecilia McGough from Students With Psychosis discuss their lived experiences in the psych ward. Thank [...]
