I finished watching season 7 of Blacklist, a psychological crazybot about a criminal who has the FBI on a platter, and turned to the next episode of original Star Trek reruns.
Category: Self Help
Goodbye Party at the Office
I haven’t worked in many formal or professional settings. When I first landed at a “”real”” job, it wasn’t the paycheck, status, or new schedule that got me excited to go to work. It was the parties!
Expressly, goodbye parties.
Mcdaggot Surrenders at Life
“I need help,” Mcdaggot admitted.
Adversity and Personal Growth
Adversity is something that we’re guaranteed to encounter periodically
Explosive Behaviors and IED
Seemingly uncontrollable and unpredictable anger is a problem for some people with mental health condition. As a therapist, I diagnose people with intermittent explosive disorder which is a DSM 5 diagnosable condition.
Defeat and Living Another Day
There is an abundance of research out there on the psychology of victory, winning, leadership and all things laden with positivity. What about the psychology of defeat?
Speaking the Language of Recovery
In my profession particularly, the helping field, and for all of us that simply enjoy time spent in others’ companies, there is an unspoken fear that the person we are speaking to won’t listen or isn’t listening.
Releasing the Doctoral Guard
From time to time, and specific chapters of our lives, requiring an influx of creativity and problem-solving, these friends resurface in our lives for various
How to Cope with the loss of a Therapist or Case Manager
Patients want to know how they will survive after their workers
retire or move on to a new position somewhere else in the mental health system.
is Mental Illness a disability?
I want to pose a question: is a mental health disorder a disability?
NAMI doesn’t Speak for US
When I say, or hear, that NAMI doesn’t speak for us, it is because they speak for my mother, father, brother, but not me.
Total Recovery
Everyday will be a fight. Everything a weapon in your arsenal against your illness.
Dating💘 with a diagnosis☣️
Simply stated, dating with a diagnosis is much more complicated, problematic, and riddled with more expectations and appropriate use of self-disclosure than healthy courting.
Excerpt from Small Fingernails: “BLOODY VACATION IN NEW PALTZ”
That was when she revealed to me she was having her period that weekend.
Operation Psych-OUT
Back then, before the last discharge at New York State Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was when I first agreed to this calling….
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief, J. PETERS
Hello readers! I am the Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health Affairs, J. PETERS.
SECOND HALF SUMMER THROUGH TV
From me to everyone reading this article, enjoy August, the rest of this summer and all of the “Days of Our Lives”
HI EVERYONE!
HI EVERYONE! My name is Howard Diamond. Starting in November 2017, I have been a New York State Certified Peer Specialist, and I reside on Long Island. For over twenty-five years, my work life and experiences lie mostly in the Mental Health Field.
BOOK REVIEW: A PAUSE IN THE WESTERN RHYTHM by Ember Manos-Belle
Grace is not afraid to insert her own thoughts and feelings and frame them in the trauma and grief she has endured in a domineering Arabic “courtship”
Seeking the help of a Tertiary Care Hospital
I once understood levels of care as abstractions when sifting through a clinical grey area. I now understand each of these precious stops in the system of care as levels of hope.