The Stigma of Mental Illness: How to Overcome It
Overcoming the stigma of mental illness is not easy
Happy Times Can Lead to a Positive Life
Happiness comes and goes, it is fleeting!
What It’s Like To Live With A Severe Mental Health Diagnosis
Remission in symptoms can be life-changing.
NARCISSISM, RECOVERY, AND MY STORY
I am a survivor
Wales High High School: First Diagnosis
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
LOCAL ACT OF MENTAL HEALTH HEROISM
I approached the front desk and said, ‘I have a mental Illness.
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
ADULTS SHOULD CRY MORE OFTEN
I suggest adults cry more often
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.
I’m sixty-four, and I’m alive.
My birthday just passed.
Solid Ground and the Rescue Line
Everyone knows you have problems
The Communication and Support That Allows Progress in Treatment
Patients are triggered by treatment providers without empathy
I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments
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
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.
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
Healthy fascinations went awry
With thoughts moving at breakneck speed, at 16, I did not see an end to the downward spiral. I was on a band trip with my high school in the nation’s capital. In 1998, I was without sleep for at least 14 straight days. The antics of my […]
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
Peers betraying Peers, and Relapse
The reasons are so multifaceted and nuanced, flagrant, and most assuredly un peers like
The Law does not mean anything to Brazil’s Psychiatric Institutions & Therapists
After Francisco’s passing family started researching and seeking the truth behind Francisco’s sudden death, they learned that he was not the only victim and was not an isolated case.
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 23 years old young man with a history of intellectual disabilities. According to his mother: ‘the police, after killing Hamilton Cesar with the three shots, police officers dragged […]
Working with a Mental Health diagnosis/disorder
Dictate what you want to do in life
Human Rights Violations in Brazil: The Case of Vavá
Vavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
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