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April Alexander

April Alexander is a producer on the National Desk at CBS News and a Hampton University journalism alumna.

Sep 30, 2026

31:15
Is there any way to tell if one came first or one came second or that relationship between the two? How significant is that and how difficult is it to try to peel back and understand what was happening with Nick Reiner?
31:31
Yeah, it will be important to think about diagnosis.
31:35
I think it's often a challenge to think about chicken and egg, which one came first.
31:39
What we do know is for a lot of people, Nick Reiner has been diagnosed with either schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder in his lifetime, meaning that he's had a history of psychotic symptoms matched with mood symptoms such as depression or mania in his history.
31:56
And for a lot of people, that first diagnosis of schizophrenia often appears in early adulthood.
32:01
So whether it's in your late teens to early 20s.
32:05
For a lot of people, when you're having those symptoms, particularly the psychotic symptoms, some people go to self-medicating.

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44:09
Explain that difference and how that would impact the way you would analyze their level of mental illness.

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