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Crystal Fox

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
365 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Most elementary schools, they know when something's going on with a kid that has autism.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

I mean, they recognize it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

They're educated on it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

They clearly know what autism is now.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

The middle and high schools, you know, they do need to be trained on what this looks like.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

I don't know if it's nurses or counselors or to teach the parents.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

But also the research, until we start looking at it before the crisis hits and see what the early signs are, until we start studying that scientifically, we're never going to catch it like we do with autism.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

We're never going to catch it early.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

And the interesting thing is with autism, autism is going to play out no matter how it's going to play out, especially for the severely autistic.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Now, if you're not as severe, you're going to have a chance for complete recovery.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Schizophrenia can have complete recovery if we just find it in almost everybody.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

In memory of my son Joshua, I think I would like to choose that psychosis needs to be treated as the medical emergency that it is, more like a heart attack or a suicide attempt, and we need to treat that illness, and it needs to be considered a crisis.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Good work.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Thank you, Tony.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 3: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Thank you for having us.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 2: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

Yes.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 2: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

I was going to respond a little bit to everything as fast as I can here.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 2: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

So when they were talking about jail and not guilty by reason of insanity, again, Arizona has a bit of a problem, especially in Maricopa County.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 2: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

We're kind of the wild west out here.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
NSSC: Voices of Change Part 2: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

So our rule 11, because they did not want to pay for hospitalization to restore people to competency, they do it really poorly in the jails.