What a remarkable podcast! not only is there high-quality information about schizophrenia and in particular it’s prodromal phase, but also the energy and commitment of the three moms is absolutely amazing. it was an honor to be included.

This podcast is helping me accept and understand so much of what I’m going through as well as my family. I grew up with a mom diagnosed and on and off meds. Now my sister and myself were recently diagnosed with schizophrenia and it’s been a truly terrifying experience. Thank you so much for sharing and showing hope for everyone involved.

Finding out there are actually other moms that have gone through the exact same misery and tragedy that my family and I have was life-changing. I sleep better and feel less alone. Thank you for bringing this into the light so that we can all find answers together- and move forward! I would love to someday tell my story and be heard as well I am sure that it is extremely validating and comforting to find your voices! Amazing books as well! Thank you, and bravo!

I’m so thankful for these real life moms and all the information they share! I’m currently in crisis with my son who has schizophrenia and I’ve gained so much knowledge to help me & his dad move forward. We currently are starting the process for guardianship. Our son has been homeless for several months now. Thank you ladies, keep up the good fight🙏❤️

My 21 year-old son is currently in denial with his schizophrenia. He’s already been arrested twice and homeless in New York. Thank you for this podcast because it helps me feel less alone. I wish it wouldn’t be so hard to get my son help when it feels like homelessness or jail is inevitable for him. But I have the support of a community like this podcast! It gives me hope. And we can’t lose hope.

I am a mother in the trenches as well. I just “happened “ upon this podcast while googling something about schizophrenia. This podcast has made me feel both broken open and healed with all the emotions I have in dealing with an adult child with this horrendous illness. I facilitate a NAMI group and will definitely pass this on to other parents “in the trenches”. Thank you so much

I’m a psychiatrist in Los Angeles who works with patients with SMI and psychiatry residents. Since a fellow psychiatrist recommended it to me, I recommend this to family members of individuals with SMI and psych residents. Thank you, Randye, Mimi and Mindy, for this amazing project!

Thank you for this podcast! Thank you for bringing the issues that surround having a loved one with SMI, to the open to be talked about. Helping to reduce the stigma. Thank you ladies for being so honest and open to help all of us relate and not feel so alone. This is the first podcast that has really helped me step outside and talk about in the open about the difficult difficulties that’s around trying to care for our son.~ LeeAnn

Love the podcast. Makes me feel less alone. I have an adult daughter with bipolar, OCD, (and likely borderline personality disorder, too). So although it’s not schizophrenia, I totally relate to everything you all talk about. I appreciate your broadening the topic to SMI since it’s all so debilitating to our adult children.

I learned this term today listening to the podcast. Thank you for this lifeline! This is so important!

I have an adult daughter that was diagnosed with schizophrenia in her early 20s and I had no idea what was going on. My daughter is now 36 years old and I am much wiser and learned about the brokenness of our mental health care system and also how to advocate more for my daughter in the world that we live in. I have found valuable help in this podcast series not only from an educational standpoint, but also from a comforting and supportive place to be that safe and where I can hear the things that I need to hear to keep me fighting and helping my adult daughter live her best life here. I am so grateful for the three moms that are vulnerable and share their real life stories warts and all tragedies and triumphs what worked what didn’t work how we can solve things. I have found that there is much comfort to be received from all the tireless, fierce mothers out there who are relentless in their love for their loved ones with SMI. I would look forward to each and every podcast that came out and I would listen and gain something from each and every podcast. Thank you thank you thank you with large hugs to each of you for all the time and effort and heart that you put into each and every episode. Keep on keeping on and encouraging all of us in this life that we live with our loved ones.

Good show lots of great information and it has helped a lot of people. Please keep doing what you are doing. One thing that would be nice is a bit less interrupting of guests for time reasons. Personally I would prefer to hear out what a guest has to say and have a 50 minute episode or edit out some stuff after the fact vs. have them get cut off.

Gracias por hablar sobre este tema🥺💕

I have listened to your podcast from its inception. “Trenches” is an apt word as battling Schizophrenia feels like war, for the patient and for the family. Thank you so much for providing a strong sense of community and caring. It’s hard to have hope throughout the numerous and continuous ups and downs of this horrible illness. My 29 year old son is so low functioning and lives in a delusional state for much of the time. We mourn the incredible person that he was, and still is, though hidden and unreachable. It’s been a long torturous path for over 8 years now and it truly helps to not feel so alone. I so appreciate all of your time, attention and advocacy. I encourage you to monetize your podcast and get sponsors. You all deserve to be paid for what you do!

I'm so grateful to have found your show as a mother with an adult send a schizophrenia we've been dealing with the ups and the downs of this disease and your show gives me hope

Any chance you can consider using the correct terminology when addressing people with substance use disorder. Language is stigmatizing. It’s not substance abuse. No one chooses to suffer with addiction. Addiction is a disease and needs medical treatment. Kind Regards, M. Lawry

These women, despite their family experiences—or maybe because of them—have no business recording a podcast where they purport to have any meaningful knowledge of schizophrenia. Their opinions are disturbingly judgmental and sadly myopic. I’ve even read each of their books, and they’re not bad books at all. But this podcast is most definitely bad. Do not use this podcast, or these hosts, as any sort of authority or source of information on schizophrenia—or really any mental illness, or psychology/psychiatry at all!

Helpful information for family and friends of people afflicted with serious brain disorders. Helps give perspective on what it means to be a care manager for your adult child who has a different brain. Also lets you know what some people with these disorders are thinking and experiencing when they experience their disconnects. Offers tools and resources for loved ones to better be able to deal with the high strangeness that occurs when their loved one slips into an “episode”. Keep up the good work, fellow “mom’s in the trenches”

So true…this is not the life we planned for our babies. Nor is it the lives they hoped to have. Thank you for sharing.