Goals For Happiness and Fulfillment
Reaching your goals takes energy
REVIEW: MAN OF THE HOUSE
Relationship abuse occurs across a broad spectrum of the population.
Wales High High School: First Diagnosis
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
7 Ways to Manage Anger
Anger is a universal emotion we can all connect with – it’s simply life. We all get angry; it’s natural, but…
LOCAL ACT OF MENTAL HEALTH HEROISM
I approached the front desk and said, ‘I have a mental Illness.
A CHABAD RESPONSE TO KANYE WEST
God gives us all tests, and Kanye failed the test
Social Networks and their impact on Mental Health
The impact can be scary
SEEING AND HEARING ARE CRITICAL BUT NOT NECESSARY!
Seeing and hearing are only two senses
PANIC IN SENIOR PARK
Take responsibility for your winter years
Peer Specialists: What’s In a Name?
Peers perform the same responsibilities, duties, and tasks as their higher-paid counterparts
Social Connections are Vital for People with SMI
Socializing is a skill set that’s multifaceted
SPOTLIGHT: CRISIS INTERVENTION AND THE 988 ROLLOUT
I recommend having police, social workers, and peers work side by side
Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language
How can we further refine the language around mental health?”
The Original Peer Support Recovery and Coping Skills Workbook & Curriculum
Ushering in a ‘Post-Pat Deegan’ era in recovery rhetoric.
What is the connection between mental illnesses and violence?
Humans kill people for a diversity of reasons.
The CIA and the Belgium Government (AUDIO)
I know nothing about where Dr. H is today.
SCHIZOPHRENIA HAS NOT ROBBED ME OF LIFE’S JOYS
Joy comes in all forms and feels transcendent wherever I experience Life, with or without a mental illness.
MY STORY: MENTAL RELAPSE
I must admit how difficult it has been for me to stay mentally sane.
The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health
The American School of Human Rights will promote the Mental Health Project in all regions of the world
I’m sixty-four, and I’m alive.
My birthday just passed.
The intersection of the Law, Justice, and Mental Health
Law affirms the sense of Justice to be innate
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…
Deputy Director of South American Affairs
Mental Health Affairs has always been an international mission at its core. Our vision is a final solution ⚡️⚡️. After…
CELEBRATING MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH
There are significant reasons for having Mental Health Awareness Month.
GOOD SUPPORT IS VITAL FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH
People battling extreme conditions need support in their lives
Managing Your Mental Health on the Job
How does this factor into managing your mental health on the job?
Help! Mom and Dad Didn’t Teach Me How to Live in This Crazy World
Religious writing offers emotional and spiritual guidance
SELF MANAGING DELUSIONAL SYSTEMS
Delusions put the ‘crazy’ in madness. Delusions can carve out the imaginary and marry it in misleading ways with a…
RETHINKING TREATMENT FOR NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER (NPD)
Psychotherapy’s primary focus should not be symptom management
HOW TO BENEFIT THE MOST FROM YOUR MENTAL HEALTH THERAPY
The ‘work’ or doing ‘work’ in therapy makes the difference in treatment every time
FINDING THE COURAGE TO BREAK FREE
I don’t see a lot of people of color in the world of peer support
TREATMENT FIT WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS
When 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.
How do social workers define help
Social work means answering questions in people’s lives without clear resolution.
Change, compulsion, DRAMA, GUIDE, Health, Howard Diamond, Lifestyle, positive thinking, Transformation
Winter Storm Alert! Are We Prepared?
I try my best to deal with the cold
Winter can be challenging when you have a mental health condition
This article explores the importance of maintaining wellness during the cold winter
New Freedom, The Manifesto of J. Peters
J.Peters came with his brave experiment. And we all became more human.’
On-and-on-and-on-ymous
Sometimes I rabbit on for far too long. Perhaps there should be a Fellowship for people like me. When an…
Recovery and self-Determination
I believe in self-determination
The problem with measuring progress in treatment
Therapists monitor the progress of their patients.
Psychotic ‘Break’ Survival Skill Kit
Most people don’t realize something is wrong with their thinking
Solid Ground and the Rescue Line
Everyone knows you have problems
When Person-Centered Care takes a WRONG turn
I’ve been in treatment for severe mental illness my entire adult life.
Issues of Longevity and Mental Health
Issues of Longevity and Mental Health There is no question people with a severe mental health diagnosis die on average…
Language and Mental Health: Living and Communicating our Lived Experience
There is tectonic shift in mental health language
CASE MANAGEMENT, Diagnosis, Fighting against Mental Illness, health issues, identity, Reform, Systems Issues, THEORY
The Communication and Support That Allows Progress in Treatment
Patients are triggered by treatment providers without empathy
Inside the mindset of defeat
Operation Clausewitz was the German solution to the military situation in Europe in 1945
Going to Social Work school with a Schizophrenia diagnosis
Careful about managing my schizophrenia symptoms
This is a PRO Tobacco Use Argument in Mental Health Settings
This trend defies the age-old image of ‘mentally ill’ folks pacing around outside their treatment center or a hospital smoking like chimneys
Until when? (Full Translation Espanol/Portugues)
We can learn together that we are stronger even in the face of natural catastrophes—human response and action triumphs in the end.
Partying with a Mental Health Disorder
I told him, point-blank, that Medicaid doesn’t pay for out-of-state trips to the ER
RELATIONSHIP ABUSE and DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Relationship abuse occurs across a broad spectrum of the population
How to Self-Manage Our Frustration
Suppose you cannot maintain safety with yourself or with others.
Targeting the clinical grey areas in mental health treatment
Treating clinical ‘symptoms’ is not the biggest clinical issue
SPECIAL REPORT: Re-thinking ‘Extended Care’ units in State Hospital Centers
Remaining patients in the long-term state psychiatric centres must be discharged and released from the eternal holding
How to Define Recovery A Radical Idea
Here’s the thing: having a normal life shouldn’t be the barometer of how well a person is doing in recovery.
Advocates that stigmatize
At the root of it, they are pathologizing advocates. I have met them.
How a brain injury through an accident enabled the help, I deserved but wasn’t getting
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
I am a mental health advocate, but still feel shame about my own struggles at times.
Sometimes, I felt guilty about keeping my mental health to myself.
Change, CLINICAL, complicit, Crisis, FASCISM, Fighting against Mental Illness, Future, health issues, human rights issues, Intervention, LONG TERM CARE, Reform
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
Another September Morn
Do you know where you were on that fateful day?
Healthy fascinations went awry
With thoughts moving at breakneck speed, at 16, I did not see an end to the downward spiral. I was…
Abuse, ACADEMIA, Change, Crisis, Diagnosis, Health, help, human rights issues, Intervention, Reform, Systems Issues
Human Rights Coalition for Latin America Mental Hygiene & Social Justice
The OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its creation helping and supporting all Brazilian peopl
BELIEFS, Change, Craig Lewis, Fighting against Mental Illness, J.PETERS, Muse, Peer, positive thinking, PROSUMER, REALITY TESTING, Stress-free
The Impact of Words on our Psyches
This is about you doing you, because no one else can do you better.
Peers betraying Peers, and Relapse
The reasons are so multifaceted and nuanced, flagrant, and most assuredly un peers like
Abuse, brazil, Change, Crisis, Diagnosis, Fighting against Mental Illness, Health, health issues, human rights issues, Independent Living, Politics, Reform, Systems Issues
Gross Violence Against People with a Mental Health diagnosis in Brazil
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a…
ACADEMIA, Change, CHRONIC CONDITION, depression, DISABILITIES, Future, GUIDE, Health, health issues, identity, Independent Living, J. PETERS, Lifestyle, PROSUMER, self control, Self Help, Site Founder, social worker, Student
Working with a Mental Health diagnosis/disorder
Dictate what you want to do in life
Abuse, ACADEMIA, Change, Crisis, family, Future, Health, health issues, Politics, Reform, Systems Issues
Human Rights Violations in Brazil: The Case of Vavá
Vavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
Cooling Off From the Heat
One hot summer day, we are basking in the sunshine with SPF30 lotion all over our bodies, but it is…
Different Perspective On Schizophrenic Delusion
I chose a Path of immersion and recovery
Calmigo Reviewed: AromaScam?
Initially, it seemed like an exciting purchase
Crisis Interventions: Cops. Peers. What is the right path forward?
The issue that hinges on the docket is Emergency Mental Health
Change, CHRONIC CONDITION, Diagnosis, health issues, identity, Independent Living, Music, Pathway, PROSUMER, Reform, self control, Self Help, Self-Management, Systems Issues, Transformation
My life as an Artist with Psychosis
My time playing was plagued by paranoia and hallucinations in the meantime.
Abuse, Change, Diagnosis, Future, Health, health issues, identity, Peer, Peer Specialist, PROSUMER, Reform, social worker, symptoms
Exercising the Right to Speak Out
Clinicians must respect our rights
Derangement
if we can’t see these behaviours in ourselves, how would we describe them in other people
Effects Of “Broken Brain Syndrome”
I was led to believe I would be forever “sick” no matter how successful my recovery or how creative my writing production.
BELIEFS, Change, CHRONIC CONDITION, Commitment, Fighting against Mental Illness, Future, health issues, identity, Independent Living, Peer Specialist, positive thinking, PROSUMER, Self Help, Self-Management, symptoms, Terms
INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL
We need to discuss Independence
University on Watch: Audiobook Launch
Mental health memoirs seem to vary a bit
CASE MANAGEMENT, CLINICAL, Comorbid, Diagnosis, DISABILITIES, GUIDE, Health, health issues, Lifestyle, LONG TERM CARE, PROSUMER, Self Help, Self-Management, symptoms, THEORY
The Value of Good Complex Case Management for Comorbid Psychiatric Issues
However, my efforts were not always enough, and on two occasions, I was given rental violations due to my disorganized apartment.
Abuse, Childhood Trauma, Diagnosis, Future, identity, MA, Pathway, Peer, Peer Specialist, PROSUMER, Vengeance, Victim
Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life
I told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or eaten.
‘Identity Politics’ and Mental Health
Cultural re-appropriation is rife and considered business as usual in Western psychiatry
