SPOTLIGHT: CRISIS INTERVENTION AND THE 988 ROLLOUT
I recommend having police, social workers, and peers work side by side
I recommend having police, social workers, and peers work side by side
Joy comes in all forms and feels transcendent wherever I experience Life, with or without a mental illness.
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 […]
Psychotherapy’s primary focus should not be symptom management
I try my best to deal with the cold
I believe in self-determination
Most people don’t realize something is wrong with their thinking
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments
This trend defies the age-old image of ‘mentally ill’ folks pacing around outside their treatment center or a hospital smoking like chimneys
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
The OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its creation helping and supporting all Brazilian peopl
After Francisco’s passing family started researching and seeking the truth behind Francisco’s sudden death, they learned that he was not the only victim and was not an isolated case.
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a 23 years old young man with a history of intellectual disabilities. According to his mother: ‘the police, after killing Hamilton Cesar with the three shots, police officers dragged […]
Vavá is a young man with the mental disorder Schizophrenia
One hot summer day, we are basking in the sunshine with SPF30 lotion all over our bodies, but it is not enough. Temperature is approaching 95 degrees, and the humidity is about the same. Sun is vital at this hour. Going in and out of the pool, the […]
In society, “reality” is a cultural construct defined by the majority of that culture
if we can’t see these behaviours in ourselves, how would we describe them in other people
I was led to believe I would be forever “sick” no matter how successful my recovery or how creative my writing production.
We need to discuss Independence
However, my efforts were not always enough, and on two occasions, I was given rental violations due to my disorganized apartment.
The mind cannot literally draw a blank until you’ve mastered the art.
Sufferers from ‘depression’ have fearful difficulties in trying to come off antidepressants because they revert to their involutional melancholia.
Around the same time I registered for class I walked into a shrink’s office
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