Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Stephanie Beilin: Mother's Journey Through Mental Illness and Incarceration
17 May 2025
What is the focus of Stephanie Beilin's experience?
set up teams to support teachers and support staff to take care of these vulnerable, you know, population that is very much integrated into the public school. It's kind of interesting that given my background and then prior to that, I was a medical social worker actually at Beverly Hospital, which is an acute care medical surgical hospital. So that's my professional background.
And right now I'm still practicing. I provide clinical services to individuals who are dealing with depression, anxiety, life transition, stress in the family, kind of all of the above. Given all of that 16 years ago,
almost 17 years ago my son came to my husband and i describing some symptoms of having racing thoughts and some anxiety he was having a lot of difficulty managing inwardly not outwardly inwardly some of his experiences in life where objectively no one really saw it he was you know in the top five percent of his class highly regarded football player was a
Rotary International student was super successful, but that did not translate to what was going on with him internally. And he was having a lot of hardship managing some of the racing thoughts and some of the sort of intrusive thinking that was going on inside of him.
So with all this happening, what were your next steps?
To let you know, my husband, he's a clinical psychologist. So we felt like we were pretty well equipped and had access to good quality services in the Boston area. Took him right in to see a health professional.
Given the genetic predisposition on my husband's side of the family with bipolar disorder, the psychiatrist felt it was indicated to get him on a variety of medication to manage some of the racing thoughts and some of the issues of the anxiety and depression.
With all those challenges, what were the next steps you used and how did it progress?
You know, when it did take some time to manage the medication, I mean, that is never easy. We felt like he was doing great. He was highly functional, had friends, was really very, very successful in many different areas. Being from New England, he went to one of the NESCAC goals, played football for four years, traveled the world, studying international studies, worked as a teacher, coach, mentor.
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