Borderline personality disorder is one of the most stigmatizing and sensational (pejoratively speaking) conditions that the mental healthcare world tries to understand and “treat”. So needless to say, if the experts are always struggling to fig

Your Reluctant Sidekick in Recovery – The Health Insurance Company

Jan 25th, 2019 30m 34s

OK, from birth, we are all potty trained, learn to eat, then distrust everyone over 30, and finally, hate insurance companies. But when we are expected them to pay our healthcare bills, we need to understand how they want to control the quality

Visiting a Psychiatric Hospital – Primer for First Timers, and How to Handle Yourself AND Help the Patient When You Are There

Dec 27th, 2018 16m 5s

One of the most mystical but misunderstood places in the medical world is the psychiatric hospital; this place has been dehumanized in our modern culture, and has a plethora of characters..the “looney bin, padded rooms, “crazytown”, all making

A Trauma Treatment Primer for Parents and Families

Dec 7th, 2018 52m 31s

Trauma - What does it look like? …Someone I love is suffering and it’s tearing me apart . . . How do I help? In todays’s episode Tom dives into trauma, treatment, and recovery…what it is, how it happens, and how you, the parent or family, can d

Doing the Impossible - Hospitalizing Someone You Love Against Their Will

Nov 30th, 2018 19m 34s

Due to popular demand, Tom jumped into one of the hottest (translation: painful and confusing) topics for parent and family caregivers: having to use a mobile crisis team to get a loved one into the hospital against their will - all in the i

How Does a Psychiatrist Do Their Job?

Nov 23rd, 2018 25m 42s

As a caregiver, you are practically trained by the mental healthcare world to be an outsider in the treatment process for someone you love. You didn’t ask to be marginalized, and you weren’t told your participation is unwelcome. This just hap

How We Should Look at Recovery from Mental Illness… and Recover Ourselves as Caregivers

Nov 16th, 2018 22m 53s

Recovery is a very loaded word in the mental health world. It is desperately pursued by parents with adult kids with psychiatric problems and other family caregivers. And as a concept, it has a different meaning medically than it does function

How Families Navigate The Mental Healthcare System to Get Quality Care for a Loved One

Nov 9th, 2018 23m 47s

Tom O'Connor, the host of Family Psych Consumer, welcomes his listeners to his podcast community – and walks you through why Family Psych Consumer is providing consumer reporting in mental healthcare NOW and how his content helps parents and fa

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Welcome to Family Psych Consumer, America’s New Place to Navigate the Mental Healthcare System

Sep 18th, 2018 3m 45s

Family Psych Consumer is a next-generation community where parents and families can learn about the confusing world of mental healthcare in America. Each week, Tom and his expert guests will bring the best critical thinking, skills, and ongoing

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