Valentine's Day is on the horizon and NPR's All Songs Considered has you covered

with a mix of lesser-known love songs for that special someone in your life.

You don't make your wife playlist?

Well, not anymore.

I sealed the deal.

Robin.

Robin, Robin, Robin.

She's not.

We're going to discuss this later.

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Lost Patience is about serious mental illness. This episode involves drug overdose and death,

so it might be disturbing for some listeners.

Heidi Urand hadn't been in contact with her son, Adam, six months when a Mother's Day card appeared in her mailbox in 2022.

Adam sent me a Mother's Day card, and he had not done that in years.

I mean, really a long time.

And it was exciting because we hadn't heard from him.

Adam had diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and a list of other

mental health conditions. We met him back at the start of this series. And despite all these

diagnoses, he had spent about seven years at that point ricocheting among emergency rooms,

psychiatric hospitals, jails, a stint in prison, and the streets in and around Seattle,

without ever really stabilizing. Contributing to that cycle were the drugs he used,

including opioids and meth. Adam was almost 40 years old when Heidi got that Mother's Day card.

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