Jessica Ferguson : Brother in Crisis: A Family's Desperate Fight for Mental Health Support

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World

Tony Mantor

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Send us a text Jessica Ferguson shares the deeply personal story of her brother's struggle with serious mental illness and how systemic failures led to his incarceration after being accused of a triple homicide when he should have been in psychiatric care. • Her brother had been stable with his mental illness for a decade before showing concerning behavior changes in early 2023 • Despite three psychiatric hospitalizations within months, he was repeatedly discharged after 72-hour holds with n...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me the World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mayator.
0:10.2	Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.5	Join us as our guests tell us their stories.
0:21.5	Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry.
0:25.5	Real life people who will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.
0:34.8	Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance, and a better understanding for autism
0:41.3	around the world.
0:47.3	Hi, I'm Tony Mantor. Welcome to Why Not Me the World, Humanity Over Handcuffs, the Silent Crisis Special Event.
0:58.7	Today, we're joined by Jessica Ferguson, who will share the deeply personal story of her brother's struggle with mental illness.
1:06.5	She'll take us through the challenges of supporting him, the events and circumstances that
1:11.6	ultimately led to his incarceration, and the family's ongoing efforts to advocate for mental
1:17.8	health awareness and reform. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, no problem, no problem. Can you give us a little
1:24.1	background and what led your journey to supporting mental illness?
1:29.1	So I have a sibling who has severe mental illness. And at the beginning of 2023, he's been very,
1:38.4	it's been with his treatment for the last, he's had it for 20 years. But I mean, so the last 10 years,
1:43.6	he's been stable and fine.
1:46.0	In the beginning of 2023, we started to notice some changes going on.
1:50.4	He was not quite himself and then just kind of navigating the system and, you know,
1:55.5	trying to get him help, you know, the next three to four or five months or so and just constantly
2:00.3	being, you know, involuntary hospitalizations or five months or so and just constantly being, you know,
2:01.2	involuntary hospitalizations for 72 hours and then left back out without any kind of involvement
2:06.5	of the family or any care plan put in place, even though we're begging, please keep him.
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