When a person walks into a medical facility, hospital, or otherwise, they walk right past the gift shop. Usually, people...
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Adversity is something that we’re guaranteed to encounter periodically; and there’s no getting around that. We’re all prone to encountering various...
Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com Seemingly uncontrollable and unpredictable anger is a problem for some people with mental health condition. As...
Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com So, I read an article today on the Mighty titled: ‘I Have a Mental Illness....
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Trick or treat! Want fish or meat? Can this be beat? Not from my seat....
The readers of Mental Health Affairs should know and be fully aware that I have a mental health disorder. My...
There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community as a peer. In this land,...
Tired of politics? So am I! This is why I decided to get away from politics and go to Mental...
Without question, all of us involved with the mental health system, treatment or peer advocacy, and those with a vested...
Has life gone to shit? More importantly, are therapists saying 'be okay' with your situation regardless? As Dr....
I woke up the next morning in my new strange room and my new strange bed. The room was small...
As I continue to mature and age along with my schizophrenia diagnosis, I think about how the passage of time...
Fifty one years ago we walked the moon Now there are plans to return there soon As time flies by,...
William (Bill) Anthony, Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Professor at Boston University has died. He was...
“Carrying a mental health diagnosis without social support or the skill to evaluate which supports can be considered true...
I am a consumer of mental health services. I am also a licensed social worker. I am a professional. I’ve...
I have experienced heartache, grief, hallucinations, and the chaos of my mismanaged altered state on my personal and academic life...
So, I was just reading an article by Neesa Suncheuri called: How My Schizoaffective Disorder Helps Me Help Others In...
As 2020 fast approaches, I can’t help but think its necessary to reflect on what was the most ambitious, self-directed,...
Similar to the rape of slaves by their white owners in the United States and elsewhere, the forced treatment of...
