Recovery Is A Journey: How To Use Your Lived Experience To Help You Heal
You are the expert on your lived experience
I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments
My life as an Artist with Psychosis
My time playing was plagued by paranoia and hallucinations in the meantime.
Breaking The Rules Saved A Man’s Life
I told him he “looked like shit” and asked if he had slept or eaten.
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. […]
Upward mobility: Steering recovery in the right direction
The vehicle can crash on its way to point B and not make it to its destination
Lived experience as a self-diagnostic tool
I would like to explore my own lived experience with first-onset psychosis
Reflections on ‘Peerness’, Social Work and Supported Housing
I love this work
Introducing: Urban Space and Race
Starting the week of April 4, 2021, I will be posting weekly episodes of a series called “Urban Space and Race”
VOLUNTEERING FOR OUR MENTAL HEALTH
I am aware that not all volunteer jobs lead to paid employment
Preventing, Predicting, & Dismantling Problems Ahead
Asking yourself: “What issues seem to pop up consistently?”
The SPOA (SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS) System – Reform and Revise
Under the auspices of the local DCMH, the county entry points use SPOA/SPOE (Single Point of Access/Entry), filled out by clinicians applying for services for their patients.
Neo-Institutionalization: The Overregulation of Community Mental Health
Neo-institutionalization evolved and came into being out of the clumsy rollout of de-institutionalization policies in the 1970 and 1980s.
The Doors of Perception
I have a muse, her name is Naimh
Do you want ‘Total’ Recovery?
Everyday will be a fight. Everything a weapon in your arsenal against your illness.
Language and Stigma: The Objectification of Mental Illness
‘Othering’ serves to not only create an object of hatred but also of people’s discrimination.
The Benefits of Taking Inventory
Planning for the future means knowing what went wrong and why,?
Learned Helplessness Must be Stopped🔴
One of my biggest struggles as a social worker in human services is challenging learned helplessness.
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