And tomorrow, we will be what we are today
Everyone knows you have problems
I have worked at various levels of the mental health system
Gratitude is closely associated with our mental health
I've been in treatment for severe mental illness my entire adult life.
We forgive and forget. Mostly.
Issues of Longevity and Mental Health issues There is no question people with a...
2022 must be a time of change
There is tectonic shift in mental health language
is treatment not getting to the root of your issues?
Patients are triggered by treatment providers without empathy
Operation Clausewitz was the German solution to the military situation in Europe in 1945
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory...
Careful about managing my schizophrenia symptoms
My mistake was giving up on life
This trend defies the age-old image of 'mentally ill' folks pacing around outside their...
We can learn together that we are stronger even in the face of natural...
I told him, point-blank, that Medicaid doesn't pay for out-of-state trips to the ER
Relationship abuse occurs across a broad spectrum of the population
Suppose you cannot maintain safety with yourself or with others.
These are basic levels of self-survival and self-management that I generally understand from my...
Remaining patients in the long-term state psychiatric centres must be discharged and released from...
Here’s the thing: having a normal life shouldn’t be the barometer of how well...
At the root of it, they are pathologizing advocates. I have met them.
Who is the mystery two-some?
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that...
Sometimes, I felt guilty about keeping my mental health to myself.
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor's rights.
Do you know where you were on that fateful day?
With thoughts moving at breakneck speed, at 16, I did not see an end...
The OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its...
This is about you doing you, because no one else can do you better.
The reasons are so multifaceted and nuanced, flagrant, and most assuredly un peers like
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots,...
Dictate what you want to do in life
Vavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
One hot summer day, we are basking in the sunshine with SPF30 lotion all...
I chose a Path of immersion and recovery
Initially, it seemed like an exciting purchase
In society, "reality" is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
My time playing was plagued by paranoia and hallucinations in the meantime.
Clinicians must respect our rights
if we can't see these behaviours in ourselves, how would we describe them in...
I was led to believe I would be forever "sick" no matter how successful...
We need to discuss Independence
However, my efforts were not always enough, and on two occasions, I was given...
Another month ended, and a new one turned and began anew. “Seedlings turn overnight...
'You're different. You're high functioning…'
I told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or...
Cultural re-appropriation is rife and considered business as usual in Western psychiatry
Sufferers from 'depression' have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they...
Around the same time I registered for class I walked into a shrink’s office
Those of us with mental illness know full well that there are many challenges...
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I’VE BEEN DISCHARGED?” “YOU’VE MISSED TWO SESSIONS. WE TALKED ABOUT...
I think it’s important to ask: when I say “I need you,” what am I...
With therapy every other week and medication from a psychiatrist monthly, his life has...
I have several plans in place for my doctors for life preservation.
He learned different ways to manage his symptoms or whatever was needed to make...
The vehicle can crash on its way to point B and not make it...
Like most thoughts surrounding fear, paranoia, and anxious thinking, they all snowball
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
Before I came to my senses, he was restrained in a crash car.
Peers, through the act of self-disclosure, reveal their lived experience at work in the...
From an illness of the soul to the mind, medicalization has crept into mental...
I would later find out that cases like Minerva exist everywhere, and she is...
My overreactions were to behaviors I considered as threatening
he client, the same one I requested be transferred, attempted suicide the night before.
I love this work
I find it problematic to count all the regrets I have had throughout my...
Starting the week of April 4, 2021, I will be posting weekly episodes of...
Some students fall into a social "no-fly zone"
I am aware that not all volunteer jobs lead to paid employment
Resolution of inner conflicts has a direct impact on how my life has unfolded
The mental health movement was a civil rights movement, but what happened?
Being a leader means knowing the immediate mental status of their patients
Asking yourself: "What issues seem to pop up consistently?"
hen the worker finds him or herself front and center in the life of...
she is obsessively washing her hands while sleepwalking due to guilt.
Success and failure are different for each of us, but we do strive for...
Either we disband every manual out there in mental health, or we must only...
Mr. Lewis dishes out recovery in fabulously palatable forward-thinking pieces of narration and encouragement
ACT is a ‘third wave’ behaviour therapy approach with a supposedly ‘expanded perspective on...
That is why I took all the pills; to make me better.
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or...
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve...
My parents were taught that “love” was the same as “abuse”; and sadly, it...
Neo-institutionalization evolved and came into being out of the clumsy rollout of de-institutionalization policies...
Look, look to the year ahead COVID19 is about all that was said Unfortunately...
Adios, arrivederci, au revoir, shalom, ciao, goodbye.
All of them say goodbye, but they say...
Do Not RESUSCITATE, PLEASE. DNR orders, or Do Not Resuscitate orders, aren’t very tricky...
Amid the struggle, heartache, loss, betrayal, and disappointment can be not easy to find...
The words STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION make our overall situations exceedingly tricky.
The worker and the person being 'worked on' are in a binary relationship.
I have a muse, her name is Naimh
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
Are you complicit in using similar rhetoric to achieve your aim and hide your...
Why are these the poster patients of AOT? Because the most severely 'disordered' folks...
In 2020, sports is not like it used to be
I have insomnia, and only sometimes feel somnolent.
ARIZONA, GEORGIA, NEVADA, PENNSYLVANIA LEANING TO BIDEN ALASKA, NORTH CAROLINA LEANING TO TRUMP Hello...
“You’re like the mother of healing…in the world, Silvia!” I told her.
Keep in mind everyone, anxieties, and Mental Health Issues are not death sentences.
Too often it seems we are trapped in our own ignorance, mistakes, and deficits. ...
Finding the self, soul’s truth is essential for spiritual life.
"I just want to be somebody!”
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
When a person walks into a medical facility, hospital, or otherwise, they walk right...
Adversity is something that we’re guaranteed to encounter periodically
Seemingly uncontrollable and unpredictable anger is a problem for some people with mental health condition. As...
I was first introduced to interdisciplinary studies and trans-concepts as a student in literature and film...
People that rate highly on the GAF are termed ‘high-functioning’
Struggling to construct a new viable product, OCP fumbles with the development and production...
In my profession particularly, the helping field, and for all of us that simply...
Knowing that COVID19 has disrupted many of our plans and holiday celebrations, so why...
Patients want to know how they will survive after their workers
retire or move...
People with mental health issues have experienced some form of "STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION."
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
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...
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...
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with...
The words used to talk about mental health matter.
The only issue is what constitutes 'help'? Professionals in mental health cant agree.
Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards...
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...
HI EVERYONE! My name is Howard Diamond. Starting in November 2017, I have been...
Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them...
I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey...
Why can't we all get along?
Life with Voices: A Guide for Harmony by Dmitriy Gutkovich is a complex, detail-oriented users’...
'Othering' serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people's...
Thinking about progress is critical for both consumers and practitioners
At the root of it, these case examples, while vivid, and telling of the...
I know nothing about where Dr. H is today.
Whatever the stressor, life's negative turns can be due to the impact of mental...
“June is bustin’ out all over”, is a song from the musical, “Carousel”. Yes,...
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...
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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I worked alongside Ruth at a mental health clinic down in the bario, 3rd Avenue.
There is a reason why you bring on the war time social worker into...
I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social...
“I’m on Lexington and Fifth, darling”
Actually, Cynthia, I’m on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico
who are these webinars and conferences for anyway?
When my illness first struck in 2003 and then again in 2008 I was...
Planning for the future means knowing what went wrong and why,?
The Kindness Rocks Project, founded by Megan Murphy, is about discovering the beauty and...
ve been getting a lot of questions, and I mean a lot, about the...
Preface The Revisionist describes events I experienced beginning in 2008, the year that I...
This article was originally published in NAMI’s the Advocate Spring 2019
When I first began writing about mental health, and topics concerning my own experience...
Peters: A very small clique. My friends from college. At New London University....
Why did privileged me want to vacation with Westchester county'smost chronic people living in...
I am field instructor for graduate and undergraduate student in social work going for...
There is nothing more profound than healing and recovery from extreme perilous circumstances and...
Pet ownership is a tremendous responsibility. Owning a pet is not only a responsibility...
Far too many stories and firsthand accounts of recovery are terminal and end with...
Only then can we achieve Third Freedom and our future codependence.
The time is upon us! I need to address the ongoing rumors circulating around...
I have been accused of several crimes, socially unacceptable behaviors, and a litany of...
Research must be wholly beneficial to the public, it must be free and rife...
When you carry a mental health diagnosis, you are in almost constant fear of...
I have a framed portrait of the Titanic in my mental health private practice. Many people...
his writer has a profound fascination with attention-seeking behavior(s). Also, profoundly astute at capturing...
In April of that Spring, I was not only receiving assistance through the disabilities...
Citing and awarding merit for people beleiving in my recovery.
Fully alive means more than just framing the world in more positive terms.
To this day, my speech continues to heal, and I am being more vigilant...
Most people do not realize that there is no such thing as high-functioning.
The vision in his mind is of a Brave Experiment.
This is the climax scene. Everyone is here for your big finish”. I was...
I would be at this disposal and will of these poorly trained and quick-tempered...
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOICE AND FREEDOM IN CHOOSING OUR CARE HAS BECOME A RIGHT.
Our allies, collateral contacts, and both natural and artificial supports are all susceptible to...
I highly recommend taking every chance to heal to expect good rejuvenating outcomes.
Breakthrough symptoms can be very disturbing and demoralising
Slowly, I learned not everyone shared in my philosophy of recovery.
There are rules for participation in treatment on the level of common Article 31...
Some things are too important to disappear or die off.
Ultimately, there will be times when you have to live with unresolved symptoms.
Have you lost all control in your life, or does it feel that way?
Preparing all system supports with a realistic clinical picture might just preserve the feelings...
Max refers to his stance on recovery in his journal articles as “Too big...