Look Again: Mental Illness Re-Examined

This podcast is for anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness. In other words, it’s for everyone.

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BCSS Look Again Podcast hosts Melissa Mckenna and Faydra Aldridge

A BCSS Podcast

‘Look Again: Mental Illness Re-Examined’ is a groundbreaking new podcast by BCSS and supporting partners. The podcast highlights the humanity of people living with mental illness while dispelling the myths by sharing the voices of medical experts, family members, and people living with mental illness.

Research, hope, and resilience

Host Faydra Aldridge, CEO of BCSS, and co-host Melissa McKenna, Marketing and Communications Manager at BCSS, speak with medical experts, families, and people with lived experience of mental illness to dispel myths and get to the truth. Be prepared for frank conversations, up-to-date medical information, immersive sound design, and stories of hope and resilience.

This podcast also aims to humanize the impacts of schizophrenia on families and highlights the importance of education and support. ‘Look Again’ is for anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness; in other words, it’s for everyone.

Our podcast pals

As a community, we want to share some other podcasts that have attempted to challenge the stigma surrounding schizophrenia and other severe and persistent mental illness. We may not endorse everything said by the following podcasts, but we did want to share some that are also helping break the stigma surrounding schizophrenia and serious mental illness.