Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.

Welcome to the Madden America podcast. My name is Brooks Seam, and I am the author of May Cause Side Effects.

Today I'm here with Rick Fee, who is the president of the Richard Fee Foundation.

And we're just going to get straight into it, because as we talked about over email,

and you and I have met before, neither one of us have letters after our name.

So we don't really need to go on a whole academic bio because that's not why

we're here, is it? No, it's not. There's definitely no letters front behind or whatever, I guess.

My thing is at this point is I'm a parent advocate and sharing my son's story because he's not

here to tell his own with the hopes that it will help others, to help them

seek a better way to manage their own health care, their own diagnoses, and whatever medicine

they may or may not decide to take.

Why don't you introduce us to your son?

Our son, Richard, he was born 1986 first child.

And when he came into our lives, it just absolutely changed us immediately.

I knew before I became a father, I wanted to be a totally different parent than what my parents were and wanted to have kids

young so we could do things together.

And we just had the best time.

It was absolutely awesome.

He was fun.

He was very athletic.

He was a smart young man.

His sister came along that kind of brought the whole thing together. And Richard was just a very likable kid all the way through high school,

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