Media & Press
Sally Littlefield is a schizophrenia advocate, speaker, and writer whose work has been featured in national media, documentaries, podcasts, and widely shared social media conversations.
Through interviews, writing, and public advocacy, she speaks openly about psychosis, recovery, stigma, and the human side of mental health care.
Organizations & Publications
Featured Video
VOICES MAGNIFIED:
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
A+E Networks Documentary
Featured in the nationally broadcast A+E Networks documentary Voices Magnified: Mental Health Crisis, sharing firsthand perspectives on psychosis, schizophrenia, recovery, and the realities of navigating the mental health system.
Featured In
NATIONAL PRESS
Associated Press (2024)
“A promising new schizophrenia drug showed mixed results”
Quoted in national coverage discussing new schizophrenia treatments and patient perspectives.
Associated Press (2022)
“Genes link bipolar, schizophrenia, once thought unrelated”
Featured in reporting on emerging psychiatric research and schizophrenia-spectrum conditions.
Podcasts & Interviews
Beyond 6 Seconds
Long-form conversation on schizophrenia, advocacy, recovery, and public storytelling.
Survivor Shift
Discussion on psychosis, identity, stigma, and rebuilding a meaningful life after psychiatric crisis.
Friends With Wheels
Short-form interview focused on lived experience advocacy and mental health awareness.
We Need More Of This
Conversation exploring mental health, human connection, and public dialogue around serious mental illness.
Upcoming Podcast Features
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- Community Psychiatry Podcast
- Success is Subjective
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“With her captivating and vulnerable storytelling, she helps audiences empathize with the confusion and loneliness of psychosis, while explaining the damaging impact of stigma on diagnosis and treatment. Sally provides a compelling first-person perspective on schizophrenia spectrum illnesses that challenges misconceptions and encourages better support.”
DOCUMENTARY & FILM PROJECTS
Voices Magnified: Mental Health Crisis
A+E Networks documentary featuring lived experience perspectives on mental health and recovery.
Upcoming Boehringer Ingelheim Documentary
Featured participant in an upcoming documentary project exploring serious mental illness and lived experience advocacy.
Public Conversations &
Social Impact
Sally’s advocacy content on social media has reached hundreds of thousands of people, sparking conversations among clinicians, advocates, caregivers, and individuals with lived experience of serious mental illness.
Through personal storytelling, commentary, and public education, her posts explore psychosis, stigma, recovery, healthcare systems, and the realities of living with schizophrenia-spectrum symptoms — often generating thoughtful discussion across both mental health professionals and lived experience communities.
Media Topics & Areas of Expertise
Sally is available for interviews, podcasts, documentaries, panels, and media commentary on topics related to psychosis, schizophrenia, recovery, stigma, and mental health systems.
- Schizophrenia & psychosis
- Serious mental illness
- Recovery & identity
- Mental health stigma
- Healthcare trauma
- Psychiatric hospitalization
- Crisis de-escalation
- Therapeutic relationships
- Psychosis-informed care
- Lived experience advocacy
- Mental health systems & culture
- Patient perspectives in psychiatry
- Disability & invisible illness
- Media representation of serious mental illness
For Media & Interview
Requests
Sally is available for podcast appearances, media interviews, documentaries, panels, and speaking engagements related to psychosis, schizophrenia, stigma, recovery, and the human side of mental health care.
Whether speaking with clinicians, journalists, advocacy organizations, or the broader public, she brings a perspective grounded in both lived experience and systems-level insight.
