Establishing the 1st International Treaty for Rights and Duties in Mental Health
Experience makes us see the importance of seeking standardized protocols in the treatment and daily maintenance of people in mental
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Experience makes us see the importance of seeking standardized protocols in the treatment and daily maintenance of people in mental
Continue readingMental Health Affairs has always been an international mission at its core. Our vision is a final solution ⚡️⚡️. After
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Continue readingDelusions put the ‘crazy’ in madness. Delusions can carve out the imaginary and marry it in misleading ways with a
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Continue readingWhen I arrived at their E&R, I was taken into a room and told I was no longer welcome at the clinic and needed to go elsewhere for services.
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Continue readingRed flag! You feel it in your gut. Something is not correct.
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Continue readingGratitude is closely associated with our mental health
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Continue readingWe forgive and forget. Mostly.
Continue readingIssues of Longevity and Mental Health There is no question people with a severe mental health diagnosis die on average
Continue reading2022 must be a time of change
Continue readingThere is tectonic shift in mental health language
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Continue readingThis trend defies the age-old image of ‘mentally ill’ folks pacing around outside their treatment center or a hospital smoking like chimneys
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Continue readingHere’s the thing: having a normal life shouldn’t be the barometer of how well a person is doing in recovery.
Continue readingAt the root of it, they are pathologizing advocates. I have met them.
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Continue readingI had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
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Continue readingThe mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
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Continue readingWith thoughts moving at breakneck speed, at 16, I did not see an end to the downward spiral. I was
Continue readingThe OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its creation helping and supporting all Brazilian peopl
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Continue readingOn June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a
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Continue readingVavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
Continue readingOne hot summer day, we are basking in the sunshine with SPF30 lotion all over our bodies, but it is
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Continue readingI was led to believe I would be forever “sick” no matter how successful my recovery or how creative my writing production.
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Continue readingHowever, my efforts were not always enough, and on two occasions, I was given rental violations due to my disorganized apartment.
Continue readingAnother month ended, and a new one turned and began anew. “Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers …one season following another”,
Continue readingI told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or eaten.
Continue readingCultural re-appropriation is rife and considered business as usual in Western psychiatry
Continue readingSufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
Continue readingAround the same time I registered for class I walked into a shrink’s office
Continue readingThose of us with mental illness know full well that there are many challenges required of us. Acquiring and maintaining
Continue reading“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I’VE BEEN DISCHARGED?” “YOU’VE MISSED TWO SESSIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT ATTENDANCE, AND IN THIS CLINIC, IF
Continue readingI think it’s important to ask: when I say “I need you,” what am I saying?
Continue readingWith therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has improved
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Continue readingLike most thoughts surrounding fear, paranoia, and anxious thinking, they all snowball
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Continue readingBefore I came to my senses, he was restrained in a crash cart.
Continue readingPeers, through the act of self-disclosure, reveal their lived experience at work in the agency all the time.
Continue readingFrom an illness of the soul to the mind, medicalization has crept into mental health in all ways.
Continue readingI would later find out that cases like Minerva exist everywhere, and she is no more unique than her biography is to other people with a mental health disorder who share their story.
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Continue readinghe client, the same one I requested be transferred, attempted suicide the night before.
Continue readingUltimately, the symptoms are overwhelming and become so profound that life becomes too distant and unrecognizable to live without incident.
Continue readingI find it problematic to count all the regrets I have had throughout my life.
Continue readingStarting the week of April 4, 2021, I will be posting weekly episodes of a series called “Urban Space and Race”
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Continue readingResolution of inner conflicts has a direct impact on how my life has unfolded
Continue readingThe mental health movement was a civil rights movement, but what happened?
Continue readingBeing a leader means knowing the immediate mental status of their patients
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Continue readinghen the worker finds him or herself front and center in the life of the client. Becoming the object of their desire and madness, emotions and even feelings of safety become subsumed into the client’s new playground.
Continue readingshe is obsessively washing her hands while sleepwalking due to guilt.
Continue readingSuccess and failure are different for each of us, but we do strive for the former
Continue readingEither we disband every manual out there in mental health, or we must only use the DSM-5
Continue readingMr. Lewis dishes out recovery in fabulously palatable forward-thinking pieces of narration and encouragement
Continue readingACT is a ‘third wave’ behaviour therapy approach with a supposedly ‘expanded perspective on how to guide clients to skilfully self-regulate.emotional distress and conflicting states of mind’,
Continue readingThat is why I took all the pills; to make me better.
Continue readingNoone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
Continue readingVolunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
Continue readingThe state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
Continue readingMy parents were taught that “love” was the same as “abuse”; and sadly, it has always been that way.
Continue readingNeo-institutionalization evolved and came into being out of the clumsy rollout of de-institutionalization policies in the 1970 and 1980s.
Continue readingLook, look to the year ahead COVID19 is about all that was said Unfortunately thousands of humans are dead Still
Continue readingAdios, arrivederci, au revoir, shalom, ciao, goodbye.
All of them say goodbye, but they say much, much more…
Continue readingDo Not RESUSCITATE, PLEASE. DNR orders, or Do Not Resuscitate orders, aren’t very tricky when it comes to the law
Continue readingAmid the struggle, heartache, loss, betrayal, and disappointment can be not easy to find the strength and motivation to keep going in life.
Continue readingThe words STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION make our overall situations exceedingly tricky.
Continue readingIt subsumes the patient and encircles him or her in its grasp.
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