Adventure… Celebrating Support and Services for People with Disabilities (SSD)🎗 14 Aug 201820 Aug 2018 At the very end of my semester in undergraduate school, I attended a reception on campus in which I participated in honoring faculty that was special with and dedicated to…
Adventure… University on Watch👀: Mental health, Concerns, and Hygiene 12 Aug 201810 Sep 2018 Sometimes, school crises erupt on college campus's unexpectedly. Other times, there is a slow build up of tension before the crescendo. The crescendo can be violence, hate speech, or any…
Adventure… The Strategist🎱 12 Aug 201814 Aug 2018 There is very little myself or anyone knows about the life or even whereabouts of Dr. H today. I can only speak for ten years ago. And very little information,…
Addressing Symptoms… The Changing of Signs🔮 11 Aug 201811 Aug 2018 I have said before that there is no universal way or signified to capturing or expressing in words the experience of psychosis. I might have been wrong about this claim.…
Adventure… That day I lost my car in Atlantic City (NJ) 11 Aug 201811 Aug 2018 I needed a break from studying, a nightmarish winter session, and not enough sleep. The plan was to meet my friends for a weekend of fun and excitement away from…
Adventure… The Mystique of Psychosis 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Psychosis is experienced by people carrying its active constellation of corresponding and altogether unique symptoms differently. At different times, along a spectrum, psychosis symptoms exist in a dark harmony, sometimes…
Addressing Symptoms… Addressing Symptoms: Extended Metaphors, Ideas-of-Reference 28 Jul 201828 Jul 2018 I was an English major in college. Like many students studying language, I loved words, meaning-making, and using rhetoric to both dazzle and re-orient my listener to whatever I was…
Adventure… Fully Alive💯 28 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 We all have impairments, limitations, and restrictions. However, choosing to live a full life despite our so-called deficits is critical to feeling happy, fulfilled, and complete. The task ahead then…
Adventure… Socializing in the Hospital🏥 28 Jul 201814 Aug 2018 After being admitted to the hospital, and settling down on the the unit as best as possible, changing into hospital garb, there is little to do than to sit, wait…
Adventure… Dismantling state-level psychiatric centres: instituting full community access and integration 14 Jun 201811 Sep 2018 This paper presents a long-overdue proposal to the New York Office of Mental Health (NY-OMH) to close state psychiatric centers and discharge all remaining patients into the community. From long-term…
Adventure… Operation Psych-OUT 7 Jun 201829 Nov 2018 Today, it is just a relic, a hold over, no doubt a living anachronism of the sadism of so called modern medicine & the sins of psychiatry. But that was…
Adventure… The Clinical Gaze 13 May 201811 Jul 2018 Walking into the therapists office, you sit down, look up at your therapist, and behold his or her eyes peering at you and assessing your mental status before you even…
Addressing Symptoms… On the Road to Recovery: From Hospital Discharge to Graduate School in Social Work 12 May 2018 In the summer of 2008, mid-July, I was ready for discharge from Binghamton State Psychiatric Center. Of course, readiness for discharge from a state hospital by no means signals the…