Lost Patients
The Way Out
Apr 9, 2024
Former patient Adam Aurand is discharged from a psychiatric hospital onto Seattle streets, revealing the failures of mental health care system. Podcast explores challenges in discharging patients, struggles in finding supportive housing, and the tragic aftermath of Adam's story. Highlights the need for better community-based care and support for individuals with serious mental illness.
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- Adam's discharge from psychiatric care left him vulnerable on Seattle streets, showcasing gaps in transitioning patients to community support.
- Accessing Social Security Disability Payments proved challenging for Adam post-discharge, highlighting systemic barriers in mental health care support.
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Adam's Complicated Mental Health Journey
Adam's mental health journey was filled with diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder, leading to a tumultuous cycle of emergency rooms, jails, psychiatric hospitals, and homelessness. Despite hopes pinned on Western State Hospital to finally stabilize Adam, his discharge after ten months left him back on the Seattle streets, showing signs of mental illness.
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