Tony Mantor

What, in your opinion, are the most effective ways to support and empower individuals with schizophrenia? How do we educate and reassure families and communities to reduce the fear, the stigma, and uncertainty surrounding this mental health challenge?

What, in your opinion, are the most effective ways to support and empower individuals with schizophrenia? How do we educate and reassure families and communities to reduce the fear, the stigma, and uncertainty surrounding this mental health challenge?

When you put it just the way that you did, that's a very powerful statement. So how do you convey a pain that's so profound it's unlike anything they've ever known, a silent, unshakable weight that lingers in every moment to someone who's never felt it or struggles to understand it?

When you put it just the way that you did, that's a very powerful statement. So how do you convey a pain that's so profound it's unlike anything they've ever known, a silent, unshakable weight that lingers in every moment to someone who's never felt it or struggles to understand it?

When you put it just the way that you did, that's a very powerful statement. So how do you convey a pain that's so profound it's unlike anything they've ever known, a silent, unshakable weight that lingers in every moment to someone who's never felt it or struggles to understand it?

So how do you get through it? What is your secret?

So how do you get through it? What is your secret?

So how do you get through it? What is your secret?

Sure.

Sure.

Sure.

Okay, so I think you hit a very good thing on the parent side. When you go through something like you're going through with your son, you're consistently thinking about it. You don't have the power to change it. It can get depressing. Depression can lead to a lot of things. It can make people tired, no energy, lethargic. How do you get past that so you don't fall into that trap?

Okay, so I think you hit a very good thing on the parent side. When you go through something like you're going through with your son, you're consistently thinking about it. You don't have the power to change it. It can get depressing. Depression can lead to a lot of things. It can make people tired, no energy, lethargic. How do you get past that so you don't fall into that trap?

Okay, so I think you hit a very good thing on the parent side. When you go through something like you're going through with your son, you're consistently thinking about it. You don't have the power to change it. It can get depressing. Depression can lead to a lot of things. It can make people tired, no energy, lethargic. How do you get past that so you don't fall into that trap?

How do you keep yourself motivated so that you can get out there and beat that drum to hopefully make things better?

How do you keep yourself motivated so that you can get out there and beat that drum to hopefully make things better?

How do you keep yourself motivated so that you can get out there and beat that drum to hopefully make things better?

So what would you tell people that are just getting the understanding of what their son or daughter will be going through? They are still figuring it out, but still trying to cope with it. What advice would you give them? Because it's not just them now that have to deal with it.

So what would you tell people that are just getting the understanding of what their son or daughter will be going through? They are still figuring it out, but still trying to cope with it. What advice would you give them? Because it's not just them now that have to deal with it.

So what would you tell people that are just getting the understanding of what their son or daughter will be going through? They are still figuring it out, but still trying to cope with it. What advice would you give them? Because it's not just them now that have to deal with it.