Volunteering is willingly working on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gains.
Category: Self Help
HARPs at 5 Years: What Have We Learned?
The state agencies cited are by no means the only entities working to achieve these goals
Your typical ‘crazy’ person or ‘nutbag’
I seem to remember a day when different was both a good thing and a bad thing.
Undiagnosed (Part One): Why Was I Given a Psychiatric Diagnosis?
My parents were taught that “love” was the same as “abuse”; and sadly, it has always been that way.
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.
Combating STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION
The words STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION make our overall situations exceedingly tricky.
Theories Contextualizing Dual Relationships
The worker and the person being ‘worked on’ are in a binary relationship.
THANKSGIVING MEAL AND FUN, FOR SOME?
Just another day I’ll probably want to forget.
The Doors of Perception
I have a muse, her name is Naimh
The Early Warning System
I want to introduce a concept called the Early Warning System
I was just following orders…
“I was just following orders.” The Nuremberg defense, just following orders, Due Obedience, or by the German phrase Befehl ist Befehl (“an order is an order”). This
Community Health (re)Discovered: Addendum on the New Gold Standard
Neo-Institutionalization is covert, insidious, and must be stopped at all costs!
Sleeping Amid the Ruins
I have insomnia, and only sometimes feel somnolent.
I’m a Social Worker: My Mental Health and Well-being Have Been Put to the Test by COVID-19
Working together, I am fully convinced this crisis will only embolden our mission and strengthen our skills further in the social work profession.
ELECTION DAY WITH OCD
ARIZONA, GEORGIA, NEVADA, PENNSYLVANIA LEANING TO BIDEN ALASKA, NORTH CAROLINA LEANING TO TRUMP Hello everyone, and welcome back to Election Central, coming from an undisclosed
Pass the Bill
Once published, the bill would provide and justify my admission to the graduate program.
SUGARS , FATS, and SWEEETS
I would stop at nothing to encourage Dorothea’s weight gain until she felt too uncomfortable with her appearance to look for love elsewhere.
MORE BETRAYAL
I lost my erection immediately.
ANXIETY: SIMILAR FOR HAMLET AND FOR US
Keep in mind everyone, anxieties, and Mental Health Issues are not death sentences.
I am the Revisionist
“I just want to be somebody!”