Wales High High School: First Diagnosis
A front-row view of High School in the early 2000s
ADULTS SHOULD CRY MORE OFTEN
I suggest adults cry more often
Going to Social Work school with a Schizophrenia diagnosis
Careful about managing my schizophrenia symptoms
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 […]
An Effort To Explain “Psychosis”
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
Exercising the Right to Speak Out
Clinicians must respect our rights
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.
INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL
We need to discuss Independence
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.
Melancholy
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
When Creativity Calls, When Your Alibi is Art
Around the same time I registered for class I walked into a shrink’s office
My journey in mental health housing and recommendations for change and reform
Those of us with mental illness know full well that there are many challenges required of us. Acquiring and maintaining stable housing is one of the biggest challenges of them all. With a complicated condition, the healing journey can be difficult and even more dangerous without stable housing. […]
Plan B: Relapse and reconstitution
Like most thoughts surrounding fear, paranoia, and anxious thinking, they all snowball
Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
Eleven years and no progress
I would later find out that cases like Minerva exist everywhere, and she is no more unique than her biography is to other people with a mental health disorder who share their story.
Reflections on Mental Health treatment: Recommendations for reform
My overreactions were to behaviors I considered as threatening
Reflections on ‘Peerness’, Social Work and Supported Housing
I love this work
The ‘Sign’, ‘Signified’ and “Psychosis’: The Intersection of Language and Psychosis
Ultimately, the symptoms are overwhelming and become so profound that life becomes too distant and unrecognizable to live without incident.
Lack of caring can create unthinkable tragedy
I find it problematic to count all the regrets I have had throughout my life.
The relationship between “Inner work” and Symptom Management
Resolution of inner conflicts has a direct impact on how my life has unfolded
The ‘Point’ Person: Care-Coordination
Being a leader means knowing the immediate mental status of their patients
SNL’s ‘LOCO’ Speaks a Truth about ‘Displays’ rooted in Mental Illness
hen the worker finds him or herself front and center in the life of the client. Becoming the object of their desire and madness, emotions and even feelings of safety become subsumed into the client’s new playground.
The ‘truth’ about ‘fuctional’ impairments
Noone who read my writing can deny that I believe in recovery
Selfies Rule In the Psycho World
Here we have the emotionally disturbed person in all his narcissistic glory scheming for attention.
The Early Warning System
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
Mental Health Affairs 
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