Conversations that educate, connect, and advocate

Our podcast brings together families, doctors, and legal professionals for honest conversations about mental health care in Canada. Each episode blends education with lived experience — from a family’s first steps after a diagnosis, to understanding substitute decision-making, anosognosia, and treatment, to navigating the Mental Health Act.

Whether you are supporting a loved one or working within the system, these stories and expert voices are here to inform you, connect you with others who understand, and add momentum to the reforms our loved ones need.

Episode 1: The Early Years

Episode 2: Substitute Decision Makers

Episode 3: Anosognosia

Expert Panel Discussion

Episode 5: Severe Disorders Require Medicine

CBC – The Current Podcast

To overcome stigma, some groups supporting people with schizophrenia are taking the name of the illness out of their organization’s name. We talk to advocates and people living with schizophrenia about how that stigma is changing — and yet not changing quickly enough. 

Listen to the podcast here.

Another podcast we recommend

Schizophrenia: Three Moms in the Trenches — three mothers whose sons live with schizophrenia, speaking honestly about the fight our families know well.