STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION ABUSED BY MEDIA
Worst of all, the media shows people with mental illness as incompetent, dangerous, and undeserving, which deters everyone from understanding each other. Enough is enough!
Month: September 2020
From Madness to Healing and back again: An Odyssey through the Toxic Connective Tissue
I have become the very social enigma that evokes fear amongst his own peers
The Peer Standard⚖️
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community.
Assesing the impact of ‘First Episode Psychosis’ on Speech
I have not gone about changing the way I handle things because I simply wanted to be spontaneous and change things up.
Use of Metaphors in the Therapy office 🕵️♂️
The problem runs as deep as what practitioners face when practicing psychotherapy
Total Recovery
Everyday will be a fight. Everything a weapon in your arsenal against your illness.
Choosing Happiness: Health across the Life span
Our evolution is not a gift bestowed by good fortune
The Fear of Self-Disclosure🗣
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
Dating💘 with a diagnosis☣️
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of self-disclosure than healthy courting.