Patricia Deegan: Personal Medicine

Patricia Deegan, a leader in the consumer-survivor movement, discusses her journey surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis, empowered medication decisions, and her development of innovative assistive technology. Topics include rejecting a prognosis of doom, the impact of medication on mental health, a peer-run decision support center, prevalence of diagnoses and personal medicine, assessing medication costs and personal motivation, establishing a personal medicine program, and spreading the concept of personal medicine.