THE WEEKLY REVEAL
Saturday, July 27, 2024
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Hello! In this issue:
- Behind every person you see in psychosis on the streets, there is a story of institutional failure. We partner with the podcast Lost Patients to understand American psychiatric care.
- We exposed the tactics the Mormon church uses to keep child sexual abuse cases secret.
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THIS WEEK’S PODCAST
The Churn
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Heidi Aurand holds a picture of her late son, Adam. Credit: Daniel Kim/The Seattle Times
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Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop. He cycled for years among emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, prison, and the streets in and around Seattle.
During that time, he picked up diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. He also used opioids and methamphetamine.
Aurand’s life is an example of what happens to many people who experience psychosis in the US: a perpetual shuffle from one place to the next for visits lasting hours or days or weeks, none of them leading to longer-lasting support.
This week on Reveal, reporters from Lost Patients, by KUOW and The Seattle Times, try to answer a question: Why do America’s systems for treating serious mental illness break down in this way?
The answer took them from the present-day streets of Seattle to decades into America’s past.
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🎧 Other places to listen: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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“I think it took a great deal of courage. I mean, the Mormon church is a phenomenally wealthy institution…To go against this machine, really is what it is, took a tremendous amount of courage for these two women.”
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In last week’s Reveal episode, Associated Press reporter Mike Rezendes shared what’s happened since our investigation into the Mormon church’s handling of child sex abuse allegations: namely, that a former Mormon bishop accused of sexually abusing his daughter has been arrested. Rezendes says Chelsea Goodrich and her mom, Lorraine, made that accountability possible by recording their private meetings with church officials.
Listen: Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church
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This issue of The Weekly Reveal was written by Kate Howard and edited by Nikki Frick. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend. Have some thoughts? Drop us a line with feedback or ideas!
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