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Lived Experience with Psychosis: Empathy, Chosen Family, Meds
Health Hats: I’ll tell you a funny story before we start. One of my first interviews was with this fellow who was a clown. Reading the Room. Lessons from the Clowns. Take 2. He worked at Boston Children’s Hospital with the kids. He talked about being a clown and the importance of being comfortable with failure. He would go into the rooms and had to read the room fast. What are the dynamics? How’s the kid feeling, and how are the parents feeling? He says you must be comfortable with half the time misreading the room. We had this great conversation, then hung up, and I realized I had never recorded. I had to call ‘him back and say, Let’s embrace failure. I forgot to record. So, we did it again. It was better.
Emeka Chima: Oh, thanks for sharing that. That’s an amazing story. That’s why it’s so important to be heard.
Health Hats: It is. With being heard, sometimes you hit the mark, and sometimes you don’t. People just don’t get it. Or you had an off day or whatever it was. I don’t know. I do know. I’m like you. I’m smart. I’m pretty. I’m charismatic. And I mess up.
Emeka Chima: I do that all the time, so don’t worry about that.
Health Hats: All right, let’s get rolling.
