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Lives Reimagined: Changing the Course of Psychotic Illness (Ep. 125)

September 11, 2025 • Randye Kaye • Season 5 • Episode 25

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Lives Reimagined: Changing the Course of Psychotic Illness (Ep. 125)

Guests: authors of the new book (same name) -

Katharine Dougherty PhD, and Lisa Mann, PhD , and Dr. Rocco Marotta-a psychiatrist known for his successful treatment of "hopeless" cases-and practiced with remarkable success by the team he led at The Lodge program at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Written for families struggling to navigate the world of neuropsychiatric illness and useful for providers looking for a different approach to the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders

The book can be found at the following sites by putting in the title and authors: amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, sdppublishingsolutions.com

The Center for the Treatment and Study of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: silverhillhospital.org/TheCenter

Why relabel SMI NBD (neuropsychiatric brain disease )?

THEMES:

Hope and persistence are critical
No two cases are exactly the same
Medication and adherence and sobriety are important to sustained stability
It takes a team and long-term relationships to sustain stability
Communication among team members is critical
Taking small risks and succeeding leads to other risks
Rigid ideology has no place when you are untangling complexity and nuance
The diagnosis of NBD is often tied to a sense of shame and failure for patients and families
There are many important layers to the recovery journey
Constant reevaluation is important and this includes the importance of patient feedback

Poetry from Zachary Sutphin

"White pink blue"

White pink blue

The pills look like candy

But taste like defeat.

They taste like mother’s advice.

Correct, we grow too see

I take them Because otherwise,

I might start believing.. believing in things that can't be believed

in minds unlike mine

They tell me it’s illness.

But what if it’s clarity?