When everything moves in the wrong direction, I recommend taking on a stance I term total recovery—the complete mobilization of your resources to maximize the potential for your gains in healing.
BOOK REVIEW: A PAUSE IN THE WESTERN RHYTHM by Ember Manos-Belle
Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them in the trauma and grief she has endured in a domineering Arabic “courtship”
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Seeking the help of a Tertiary Care Hospital
I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of these precious stops in the system of care as levels of hope.
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BOOK REVIEW: Life with Voices by Dmitriy Gutkovich
Life with Voices: A Guide for Harmony by Dmitriy Gutkovich is a complex, detail-oriented users’ manual for the Voice Hearing community and voice hearers.
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Inside the Unit
I woke up the next morning in my new strange room and my new strange bed.
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The Queen and Her Baby
I went inside the house, asked Dr. H for her phone, and dialed 911
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Preface to University on Watch: Crisis in the Academy (J PETERS)
I am a rhetoric scholar and a person living with schizophrenia
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The Peer Standard⚖️
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.
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Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
Objectification has been mobilized to create and propagate lies and other “isms”
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Interdisciplinary parity: Which is the right clinical pathway forward?
Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Breakdown’ by Lynn Nanos
At the root of it, these case examples, while vivid, and telling of the extreme dysfunction in the system, are extremely black and white, with little grey area for clinical interpretation in terms of direction in the provision of patient care and treatment.
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JUNE IS BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER, … MAYBE NOT!
“June is bustin’ out all over”, is a song from the musical, “Carousel”. Yes, but …
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(Re)-Defining the Language of Mental Health EVEN Further
How can we best further refine the language around mental health?
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The Great Stingie War
In the end, it was the sheer size and strength of the stingies that overtook the sheer volume and numbers we had behind us.
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Shock and Awe (from Univ. on Watch: REMASTERED edition)
Book excerpt from university on watch remastered edition
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Ian’s Time in the Limelight & Special Education
Two chapters from Wales Middle School
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BOOK REVIEW: Climbing toward November
Book Review of Climbing Toward November by Ember Manos-Belle
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Cutting. Emotional Numbness and Pain. (Content/Trigger warning🔴)
Instead, physical pain and lots of it began emerged from cutting myself.
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City Voices Asks You to Get Involved
CityVoices1995@gmail.com or visit http://www.cityvoicesonline.org
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Auschwitz and the the Liberation of Ruth
“We”re survivors”, Ruth said, reminding me yet again that this too shall pass. I worked …
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The War-Time Social Worker
There is a reason why you bring on the war time social worker into the clinical picture
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From Madness to Healing and back again. The Odyssey through the Toxic Connective Tissue
I have become the very social enigma that evokes fear amongst his own peers
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The Peer Support System Within Mental Health Is Broken and We Need to Fix It
I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social worker. …
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Speech Process then and now, and First Onset Psychosis
I have not gone about changing the way I handle things because I simply wanted to be spontaneous and change things up.
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What does Best Practices really mean when it comes to Mental Health treatment?
who are these webinars and conferences for anyway?
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Robocop 2
This move delves deeper into the psychological makeup of Robocop’s command center
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Wales High High School: First Diagnosis (A First Look🤓)
Introduction Sometimes a school crisis erupts on a high school campus unexpectedly. Other times, there …
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2010-2020 A Decade of “Returns” and New Directions💫
As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what …
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The House Negro: Remastered
I am suggesting the peer is the allegory of the American South’s mulatto in a world where animalism has supplanted reason for hate.
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is Mental Illness a disability?
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
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The Importance of Choice
“You’re not easy to serve,” the director of care management said
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From The Revisionist: Rise of the Prosumer
“In the future, further work should deconstruct categories of medicine, psychiatry, and social work and …
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Why we Adapt
When my illness first struck in 2003 and then again in 2008 I was extremely bitter and angry.
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J. Peters has always been “Watching”
I want to make it very much known to all that read this, that J. …
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Lost Chapter of UOW: Bombs over New London University
The next step in Contesting Admission seemed rather obvious to me. Pummel the English Department …
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The Kindness Rocks Project
The Kindness Rocks Project, founded by Megan Murphy, is about discovering the beauty and profound …
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Who exactly is J. Peters?
putting “language on notice” (University on Watch, J Peters) from now until the end of time
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In Solidarity with J Peters
Known as University on Watch day, February 28th, honors the legacy of J. Peters in …
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The future of J. Peters and the next book
There is no mistaking it. The Revisionist, the third installment in the J. Peters series …
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This is the Ending I Always Wanted to Write for University on Watch
The dew on campus was moist with retribution. Jacques Peters kneeled on on the grass …
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The J Peters Reality Tour🤷♂️
I’ve been getting a lot of questions, and I mean a lot, about the status …
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The Revisionist✍️: Rise of the Prosumer (Chapters 1&2)
Preface The Revisionist describes events I experienced beginning in 2008, the year that I graduated …
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Decriminalizing Mental Illness👿
This article was originally published in NAMI’s the Advocate Spring 2019
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The Revisionist: rise of the prosumer, axioms, and future directions in Mental Health Affairs
When I first began writing about mental health, and topics concerning my own experience with …
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Interview with J. Peters: Small Fingernails Even Less Love
Interviewer: I am here with J. Peters, author of University on Watch and Small Fingernails. …
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Mentally Ill in the Catskills of New York😇
I have traveled all over the world. Before, after, and during my most psychotic episodes, …
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University on Watch: Crisis in the Academy (Authorhouse , J. Peters 2019), The Second Editon
To get right to it, I always felt University on Watch was unfinished. I am …
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Lost UOW chapter: $50 dollar bills for Recovery
My perception was shifting everyday. At first the shift was gradual, eventually dramatically altered. The …
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Lost Chapter of University on Watch: The History of Rhetorical Theory
The success of Contesting Admission hinged upon my ability to make such waves in …
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Lost Chapter of University on Watch “The Dying Man”
After moving into my new home, I truly wanted to make it place of self-care, …
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New “Lost Chapter” Chapter of University on Watch: Register Co-sign Arrest
Handcuffed in front of my house, with broken glass from my car all over the …
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What keeps me pushing forward?
I am field instructor for graduate and undergraduate student in social work going for their …
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My Ferret Clausewitz and my last pet in Binghamton
My last pet in Binghamton was a ferret named Clausewitz. While I often don’t speak …
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The Revisionist✍️
Far too many stories and firsthand accounts of recovery are terminal and end with a …
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New Freedom🛠: The Brave Experiment🎭
Only then can we achieve Third Freedom and our future codependence.
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The Trilogy 📚3️⃣
The time is upon us! I need to address the ongoing rumors circulating around my …
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🅱️iologic Theory
Research must be wholly beneficial to the public, it must be free and rife for …
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Use of Metaphors in the Therapy office 🕵️♂️
The problem runs as deep as what practitioners face when practicing psychotherapy
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Our Health and Identity: Choosing Happiness☯️
Our evolution is not a gift bestowed by good fortune
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Addressing Symptoms: Stilted Language, Perseveration, Word Salad
To this day, my speech continues to heal, and I am being more vigilant these days about the quality and content of wording and status of my language.
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The Future of Peer Movement: A House Divided Cannot Stand
“A house divided cannot stand” Abraham Lincoln They are familiar words that defined a period …
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Can I Spit in your Lemon Cake?
During my first inpatient psychiatric experience as an adolescent I discovered that snack time was …
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Complications and Contestations of Practicing Radical Acceptance
This article explores symptoms that complicate interpersonal relationships and interfere with pro-social interactions
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Socialization and Support for those Carrying a Diagnosis: Preparing Friends and Relatives with the Resources to be Allies in Recovery
Preparing all system supports with a realistic clinical picture might just preserve the feelings of those with a diagnosis trying to move forward in their recovery
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My Experience in Recovery, Healing & Psychotherapy Interventions in Mental Health
Max refers to his stance on recovery in his journal articles as “Too big to fail.”
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Understanding the Role of Support when Living with a Chronic and Persistent Mental Health Disorder
As I continue to mature and age along with my schizophrenia diagnosis, I think about …
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Obituary: William Anthony, 77
William (Bill) Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor at Boston …
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Mcdaggot’s Demise
Mcdaggot moved from receptionist job to secretarial positions but never seemed to make it past an assistant to someone more capable and better suited for the stronger and more lofty position.
