How To Be More Confident: Ditch Your Ego And Trust Yourself
Confidence is about having faith in yourself and your abilities
Addressing the Barriers to Treatment Adherence
When treating patients with serious mental illness (SMI), healthcare professionals need to keep the ultimate goal in mind: achieving better outcomes and improving quality of life. That might sound simple, but the reality can be much more complex – every patient is unique and will respond differently to […]
What It’s Like To Live With A Severe Mental Health Diagnosis
Remission in symptoms can be life-changing.
Distinguishing the Diagnosis from the Person: Why It Matters
Introduction This blog explores why it is essential to distinguish between the person and the diagnosis when discussing mental health. When diagnosed with a mental health condition, it is easy to forget that a person is behind the diagnosis. Clinical diagnosis can lead to misconceptions and negative attitudes […]
Recovery Is A Journey: How To Use Your Lived Experience To Help You Heal
You are the expert on your lived experience
7 Strength-Based Psychotherapy Interventions That Work
Focus on the client’s strengths
How to Manage Self-Harm
Self-harm is a way to cope with difficult emotions
ANXIETY AND FRIENDS BE GONE
You can prevent these symptoms from getting worse
THE MOMENTUM OF RECOVERY FROM A PEER SPECIALIST PERSPECTIVE
Recovery momentum will give you wings to go further
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.
A CHABAD RESPONSE TO KANYE WEST
God gives us all tests, and Kanye failed the test
Peer Specialists: What’s In a Name?
Peers perform the same responsibilities, duties, and tasks as their higher-paid counterparts
Social Connections are Vital for People with SMI
Socializing is a skill set that’s multifaceted
SPOTLIGHT: CRISIS INTERVENTION AND THE 988 ROLLOUT
I recommend having police, social workers, and peers work side by side
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.
SELF MANAGING DELUSIONAL SYSTEMS
Delusions put the ‘crazy’ in madness. Delusions can carve out the imaginary and marry it in misleading ways with a person’s orientation. Symptoms like this complicate and distort our reality and sense of self. Fantasies can remain dormant and not escalate. Other illusions break off and form systems […]
RETHINKING TREATMENT FOR NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER (NPD)
Psychotherapy’s primary focus should not be symptom management
Winter Storm Alert! Are We Prepared?
I try my best to deal with the cold
Recovery and self-Determination
I believe in self-determination
Psychotic ‘Break’ Survival Skill Kit
Most people don’t realize something is wrong with their thinking
I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments
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
How a brain injury through an accident enabled the help, I deserved but wasn’t getting
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
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