Imagine a house where every room follows a different architect's plan.

Doorways don't connect.

Staircases lead nowhere.

Lost Patients is a new podcast examining our complicated system for treating psychosis,

one that loses patients to an endless loop between the streets,

jail, and hospitals. We'll ask how it got so bad and how it can get better.

Listen to lost patients from KAW and the Seattle Times, part of the NPR Network.

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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

When was the last time you negotiated something? Not your salary though.

Well think about it this way. Have you ever compromised with a friend or a housemate,

partner, a family member? If so, you have done some form of negotiation.

Whether it was over who's going to do the dishes, what you were having for dinner,

or where you were going to go on vacation together.

I had some friends the other day, a couple deciding on what ice cream flavors that they were going to get from the grocery store.

That's Joan Moon, founder of Moon Negotiation, a negotiation and career coaching firm.

She's also the head of negotiation coaching at the Harvard Kennedy School.

And she says, yeah, some negotiations are much higher stakes than others. But the point

is, negotiating can help you come up with compromises, creative solutions that go beyond

yes or no, this or that. And that can help you get unstuck. It can really improve your everyday contentment,

your satisfaction with your

action with your situation and it can really give you a sense of agency.

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