Rachel Streiff

I just talked to one five minutes before this call.

Caregivers are often threatened and assaulted.

It's much worse if maybe they are an undocumented family.

Right.

because they're then afraid to call and ask for help.

So it's really a public safety crisis more than anything else right now.

Co-founder.

Yes.

Arizona Mad Moms is also the co-founder of another group called the Angry Moms.

That effort has to do with access to a really important medication called clozapine.

The other thing that we seem to have lost track of is that these acute brain conditions are treatable with medication.

How do you treat a psychosis disorder

You do that with an antipsychotic, with medication.

There's been a big movement kind of away from psychiatry or perhaps even, I would say, disrespectful to psychiatry.

It's true.

There's a lot of private practice psychiatrists that don't treat serious mental illnesses.

And...

It's a bit tragic.

You know, all the resources, again, go to these mild general mental health conditions and where we need psychiatry, where our lives depend on this is with the serious psychiatric disorders.

Well, the angry moms actually came first.