Early Intervention for Psychosis: Building a Mental Health Community | Rachel Waford | TEDxDecatur

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In recent years there has been increasing attention given to young people with emerging psychosis, both in popular media coverage of current events as well as policies and movements toward providing specialized services to this vulnerable population. It is often the case that those in a young person's life (parents, siblings, friends, professors, roommates, counselors, mentors, residence life staff) notice changes that may be consistent with emerging psychosis, however they may not be able to identify it as such, and may not know what to do to appropriately support the young person. Or, it is the case that professionals with whom young people cross paths in times of crisis (law enforcement, campus safety officers, first responders, emergency medical providers) are faced with responding to acute mental health crisis, despite this not being their primary role. The age of onset of psychosis (~16-30 years) is such that that the emergence of symptoms often coincides with engagement in a number of relationships, environments, and roles. In turn, many different people can be unintended “first responders” on the "frontlines” of psychiatric crises. By building a broader mental heath community we can empower the many individuals who might come in contact with a young person in psychiatric distress to do something to help. The aim is to decrease the duration of untreated psychosis, minimize the trauma of psychotic illness, and promote recovery. Rachel Waford is a licensed clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA and an assistant professor in Emory University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Dr. Waford received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, MA and her post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University/Grady Health System in Atlanta, GA. Her area of interest and specialty is early identification and intervention for individuals living with severe mental illness, with an emphasis in early psychosis. She also promotes recovery, and destigmatization of mental illness in communities via education and advocacy, and co-authored the text, The Psychosis Response Guide: How to help young people in psychiatric crises. Dr. Waford lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband Jared and their dog Sweet Lou. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Dyre Fate

Actually people who take antipsychotics are more likely to have heart disease and diabetes, as well as excessive weight gain. And the vast majority of people who are treated with these drugs are completely debilitated, never returning to work and school, spending the rest of their life on disability. Recovery rates are best when people are treated with little to no neuroleptics, such as in Open Dialogue and Soteria houses.

Francis Semazzi

Very good talk about mental health. She's right we need a culture change about mental illness

Angel Stinson

Get help and therapy ..And forgive everyone...you cannot ot love without forgiveness ..Go to a church and get delivered... Bind the enemy from yourself I Jesus name and keep getting help .Loving yourself..

Ronald Arjune

The beliefs of the mentally ill are not false because it becomes real with the spirit.

Chelsea Renee

I would like to know when I have an episode and I'm around people people can hear and see what I hear and see how come is it things are visible to the eyes all eyes around me

Tom Jerry

Phycoses is scery I am a suffering from 2016 I can't sense of my life I fort I was a robot 🤖 once I started talking to animals and trees then zombies and invisible people It seemd like a invisible group of people and society was takin and pussing me forward I fill like my mind has bin washed and used for wot they needed now Ive bin spat out fillin used and damaged it's life changing Wen it's happening to my self I had stages for months on end Wer I was talkin about nuffin but magic and technology and ghosts now I fill Ive scerd my self in to a shell a hole it's scery bein locks in a box for years on end it changes your life u no. I really really see god and he says big deal now it's the end of earth its time to pic a side walk with me or run from me.

Tom Jerry

I believe I got a WiFi signal pulsingfrom my brain some people fink I'm joking Wen I say I hear voices or the robots talkin to me I blame drugs opening my mind with no safety stop I have changed my views words and thoughts towards things and it's very pychois like a Wen u see your self as a different person then wot u are or a ego broken but mentaly connection to vision and sound pushing fear and disorganised thinkin

Ninja Matt21

Thank you for this video ❤️✨

Ralitsa Papuchieva

This is for everyone going through psychosis: Stay strong, you will be all right! You’re not alone. Contact someone to help you through this. I had drug induced psychosis from weed and DMT and i felt like i’ll never feel ok and my life is lost but it’s not. I am completely fine and happy right now after 2 months of recovery without medication. I am back to my normal life like nothing has happened. So have hope and patience and everything will be okay♥️♥️

John Thomas Kooz

Really good mindful piece about intervention and getting proper treatment, emphasizing coordinating the timing during a psychotic episode with first responders. Great awareness increaser of psychiatric and psychotic intervention and treatment!

Kasei_sketches

I always found my diagnosis for psychosis,Ironic, because when I was little and my self-harm was brought up (by a misunderstanding and accident) The person who showed up said "There's a place for kids like you," now I was an eight year old, so I wasn't the most rational, and I started to hear a voice, referencing Psych wards in movies. And How I was going to get needles poked into me. So I kept it to myself for years. I didn't get a real diagnosis till I was 15. In that spare time it started to develop more and more, I started hearing things, seeing things, and having delusions. All because I was scared to get help from a physc ward.

Corbin Grieves

Honestly, I may be undergoing psychosis but I'm doing my best to maintain my moods, diet, and health. Socially, it's harder due to lockdowns and such (I understand why) but I do feel people with Psychosis need more supports and a schedule. That's my main problem, but I'm finding my way. I try not to do too much alcohol and marijuana cause I'm more likely to devolp Schizophrenia. Haven't seen any psychologists or therapists cause I ain't got the money for it. I'm more afraid of getting diagnosed incorrectly and pay for a whole lot of nothing.