Carmen (story sent in by listener)

if you have a story you would like to share you can email us at [email protected] Frederick Hernandez brings us a listener-submitted story that pulls back the curtain on the reality of living with a dual diagnosis. "Carmen" has spent half her life battling both paranoid schizophrenia and a meth addiction that she used to quiet the voices.This episode explores the human being underneath the labels—the mother, the daughter, and the survivor who is still here, still trying, and still finding things to notice in the quiet of the morning. A raw, honest, and necessary look at addiction and mental health in America's Central Valley.