Deb BushongFounder, Owner, & Therapist, Conversations Therapy · Clinical Expertise Meets Lived Experience in Psychosis Care

Intro Video to Recovery Interviews

21 Jun 2024 · 3 min

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In this introductory YouTube video, Deb Bushong‑Song, owner of Conversations Therapy and Supervision and host of the Fuel to Change channel, announces a forthcoming series of recovery‑story videos featuring men she has treated who have experienced psychosis. She explains that the participants represent a range of psychosis severities and are at various stages of recovery, and she emphasizes that the core message of the series is hope—especially for those in the early, seemingly hopeless phases. Bushong‑Song describes the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Early Psychosis “HOPE” program (Healing Over Psychosis Early), a coordinated specialty‑care initiative for individuals within three years of psychosis onset, noting that she served as team lead and therapist for five years. She frames the upcoming stories as testimonies of the program’s impact and the individuals’ resilience, inviting viewers to watch and be inspired.

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Hi, my name is Deb Bushong-Song, and I own Conversations Therapy and Supervision. I also have a YouTube channel called Fuel to Change, and what we're getting ready to upload is a series of recovery stories from some of the people that I've worked with, and I just wanted to give a little, um, you know, pre-information before I load the videos. So these are guys that I've worked with over a few years, and they are guys who have experienced psychosis at varying levels and in differing ways, but they are also guys who are at different stages of recovery. So The main thing I want to get across in this video is that there is hope, because I know in the very early stages it feels like there's no hope. And you'll hear these guys talk about that too, um, how scary that is for everybody. And, um, they also talk about something called the Hope Program, and that is UT Southwestern Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry Early Psychosis Program. It's a coordinated specialty care program and is a subspecialty program in the, in the general psychiatry clinic. It has a series of specialty providers who focus, whose focus is solely working with psychosis. And people who go into that program are in the first 3 years of having developed psychosis. So several of the guys might talk about something called the HOPE program, and that's what it is. It's known as the HOPE program by a lot of people, which stands for Healing Over Psychosis Early. And that's a program I worked on for about 5 years. I was the team lead and therapist and did several types of therapy. So it's an awesome program and these guys are amazing. I hope you enjoy their recovery stories as much as I did and do. So yeah, I'm just gonna stop talking and load the first couple of stories that we have ready to go. So thank you and enjoy these.