MENTAL HEALTH AFFAIRS

In doing so, the crisis is really man made.

I have become the very social enigma that evokes fear amongst his own peers

There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.

I have not gone about changing the way I handle things because I simply wanted to be spontaneous and change…

When I say, or hear, that NAMI doesn't speak for us, it is because they speak for my mother, father,…

The problem runs as deep as what practitioners face when practicing psychotherapy

Labor Day or Labour Day, which is correct?

Everyday will be a fight. Everything a weapon in your arsenal against your illness.

Our evolution is not a gift bestowed by good fortune

Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.

Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of…

I began to hear, think about, and approach the world based on these new and emerging delusions—they pulled me into…

The words used to talk about mental health matter.

This article explores symptoms that complicate interpersonal relationships and interfere with pro-social interactions

Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was when I first agreed…

Hello readers! I am the Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health Affairs, J. PETERS.

From me to everyone reading this article, enjoy August, the rest of this summer and all of the "Days of Our…

HI EVERYONE! My name is Howard Diamond. Starting in November 2017, I have been a New York State Certified Peer…

Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them in the trauma and grief she…

I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of…

Why can't we all get along? 

I woke up the next morning in my new strange room and my new strange bed.

I went inside the house, asked Dr. H for her phone, and dialed 911

I am a rhetoric scholar and a person living with schizophrenia

Objectification has been mobilized to create and propagate lies and other “isms”

Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners

At the root of it, these case examples, while vivid, and telling of the extreme dysfunction in the system, are…

I know nothing about where Dr. H is today.

“June is bustin’ out all over”, is a song from the musical, “Carousel”. Yes, but is June really bustin’ out…

How can we best further refine the language around mental health?

In the end, it was the sheer size and strength of the stingies that overtook the sheer volume and numbers…

Excerpt from University on Watch : REMASTERED

Book excerpt from university on watch remastered edition

Two chapters from Wales Middle School

Book Review of Climbing Toward November by Ember Manos-Belle

Instead, physical pain and lots of it began emerged from cutting myself.

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“We”re survivors”, Ruth said, reminding me yet again that this too shall pass. I worked alongside Ruth at a mental…

There is a reason why you bring on the war time social worker into the clinical picture

I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social worker. I am a professional. I’ve…

“I’m on Lexington and Fifth, darling”

Actually, Cynthia, I’m on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico

That’s Kim, I thought. Shameless to the end. Revisonless.

who are these webinars and conferences for anyway?

This move delves deeper into the psychological makeup of Robocop's command center

As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed,…

I am suggesting the peer is the allegory of the American South’s mulatto in a world where animalism has supplanted…

I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?

“You’re not easy to serve,” the director of care management said

“In the future, further work should deconstruct categories of medicine, psychiatry, and social work and encourage strength based approaches that…

When my illness first struck in 2003 and then again in 2008 I was extremely bitter and angry.

Taking inventory begins by developing a greater appreciation of your personal accomplishments

The peer world is divided

I want to make it very much known to all that read this, that J. Peters has always been watching,…

The next step in Contesting Admission seemed rather obvious to me. Pummel the English Department into submission. In the words…

The Kindness Rocks Project, founded by Megan Murphy, is about discovering the beauty and profound possibilities of hope in acts…

putting “language on notice” (University on Watch, J Peters) from now until the end of time

Known as University on Watch day, February 28th, honors the legacy of J. Peters in academe. In 2008, J. Peters…

There is no mistaking it. The Revisionist, the third installment in the J. Peters series has run into excessive costly…

The dew on campus was moist with retribution. Jacques Peters kneeled on on the grass and felt the wetness of…

ve been getting a lot of questions, and I mean a lot, about the status of the J Peters reality…